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Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 786, 31 January 1871, Page 2

A fatal accident attended -with extraordinary results occurred at the well-known Oaks Colliery, near Barnsley, to a miner uamed Henry Ainsworth, aged 25, who lost his life by a large fall of coal from the roof, which battered his head to pieces. The doceased, who was a very industrious young man, married a woman named Hilton, the widow of one of the 361 men who were killed in the same colliery in 1866, and whose remains, together with about 140 of his comrades, are still in the workings. The deceased had only been married aboutseven months, and leaves a still young widow close upon her confinement, to be supported by the South Yorkshire Mining Association. It is an iucident without parallel in the history of mining operations to find a woman scarcely twenty-five years of age with two husbands lying dead at the same time in the same colliery.