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DREADFUL COLLIERY EXPLOSION.…

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DREADFUL COLLIERY EXPLOSION. 'imRTY-HtlvB LIVES LuST. I A dreadful explosion of fire-damp occurred on I Tuesday morning last, nt the llebburn Pit, the pro- perty of Thomas Easton and Company, on the river Tvne. Newcastle. The explosion took place about half-past six o'clock in the morning, when upwards of 100 woikmen were in the mine but it was cut,- fined to the north-west district, where the SUtfrt18 were employed. The entne workings extend over about fifty acres, and are ventilated by means of two shafts, an upcast and a downcast one-the furr.nce system of ventilation been employed. As usual in such cases, nothing is known as to the immediate cause of explosion, for no one lives that can tell the tale. The air had to travel about 1,232 feet before reaching the place where the explosion occurred, and ab-iut 840 yards to its ecapement by the upcast shaft, but the coal scam being undulating, the cause- way was in some places nut more than five feet in height, ill o hers lourteen or fifteen feet, the lower level being taken for the formation of the rolling- line. 011 Monday night there was a heavy thunder stoira. On Tuesuay morning it IS supposed the loul air had accumulated in the arched rouf of the course, and 011 the horses being set to woik to draw waggons, which nearly closed the air couise in some places, it it suppused the loul air that hall gathered in the dome was driven out of its icceptucie into the pnrt where the men were working with candles, and igni- tion wus the conseqiienci This, however, is all mere conjecture, tonned l.om a knowledge ot the workup's uf the mine; for all iu the part where the explosion took pl.ice are dead, untl the survivors in the other pait ot the mine cull only speak to the faets which illlit-atett to them that an explosion took place. One man, working near the district where the ex- plosion took pluce, wus jjot out pnve. jiisnanie is William isell. lie, lumt-rer, uieruty stntes that he Itilt (istunning nuisii in his tars, anU becfime insensi- ble; in which state he was fuund, and attervvards recuveiLHi. The explosion must hn," been of a teiritic nature, for ail the stoppings and passages in districts were destioyeti, and the bodies ot the men were blown 10 atoms. One poor fellow who was at work, iimnnf tat. explosion had occuned, rushed to save his father alter several houls ineffectual search he found his parent without a head. Another man, employed as a plate was found with a rail stuck fcix leet ihruugh Ins buoy. Nlt)rc rnutjliitt!d corpses were perhaps never occasioned by such a catastrophe. Oi the 33 who are killed, 8 or 9 are mamtd, the reiuaiiuler arc yuuug men and strong youths. A lIlore mellUlchuly bight was perhaps lIever witnessed, An inquest was opened on Wednesday before Mr. Favell, the coroner lor the district, and adjourned to a future day, and in the muant?me suientthc men have be-?ii t?.igaged to Ihe it?i.e. it is ?. thy 01 "llk th¡¡t lr. Guruey's system of vcntila- liunw ^iM h.?e b"i, no sateyuaid whatever against this casualty at Jeakt, such is the opinion enter- tained, lor however rapid the transit ol air tiom the downcast to the U),>t. it could LILI have clear.d the ual."

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