instances of corpses being carried to the wrong houses. Almost everyone in the community lost someone in the disaster, with one family on Howell Street losing 11 members: the father, four sons, and six lodgers.

A nine-day inquiry concluded that the deceased had lost their lives through a gas explosion at the Albion colliery, which was augmented by coal dust. However, the jury was not able to come to an agreement over the exact origin over the explosion.

The Colliery was taken over in the 1930s by Powell Duffryn,

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