The evening before the disaster, the pile of debris had actually dropped by 10 feet, the height of a basketball hoop. The rails which brought material to the pile, and fallen into a sinkhole This was discovered at 7:30 am and attention to the activity was brought to the supervisor on si...
1966, expecting toenjoy the last dayof school before their midterm break.The night before, 9-year-old Eryl Jones dreamed that school had been canceled for that day, describing "something black came down all over it" to her mother before she left home that morning. ...
A CITY grandmother who grew up near disaster-hit Aberfan has expressed her anger at plans to build on the memorial to the town's dead.Mair Turrell, of St Lawrences Road, Foleshill, Coventry, was brought up in a mining family in Pontlottyn, just a few miles from Aberfan.She moved to ...
The greatest comfort perhaps is silent sympathy. Simeon ben Elazar said, “Do not comfort your fellow in the hour when his dead lies before him.” What then can religion offer? Hallowed ways to lead the bereaved through his intense grief. Encouragement to keep his faith in God despite every...
split from the bottom to the top. The wall came through and stopped. And the next thing I remember was it went very quiet, and then a lot of screaming and crying." Williams had escaped being under the crumbling wall, having been shifted to another desk across the room moments be...
As the event that dominates the third episode of Season 3 of The Crown, the Aberfan Disaster remains one of the most devastating losses of human ...