A Treatise On the Coal Mines of Durham And Northumberland With Information Rel
A Treatise On the Coal Mines of Durham And Northumberland With Information Rel
J H H Holmes
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, soon completed the horrors of the scene. Scarce a vestige of the mine in its winning (or working) shape could be found : seams of coal were rent asunder, pillars hurled from their station, and the roof lowered in many places to the floor; a waggon with a team of horses and the driver were dashed to pieces; and out of seventy-two persons employed, besides the fifty-four killed at the instant, and the waggoner, two suffered death by suffoca- tion, and the remaining fifteen were severely hurt or... wounded; some of them only sur- viving until they had reached the surface, when the atmospheric air became too powerful for their exhausted condition. Thus in the short space of a month one hundred and thirty-two poor beings were awfully destroyed, and near three hundred widows and children left to all the horrors of beggary and starvation. It is a reflection which makes the humane mind look with indignation on the unpardon- * A curious account of the effects of air rushing into the vacuum occasioned by an explosion, appears in Phil.
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