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THE BRYNMALLY ACCIDENT, COSCLfaiON OF THB IXaVEsT. The adjourned inquest on the bodies of the 13 lost their lives by the late inundation at e: grynmally colliery was held on Wednesday t it the housse of Mr Whittaker, the Turf Ta- Wrexham. The 18 jurymen, together with ft'f, v th V-ter H¡gIJon. x.q., the government inspector, and coroner, attended punctually to time, (ten ,k) and in a short titue afterwards the proceed- ^ere recommenced. Joha Fetera was recalled, and stated he had been .atble to find the report previously alluded to by iim of a conversation whioh took place between fltber aad Mr Kyrke, in relation to the Bryn- works. He had seen the D fault marked on plan which his father made in 1839, (sup- r0*i) On the governmentt inspector asking for the ori-i .);>1 plan of the workings— jjr Clayton said that he had not brought it, but i ? CJuld send for it or for anything else which was e.ej necessary to assist in the investigation. The Government Inspector said that it would be #0rv! satisfactory if the plans were produced, on j bich a messenger was sent for them. liters was then examined at some length, but hi: evidence was of a similar character to that in first examination. He stated distinctly that, t pnii-'tu'al man, he would not have bored under t,;e circumstances, as from the plan it was known ttey had not reached the boundary of the works, „ i was it kncwn that they had broken through .Ie fault. ilrClayton was then examined. He said: I aa tie manager and one of the proprietors of the ]j:vii.'iiilly colliery. All the deceased were colliers v?i'? in my employ in the No. 3 pit—in the ,?n COA]. On Tue?ay, the 30th of September, ] recollect the water breaking in and inundating pe tf-uka. I learned this at 7 o'clock in the even- ji; having been from home on that day. I re- vived information from the men of the accident, when I arrived, 48 of the men had been saved, j'riyr to being told I should not have thought for moment that any water would have broken in f oui the north side of the two I was more appre- • aasive of that part next to the Westminster old workino,-g on the south side. Having been inform- j by the former owners of the colliery and the mnager, (Mr Richard Kyrke, junior) that a fault j 14 yards, running nearly east and west, was en- L'.el D'lt having been crossed, I thought that was a fcicnt barrier against any quantity of water that tight exist on the north side of it. I had no in- mation or knowledge from any one how far the norks had approached the fault on the Yord side, either did I think it of any moment, so long as ue D fault was entire. Never up to the time of ■_c water breaking in had I received any iuforma- :)[], directly or indirectly, leading me to alter this .ninion, or that there was the least danger exist- ;ng of an influx of water from that side. So satia- jeJ was I of this, that in August of 1854, I was ;• j to make an agreement with Mr Thomson, the arner of the land under which these works were, to resign and give up to him all claim upon all the minerals which I held on the north side of the D fault, under lease granted to Mr James Kyrke by tiid former owners of the land—making arrange- ment with him, for certain considerations, only to York the coal on the south side of the D fault, or the Hrynmally side, making the D fault the boun- duj. I was induced to do this rather than run tiiurisk of cutting through the fault, and thereby making a connection between the old working. on tiit- other (the Yord) side, of which I was perfectly rant. With regard to the two-yard coal, I may remark that it was all along very wet, as alio were the main and brassy ooals on the north ride of the pit. They had always been wet; and lroa a plan in my possession I find that the two- yard coal, where it had been worked the nearest to the D fault, had been given up, owing to the quantity of water coming out of the coal, which I understand caused the men to refuse to work it, although they had almost twice the amount per ton offered to induce them to do so, thereby satisfying me that they had no fear of an inun- datiou. By the Coroner: I had no information as to the workings on the D fault, having no plans of ] it. Had no reason whatever to doubt what Mr Kirke told me of it being entire. By the Government Inspector: I had no rea- son to apprehend that the water would break in from the north side of the workings. I thought i: possible that it might have broken in from the w itli side, because there was water on that side iymg in some old workings belonging to the i.-5t:r.inster Coal Company. Of the two I should  thought that the south was the likelier ¡);a" of the two where water would break in. I Whea 1, arrived at Brynmally on the evening of i i.