The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-04-21 00:00:00

TERRIBLE COLLIERY EXPLOSION.

GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.

An explosion occurred on Tue.day night, at Astley Pit,
Dukintield, near Ashton, one of the deepest in the world.
Over 150 men and boys were at work. Sonic datallers
were spragging the defective roof of an arched tunnel
which served as a main air road to the northern works,
when a large slip of earth occurred. A great quantity of
gas was given off at that moment, and exploded with
fearful force on the open lamps of the &tellers. The
tunnel was blocked up several yards, and the
blast of the explosion swept like • whirls Ind
down the workings. Only one of the datallers
escaped uninjured, and the others were seriously scorched.
The engineer was dragged out dead. Thirteen of
those further in the workings escaped, running along
a return airway. AU the others on that
side were imprisoned till Wednesday morning.
Bands of explorers worked during the night. About
five o'clock word was brought that • man had been found
alive, and shortly afterwards ten men and boys were
landed on the bank, having been discovered shout seventy
yards distant frotu the shaft. These were the only ones
saved. The total number of deaths proved to be n All
the bodies have been recovered except three, which are
still in the working.. The scene at the pit's mouth Is to-
night (Wednesday) indescribably sad and painful.
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One of the explorers has lost his life. He wandered
from the search party down level, which the main party
refuse to enter, and his body was brought up to the bonit
Saturday afternoon, It was not known that he was missing
till Saturday morning, when his wife made inquiries about
him. The flre has been extinguishes!, and all the bodies re-
covered. Nineteen of the victims at the Astley Pit
explosion were buried on Saturday. and 32 on Sunday,
when at least 100,000 persons were congregated about the
graves. In Dearly ell the churches of the district the
calamity was alluded to.

BI COCOL--011Altrttl. COMPVIII•
tga.—" By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws
which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition,
and by a careful application of the no properties of wen
selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast
tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which
may save us many heavy doctors &nide
aaartfe. Made simply with Boiling Water or Milk.—
Bold by Grocers in packets only, labelled—"Josse Errs
and Co., Homemathic Chemists, 48, Threadneedle Streets
and 170, Piccadilly ,• Works, Buxton Read, London.-
MAXCIPAOITIIII Of COCOA. WO will now an account of
tor Wince= adopted by Mean. dames Epps I Co.,musufactusare
article., ist their works In the tuston Road, London."
—'Sr. article In Casimir, 11 inurAad Grids.
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lioLLOwaY'S OirTIVIT sleo PILLS. —Chest Prerr•tifei.
At all PCS/4M of the year the rate of mortality from
diseases of the lungs is very greet Holism:ay', Ointment
well rubbed upon all chest, aided by his Pills,
.rstreste
all
mischief. These cleanling medicaments exercise a most
salutary and restorative influence over the entire contents
of the pectoral cavity. Air tubes, eery., 14..1 vessols,
and an other tissues feel their wholewimely protective
power, more particularly in their thoroughlY isurifYing
both venous and arterial blood by promoting the free
circulation of sir. Neither Ointemant nor Nis contain
any noxious ingredient whatever, but their balsamic
nature nourishes rather than irritates the
once snore.
Ports MR DgLeVlOXv.—Wben Faust invented thelprintln
kindly subdues all untoward symptoms, till all is well
press, and such saw with what marvellous facility the most
bulky manuscripts 5.0u1d he reproduced almost unlimited
numbers, they ascribed the invention to a person who has
been obliged to bear not only has own sins, but those of all ,
the world—the DeviL Hence mom the wild German
legend of Dr. Faust .and the Devil, which the genius of
Goethe has immortalised..n thee times, for his celebrated
Siih would have been the fate
of
cures. that our superstitious forefathers would have
mcribed it all to bus Satanic tehiesty. in spite of the
ni
c'cilin°e.wsahis-e hAd
workhe hedved ai li
medd working such wonderful
inconsistency of believing in old Nick's caring for the good
of man. They would have burned him for a wizard, but
we in a more enlightened. age are content to reap the
benefits of his philanthropic labours, melto look upon him
as the great benefactor of his nee. Through Isis means
we soar bid deflence suffering And disease in
any of the
thoomnd forms which it usumus, and look forward
confidently to a lung and happy life. May be live long in
the fun enjoyment of that great blesasing which lii. Pills
and Ointment have done so much to be.tow upon suffering
humanity, is the prayer of naillions who look upon him as
the saviour of their lives and limbs, or the restorer of their
health. Now, we have aton hoard it said that th...•
pretended cures as. all moonshine, and that nothing but •
bold front and large means have reised Holloway to hea
present position ; hut a moment:a reflection must disaipsba
such a delusion: for OM it be supposed that he would hero I
been permitted to have gone on for in many YOUn past, as
shown by his advertisements, setting for nmrvellous cures
with names and addreases of thousands of persons of all
ranks of variety—we ask, is it likely that sueli an imposi.
tion, if such it heen, eosibi have been palmed off year
after year upon the public at this enlightened age? Woubl
not thousands who paid for hio medicines hate denounced
him as a public cheat, and as one who had filched them
out of their rucnieyl But as none have missal • voice
=iattbem,_then the most !sceptical amongst us can but
that Hollowey's medicines pumas efficacy of ea
extraordinary merit—Nerve& PM,.