In the mining community of Silkstone men, boys & girls started work but at about 2 pm a fierce storm started. A warning was sent to the miners, some tried to exit via a drift in Nabbs Wood. Sadly a swollen stream near the entrance burst its banks.A torrent of water poured into the drift and 26 children aged between 7 and 17 were drowned in seconds.
The children were buried on 7th July 1838. The girls in three graves and the boys in four graves.
| Girls | Boys | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Age | Name | Age | |||
| Catherine | Garnet | 8 | James | Burkinshaw | 7 | |
| Sarah | Jukes | 8 | John | Gothard | 8 | |
| Sarah | Newton | 8 | George | Lamb | 8 | |
| Annie | Moss | 9 | William | Walmsley | 8 | |
| Mary | Sellars | 10 | Amos | Wright | 8 | |
| Elizabeth | Clarkson | 11 | George | Barnett | 9 | |
| Elizabeth | Carr | 13 | Eli | Hutchinson | 9 | |
| Hannah | Webster | 13 | John | Simpson | 9 | |
| Elizabeth | Hollin | 15 | George | Burkinshaw | 10 | |
| Ellen | Parker | 15 | Samuel | Horne | 10 | |
| Hannah | Taylor | 17 | James | Turton | 10 | |
| William | Allick | 12 | ||||
| Isaac | Wright | 12 | ||||
| Francis | Hoyland | 13 | ||||
| James | Clarkson | 16 | ||||