Thanks for the interesting account of the disaster Sminky (the 2nd list of names agrees in number (52) with the summary of deaths for the disaster in the long list at the Durham Mining Museum site, though there were no other details there - it has extra information for some, though mainly those in the North East).

I did also check out the Farne site for works by Thomas Wilson, looking for the original source. Although there are quite a few items by him on the site, there was no sign of a source (unless it's in The Pitman's Pay and other poems, of which only the 2 cover pages are displayed).

Mick