[Bedwellty Colliery Explosion, 1865: street ballad in Welsh, with list of names of deceased.] Printed item titled: 'Hanes alarus am 26 o golliers a gollasant eu bywydau yn pwll glo Bedwellty, gerllaw Tredegar, Dydd Gwener, Mehefin 16, 1865.'

The title is 'Hanes alarus am 26 o golliers a gollasant eu bywydau yn pwll glo Bedwellty, gerllaw Tredegar, Dydd Gwener, Mehefin 16, 1865.' This may be translated as 'The woeful tale of 26 colliers who lost their lives in the Bedwellty coal mine, near Tredegar, Friday, 16 June 1865. 4pp 16mo (15.5 x 9 cm). Paginated [1]-4. Bifolium. Printer's slug at foot of last page. Disbound. A frail survival: aged and worn. Beneath the title, and covering the rest of the first page, is a list of 25 of the deceased, their ages and dependents, headed 'ENWAU Y PERSONAU.' The first entry in the list is 'Thomas Meredith, 50 oed, priod ac un plentyn'; and the fourth, 'Lewis Lewis, 40, gweddw a phump o blant'. The poem, in sixteen four-line stanzas, covers pp.2-4, and is headed 'HANES ALARUS.' No copy in the National Library of Wales. The only copy of this item located, either on OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC, is at Swansea University, where it is bound with other pamphlets by Carmarthen printers.