Kwong Jong Yee
Role: Miner
Year of birth: 1865
Date of death: 15 Feb 1901
Cause of death: 1901 disaster
Age at death: 36
Kwong Jong (or Jung) Yee was a Chinese miner. He worked at the No. 6 mine, where he was killed on February 15th, 1901 when an explosion tore through the mine. The initial explosion and fire set off a second. The entire shift was killed, and the decision was made to flood the mine to extinguish the inferno. Unfortunately discrepancies in the recording of Chinese fatalities of the disaster have caused difficulties in identifying Chinese casualties, with names having been misspelled or mis-recorded.