*• accident, they told me where it had broken ia- Lut I cannot recollect who it was that did I M. Ia making the agreement w?th Mr Thomson I t?? question of the fault was not discussed. Tho I 1? iug it as a boundary to the works was my I s??esttun, being satisfied at the time with the t presentations made on the subject by Mr R. I ky:ke, which had been made some five years I U.'ore. I have iron-stone pits on the crop of tl e I Inamally estate, but in none of them can the hilt be proved, in consequence of their being I :Uoh lower and at a considerable distance, ? the crop of the estate I have worked the two- I ?rj cj?I, but not up to the D fault; I have also t hoiked the braasy coal on the north side to t within 68 yards or thereabouts, to a point to I Thtire I have worked the main coal, but I did I M extend the workings so far as to the wicket I wiath is marked wet on the plans. The 0 lal t there is bad and the place wet. There was a t gf¡.¡1 ileal of water coming out of the wiaket where t «c were working it, as. indeed, there was in all t the others. The chief reason for abandoning the t works was the had quality of the coal, which was I bo soft that I could pull it out with my hand. I I Lave got the rules established by act of parliament aud sanctioned by the Secretary of State, and I t have seen that they have been properly enforced— t strictly so. I take the management of the works t upull royself, employing an underground agent, but I management rests with me. Holcroft ■ tik^ es his instructions from me from time to time, t %rhtn he wants my advice or opinion. I put the ■ rmcs ia his hands, and told him to carry them out t c_:ijomtly with the head clerk, Mr Hutchinson. t 1I. Is not icsponsible at all, ail it is his duty to dis- I tlll¡:Jt them only. It is Mr Holoroft's duty to see ■ tb:" they (the rules) are duly obeyed and followed M out, Had it been necessary to have bored he would M !:aft! oULtless acquainted me first on the subject. ■ aught have bored without my instructions, but ■ ao not think he would have done so. I believe ■ that had he considered boring necessary, he would ■ ave made preparations before mentioning it to me,' ■ aa be has orders from me to make what arrange- ■ Dents he thinks p;oper to secure the safety of the M suid the mine, and he might have commenced ■ g witLuut my sanction. He never told me it ■ &.i desirable to bore, nor did he ever mention bor- ■ ?'g to me at all. I have, In consequenoe, never ■ ?d. because I did not think it was necessary to ? o ?. We have spoken together of the danger in ? ? south side from th* water, and only a fortnight ■ Lffore the accident occurred I saw Mr Darby on I subject, and asked his permission to speak to H 1fr S;llliUel Jones, his mine agent, and to inspect ■ tae plana for the purpose of obtaining information ■ as t.j where the water lay. I do not know how ■ w e are to these workings. Believe we gre ■ 1-5 to 20 yards from the extreme boundary in this ■ Pi't—the south side, and do not know whether ■ tb.. n: it a fault between the Brynmally and West- ■ ^nsier old workings. Never have bored in this, ■ Section at all. ■ Government Inspector; Why notf May there ■ he another fault there ? fr Cltyt.?n Because 1 had determined to leave ■ ft Pilia, (,;f coal), and also to get information from, tlt company where the pool of water did lie. I ■ "alt seen the place where the accident took place ■ it occurred, both yesterday (Tuesday) and on ■ S^-rlav. ''Overnment Inspector: Describe to the jury ■ 'w?lat you saw, ? ? ??r Clayton: The stream of water which is now H ?".m? ia through the opening, comes in through t' 0' ■ 1" r.? f of the mine, and ???g from the top of the I jTer pillar into the waggon road, as if it were dl' J' ■ ^hvered f,? a sp.mt. The fall of the water has H up the s did floor of the mine, as I could ????, ah?ut two yards deep near to the end of the ? U"?n',ju road. I could not get close to it, not near- ■ f?r or 7 yards, in consequence of the black ? ?P?rb..nic acid gas) and I believe that few "'Jul,1 h 0 Th'  w ''t ^ave liked to have gone so near. Thia gas t  doubtless in the wicket, and also pro- L4'i,1 l -.l'OT" the Yord workings brought in with the  '1'1 o. h N M?t?? ??"' place was stopped working some three ?? ??'ore the water broke in. Griffiths (Ish- Mat-11, f UQd water oozing from the roof on the Sa- NN?tun) ??'ous His nearest working place was ■ 'fll\: G d 11 ? 7 y?''?s from the end of the waggon road. N have been drow ned, but all, 1 believe efft'c:h. xcePtionof two or three, died from the tcn?.. f ?? ?: all, indeed, with the exception of N Jhhm Grittiths and Evan Roberts. The three Hmen on I"0 south side were not drownod. They I?g. ? have retreatud before the water which ne- v ,1 °3l° level on which they were found. m 31 v h1 r that if boring had been driven in the ue III U NBid? "? front, that the water would have not I been ?)' '??'?. ? it broke in from the roof. The tb.jri, ?°?'I not have tapped the water in the IHlod-'m —— .1 '0 which is not the U-ual practice. 