Printed 21 October 1887.
On Wednesday night, at half-past nine o’clock, four men were at work in the face of the heading at the tunnel now being made for the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway at Blaencwm, using the percussion drills.
Suddenly a terrible explosion occurred, by which, unhappily, one of the men, named John Harris, was killed on the spot. Another man, named William Bryant, was very badly injured having sustained severe cuts about thehead and legs.
The remaining two men, Archibald Jones and Richard Jenkins, were also injured, but not so seriously.
It is believed that some dynamite had been left in a hole which had been fired thirteen and a half hours before, and that by some means this exploded.
The decased was 24 years of age and leaves a widow and two children.
