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Blackvein Mining Disaster

Here lie the remains of 50 men and boys of the 142  who died working the Blackvein Risca This 1st day December 1860 A sudden change at God's command and they fell. They had no chance to bid their...

Here lie the remains of 50 men 
and boys of the 142 

who died working the 
Blackvein Risca 
This 1st day 
December 1860

A sudden change at God's command and they fell.

They had no chance to bid their friends 
farewell.

Swift came the last [?] without a warning
given,

And bid them haste to god in heaven.

 

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