1 myself approve of boring. I understand that sotas 60 years ago it was customary to make the air-ways in advance and above the waggon road. It is not usual to do so now. These air-ways were made in the biud above the coal; at least, so an old man, who knew the fact. told me he had worked in a mine 10 managed. The Coroner: Should not the roof be bored therefore, in consequence? Mr. Clayton: No; because water is only to be found In places where the coal is excavated. I be- lieve, in thia instance, it must have been cut across just upon the deep of the road, because the water falls towards the cross over the pillars. I believe the waggon road, in the Brynmally side the fault, would be at least 100 yards from the deep of the other side —I doubt whether a bore-hole iu the south side would enter into the water. I don't believe it would. Probably, had it been done on the south side of the lower level it might have done so-probably it might I have tapped it. By the Coroner; All the suggestions thrown out by the Government Inspector have all been carried out. I do not thick that the 6 feet fault is the fault so much talked of (the D fault) in conversation on the subject. There an conflicting opinions on this poiut, but I do not believe that the one has been mistaken for the other. John Dodd, a collier, living at Cefoybedd, was then examined, but his evidence amounted to—nothing, what in fact he professed to know. He was in the the employ of Ir. Clayton it would seem, when the accident took place, and was working in the Brassy pit. The Coroner attempted in vain to elicit from him how long and where he had worked, when the fol- lowing interesting dialogue took place :— Coroner: Did you work 6 days or 3 days in the main coal or in the brassy before the accident took place, or—how was it ? # John Dudd: I dunua know, but I think he'll bother himself as well as me before he's done. (Roars of laughter.) Coroner: What made you leave off working in the main coal ? Dodd: Because I got a better job. Coroner It was not then because yon were afraid of working there ? Dodd: No, I was not afraid-not a bit, but it was a better job. Coroner Were you better paid ? Dodd: No-none, Coroner: Perhaps you did not like hard work? Dodd I don't know any one who does. (Shouts of laughter.) Coroner: Did you leave off working in the main coal because you thought there was danger there? Dodd: I had no fear of danger. I never knew of I it until after the accident, and then I did, and so did everybody else, then. (Laughter.) Coroner: Have you not stated that you left the main coal because you considered it unsafe, by reason of the water ? Dodd: No I did not, I never heard of it (the dan- ger) Coroner: What made you leave, then? Dodd: I suppose I must have been afraid of hard work, as you eay ? (Great laughter.) Coroner: What are you brought here to prove? Dodd I am sure I don't know. Coroner Are yon here on behalf of the crown or for Mr. Clayto¿ P-who brought you hereP DodJ: The policeman. (Continued laughter.) Coroner: Oh, then you are for the crown t Dodd; Yes, I dare say I am. A. Juror here stated that the witness had told him, that he left the works because he was afraid of the water, and he, and several others, had been propaga- ting similar tales all through the district. He caa. tioued him at the time, and said, that when he was called upon he would probably give a different version of the matter. He thought such men ought to be punished as they caused much mischief, and besides, he had told untruths on oath. The .Coroner remarked that he had not perjured ] £ raself, aa he had told the truth on his oath and es before. Another juror observed that the witness had most certainly perjured himself, for he had then sworn to .not having stated to any one that he had left the work for fear of the water, although he had said so in the presence af one of the jurors. After some remarks from Mr. Clayton, express- ing his satisfaction that the man had been examined The Coroner said that he ought to be ashamed of himself for such conduct, telling false tales in order to make mischief. It was perfectly disgraceful in him to have done so. The jury was here adjourned for half an hour to get refreshments. On its re-assembling, Mr. Samuel Jones was first examined. He said I am a mine agent and reside at Brymbo, and have known the district for 16 years. I have known the coal mines which are worked on the Brynmally estate, and I also know the Yord pit, but not what ita extent is. I also know of the D fault by hear say, but not of my own knowledge. Amongst others Joseph Usher, who is now dead, told me of it some 8 yearaago. Ho stated to me that it was running through a wood (on the surface) and that it had a throw of 14 yards down from the north. Had I been called upon I should have acted upon this information, having no reason whatever to doubt its correctness. I da not say that I should have depended upon it altogether without Erst ex- amining and considering whether he had stated what was correct or not. It would depend upon circumstances whether I should have bored or not had I saw a quantity of water coming out of the briggins. I should rot have bored ordinarily un- less I had first crossed the fault. Had the water continually increased as the works went on, and especially had the water come from the face of the workings, I should have concluded that there was a pressure of water in front, and I then should certainly have bored. This however, would de- pend upon the direction which the water came from—from the direction in which I was driving. I know of my own knowledge t there is a large quantity of water in the old Yord workiaga, but I should not have bored had I not been satisfied that the fault had been crossed, for I should have con- sidered tho*l4 yards throw a quite sufficient bar- rier against any quantity of water. By a juror: Providing I had been driving a level and I had found the water decrease I should not have bored, but if I had any doubts on the subject I should certainly have done so. I have known water to ooze in when the pool from which it came was some 5 or 600 yards in advanae. Tho juror': I do not believe that (sensation). Witness: This is the case at present at one of the pits at the Broughton colliery with which I-am connected, for the water is coming in, and the pool is certainly 600 yards in front. The Government Inspector: What extent of infor- mation would satisfy you so as to induce you to place implicit faith on the correctness of plans mads many years ago ? Witness: I cannot answer that. Government Inspector Could yon lely on the plans made by John Peters ? Witness; Yes, I think I could on the whole. He has sometimes made mistakes, but in general his plan a are tolerably correct. This witness was then examined at some length by tho Government inspector, Mr. Clayton, and the Coro- ner, on matters chiefly of an hypothetical character tending to ascertain whether he would have thought it necessary to bore under the circumstances. The giat of his answers being that he believed he should not have done so, but be could not state positively without having had a personal knowledge of them. This witness gave hia evidenee most conscientiously and carefully. I _» « •. Robert Price, the fireman, who went aown tne pu first on the morning of the disaster,aa then exa- mined, but, contrary to expectation, his evidence threw sno additional light whatever as to the cause of the accident. For the first 10 minutes, he was occupied in describing the upa and downs" which he took in his day's excursion, which must have extended some miles of workings we should supposd. He was in the pit when the accident occurred, and got out of it it seems, as quickly as possible. It was hia duty to exa- mine the workings of. the whole mine, so that be seemed to know very little of auy particular portion of it, the points in displite no more than the other parts. Mr. R- V. Kyrke on being sworn, said I formerly worked the Brynmally colliery as manager aud pro- prietor, and I certainly never heard that the D fault had been crossed. I always supposed it was the same fault which we had crossed in a paIt of our works. I vaa so silre of thisf that in 1849, I entered into an agreement with Mr. Parry to purchase all the coal on the south side of the fault, supposing it to be whole. I suppos. it must have baen crossed by aome one from the Yord works, otherwise the water could not have broken in. I did not carry out the agreement because Mr. Parry wished me not to do so. We were working part of the Frood estate, but not immediately adjoining. Previous to the agreement, I did not make auy inquiry about the fault, being satisfied with the plaus made by John Peters, who had marked it down as being entire. He was in my employ at the time, and could have had no motive for deceiving me. lie was an old man at the time, but quite up to hia busi- ness. Peters was a mine agent at that time, aud knew all the district well. After some discussion, as to the propriety of exam- ining Mr John Holcroft, he himself decided on being examined, and after being duly cautioned and sworn by -the coroner, he said I am under-ground bailiff to Mr Clayton. My duty is to conduot and manage the mine, and to carry out tilt orders of Mr CHaytou. the deceased men were working in the pit tinder ine. I recollect having a conversation with Seth Roberta on the Saturday evening previous to the accident. He wished to have more room to work in, having a number of men under him, and asked my leave to open a new wicket, which 1 told him to do. He in- cidentally mentioned Ishmael Griffiths having found a somewhat stronger stream of water in a briggin than usual, and said that it might perhaps be as well to bore. I mentioned that the roads were rather wet, and asked him how would it be for his holers ? He replied, Oh, we cqn manage very well for them." When he told me that Ishmael Griffiths was making more water in the waggon road, I said that we must be getting near to the fault, and added that as dial- ling day would be on the Tuesday or Wednesday, we should then see where the fault was, and if we were near it we would bore at once, as I did not intend to strip that fault. Those were my exact words. After this it was agreed that Ishmael Griffiths should b. employed on the Monday to open the new wicket. Titat was all the conversation which took place be- tween us. I By the Government Inspector: I have been em- ployed as bailiff between 6 and 7 years-about that. I heard of the D fault soon alter I came. I believe Mr Clayton told me of it first, but it is a long time s iuce, and I can scarcely recollect. I was also told that no works had been driven across it. There was water all along the level, just like from other places, there being nothing at all particular about it. 1 never thought of boring. The quantity of water never led me to suppose that we had got under the old workings of the Yord pit. I now believe it must have beeu crossed by the Yord people. I have seen as much wa- ter in 3 different mines before, and we bored in these three yards in advance, which, in my opiniou, would leave a sufficient barrier against any quantity of wa- ter. If we had bored in this case I do not think it would have prevented the accident, judging from the position of the works and the way the water came in. The work s were too far off, and the water comes in from the roof. After giviug similar evidence for some time longer, he concluded, aud the coroner adjourned the inquest until the next morning at 9 o'clock. THURSDAY, ine inquest was resumed this morning a little after nine o'clock, and proceedings were forthwith commen- ced. Peter Higson, Esq., Government Inspector, sworn, said: I am Government Inspector for this district. On Tuesday, the 11th instant, I examined the work- ings in the main coal at Bryamally Colliery. I pro- ceeded up the first break aad then along the second cross or waggon road, in the direction of the source from which the water came, which inundated the pit. I could not get to the extreme north point of the waggon road, in consequence of the black damp which was very strong; but I got sufficiently near to see, by the aid of a large lamp, a considerable quautity of water pouring from the top side of the rock coal and as near as I can judge, out of the clog or bind. From the general appearance of the place, I con- clude that this is the point in the works where the wa- ter first broke in, which on its first appearance, must have come with great force. The floor of the wag- gon road is ploughed up. In passing along this wag- gon road, both in and out, I paid particular attention to all the cracks, fissures, slips aud briggins, to see if I could discover that water had come out of them under the first bind, but I could only find two indi- cations of such having been the case. This, ho w ever, may be accounted for from the fact of the break and the waggou road, being in a state of great dilapi- dation. The whole appears to be a complete wreck. In many places the sides have fallen for yards toge- ther; and the place is nearly filled with slack and iebrit, from the fallen roof which appears to have been drifted along by the force of the flood. The place where the water is now coming in appears to me to be abont 7 yards beyond the thrilling in which Griffiths was said to have been working This thrilling is not more, at the extreme point, than 3 yards above the waggon road, and no part of it appears to have fallen in or given way at the aides. The waggon road and the thrilling to the end appears to be of the usual width and to have suffered but little from the flood beyond that of the floor being blown up. My at- tention has been drawn and directed to the old pits in the Yord or adjoining estates, and also to a day level which is said to have drained the works in some of the upper seams on the cross of the Brynmally estate, and also to an old plan said to have been made hy Peters, on which a fault having a uorthernly bearil1. is marked thereon. After inspecting these, I am in- duced to think, that the water which inundated Bryn- mally colliery on the 30th of September, came from those old works in the Yord estate. But whether the fault, marked on the plau to which I before re- ferred, was cut in the ordiuary eourse of working and in sinking some of the shafts ia the yard side, vesti- ges of which are seen, I am not enabled to state, but I am luclined to think it was iu the usual way. Had borings been made before the driving of 6 or 8 yards in advance of the work, in opposition to the evidence before given and said. I think it very likely the water would have been discovered before it broke in the colliery; and I believe this would have been the case if the air roads had been driven in the bind as stated by the witnesses. It is stated in the 38th rule, in the code of special laws, established at this colliery. that in approaching a place likely to contain a danger- ous quantity of water, the underlooker or fireman shall see that borings be kept in advance and on both sides sufficiently far to discovar its existence before the barrier of coal has been so weakened as to read r a dangerous influx possible. This is one of the rules for the guidance of underlookers, chaltt-r-uiaiiters. firemen, and superintendents; and rule 11 in the same code states that every collier shalli when ordered by the underlooker or fireman, keep a bore tiolr. in advance on both sides of his place of work as may be described by such uuderlooker or fireman. In the-e rules there is no distance specified which is to be bored on approaching water; and my experience en- ables me to say that in all cases where water is known to exist in old worko, the boring should commence sufficiently far from the point of danger, aud that it ought in no case to be deferred till the barrier has been rendered weak. The length of the bore-hole should never be less, where water is confined and un- der pressure, than 6 yards in advance, and in some oases it would be necessary to bore almost double that distance. By the Coroner-If the roof was an ordinary roof and no old working in the superincumbent strata and very wet, I should aimply drill a hole to drain it (tho roof) but if there were old workings containing water in the roof I should bore it off in the usual way. By the Foreman: As to the point of danger I should not depend much on old plans. If in driving a waggon road or any other heading in the direction of old works known, or likely to contain water and the place being wet-exceedingly wet, I should hot rely on the evidence of any old plan, but I should commence boring at Once without reference to dis- tance unless it were very, very far. You never get to the exact distance that the workings are driven unless you be the last man. I think when I waa get. ing near the place where the fault was I should have bored for many reasons. I should not have thought it desirable to bare the fault, but have bored up to it, especially in a district like this. I should have bored in the bind so as to get the water in one spout, not so much in consequence of danger as for the eomfort of the men. I have been myself used to dcain in the roof frequently. Had there baea no seam of coal worked for 40 yards between the main and the brassy I ahould not have thought of boring that distance. Had I a lodgment of water in the brassy coal I should have thought it nnecessary to get rid of it somehow before I worked the main. 1 would not have worked under a gulf, even if there were 40 yards between. By Mr. Clayton; I give it as ay opinion, that if borings had beeu made 0 or 8 yards iu advance the water might have been discovered, which would have allowed the men sufficient time to escape. They al- ways bore aa far aa they can, the farther the better. If no water ia anticipated, why bore ? I wish to state in evidence that the coal doe@ look atrong and sound and gives no indication of being in the vicinity of water. I apprehend Mr. Jones's ease is peculiar to himsqlf-he made the gulf and is now working up to it. I certainly should, within 50 or 60 yards, have bored. Did the D fault exist entire and had it not been cut through or broken, and a throw of l-i yards, it would be a barrier sufficiently strung to hold baek any water which may exist in the Yord estate. The evidence being now concluded, Mr Clayton claimed permission to address the jury especially in relation to the evidence which had been given by the Government Inspector. It had been admitted he aaid to him that no indications of water had ahewn itself in the workings the coal, the bind, and every thing else were sound aud good, whereas auok oould not have been the case had there been a large lodg- ment of water overhead. He next reverted to the boring and contended that the 88th rule must have a discretionary me ming, otherwise they would be cal- led upon to bore some hundreds of yards in advance of any old workings which were known to exist. This he coubiderud to be very unreasonable. They had not bored because they now saw uo indications of a large quantity of water, aud also because they belieyed that there was a sufficient barrier in front of them in the fault. Mr. Clayton then alluded to the popular opinion held iu relation to coal proprietors since the government regulations had been put in force. Noue knew better than the practical men on the jury, of the dangers which beset the working of mines, from weak walla, and fire, and water; and even in a pecuniary point of viow, and if ibey cared nothing for the duty to take all preoautious against accident. The public did not seem to think of this but when accidents did occur they (the proprietors) ought to have their sympathies rather than anything else; Had there been danger the men must have perceived it, and as their lives were at stake, they would have re- quested borings to have been made, elpeoially ail it would cost them uothiug. There was uo appar nt danger, which had been proved by the men themselyes and therefore boring had not been resorted to. The Coroner having addressed the jury in, the iisual manner, offering either- to read his notes over or to lend them for the ue: of the jury, the room was clear- ed of strangers, and they proceeded to eonsider the evidence. It was now half-past eleven o'clock, and at about ten minutes to two it was announced that they had come to a decision, and the dour was thrown i, open. The foreman then said that the jury had brought in a verdict of ACCIDENTAL DEATH. 1 The foreman added-We must express to Mr Clayton our opinion that the mines should beburveyed, and the drivings and eoal places oftener laid down on the working plans than they appear hitherto to have bean doue. This terminated the proceedings of theinquell. MINBBA.—F ATAI ACCIDENT.-On Saturday last, the 8th instant, an accident happened to an old man, named Robert Edwards, an 'assistant at the Hinera Mill, in the occupation of Mr. Eliaa Jones, which resulted in hia death. It appears the de- ceased was driving a young spirited horae in a cart near Bwlchgwyn, when from some cause the old man was knocked down, the cart upset, and the horse galloped off with the shafts, but was stopped near to Ffynnon-y-cwrw. Edwards was afterwards found upon a heap of stones insensible, with his two legs broken and his abdomen severely crushed. Assistance was obtained and he was conveyed to his master's house, where he lingarad until twelve o'clock the same night when he expired. An in- quest was held on the body on Tuesday.

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