The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-16 00:00:00

ANOTHER FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION.

Nine unfortunate colliers at Pemberton, near
Wigan, sere on Friday last placed on beds of death, or of
lingering pain and protracted suffering almost worse than
death, by one of those fearful explosions of fire damp which
have of late been so frequent and fatal in various parts of
the country. The accident occurred at the Norbury hall
colliery, held in trust by the executors of the late Mr. John
DagliS, of Pemberton. The bed of coal lies at a depth of
only 150 yards from the surface of the earth, and is
worked by a down shaft and an up-cut shaft, having
a furnace and other suitable apparatus for promoting a good
ventilation of the workings. The mine has been in opera-
tion about four years. It has employed about 53 colliers
and boys, and the workings to the east of _the shaft in
which the accident happened are extensive, running to a
distance of 500 yards.
The night of Thursday last, it will be recollected, was
very tempestuous. On Friday rianaift the wind was high,
and owing to this unfavourable ./am of the weather,
11 the firemen who had to examiner Mlle of the air in the
Norbury hall Colliery did not dowsed till lea lastead of
four o'clock on that morning. By six Wasik thly bad
reported the ventilation of the workings to be rsed, midi the
workpeeple doecoaded and repaired to work. The millers
worked milt we And easulles, whoa warned et lamer.
As is *wow sir paresivod us , dry, of amok bad
oast wrillm time. Abed 11 et sotwithalsading
the ordbly tibia bad ••few bow pre-
sowe-dogat dm sat wpm to
11.7• es such • sarrires ninths in
cases of this kind, ter is use mom Its have boas ldlled by
the force of the blast, though Devoid =Were were
thrown down by its action on the atmosphere in the
air passages. An intents aid shit Ile%sigiteTer,
filled the workings for some amisels. sat • short
time afterwards, the colliers brturela NOV Is and
had found their way to the batten a Oho reed
shoat six-
teen were found to be more or bin bail, alas of diem so
seriously that they had to he raised M Ike weft and takes
home to their beds. Two of them miertusibm, Jolts Syr
onelow, aged 20, and Joseph Wastlistwa (aka=
man) were released from their horrible ollisimg•
on Monday morning. Two others Jam alflemol„ aged
30, and Thomas Worthington, wi l dos paha* mss
terminate their wretched ostalma. The ether suf-
ferers are Oeo. Bromielow, eiriao the dilirri
_sod Richard
Bromielow (boy), brother te Ibebeiteled tlessammi ; sad
William Dauber, aged 24, Maine Max" sipi 20, mad
John Berry, a boy. The bestwardsr ail is Os neigh-
bourhood is at the service of the traselemella people ; but
several of them are badly burnt dna re an as well as
body, and it is sickening to think ache arm to which
they are subjected; and of the length of time they will
probably have to endure it, should wag if am, indeed,
ever recover.
An inquest was to have been held es the bodies of the
two deceased, on Wedesseday, by Mr. =,:oroner for
the Vest Derby imbed of Swath , and our
correspondent atlemind. but do pousadigp were post-
poned at the eleventh bran thrash lb, alum of the go-
vernment colliery ingsmter, who'll was ad orkable should
. examine the raise Med= evidebee ele riper.
The •frequeser et wallsials, 001
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hiese----ing •---rer her, Fortunately dm— --mig—mtimood-- 11,-7-, an Ilial iiiithatif angligig lb lainia *s sir _ _ ;=.— __ _.., prejudiced
ellattkoat, the Mary Ann. which instantly made for the nod keg up girl wewidialan. and der hi of Ire ? No, he did not fear
;,._ re....„,„. =ffilmmoillnleadlosnomMlentonwodoalley glow even Pr !at clan was called to it by the heated state of I
midi, and, netting alongside
mem
yof the emigrants, with their luggage. A season No me es, glom the eiggiegeg dem tlwl hut, Capt. Symons never lost command of his men. He was
Pllet-lesst was ilin fled to hi it aid, and we understand *MI is, goalie mom eerie...A maw in gib seine,
dr toot. tin boort the remainder of the pour rs% creato m . full of energy to the very last, and the men obeyed him to
had roma MI feel somewhat etaimed in an opinion the very last. Mr. Roberta took the helm until the very'
afro chi crew of the ill.f.it, d vessel. The fate of the skiie wt
previously teeMe to upon the that eine of the most lest, even when surrounded by the tire. The beam of the
mit rtied, known, a. Attempts would be mule to get her deceitful of dose explosions, eM fees ellended with the spar deck was sufficiently warm to induce him to put his
el 4 if
lensilde Mod of the CM' instated to he a eon to
et • .1° Ple greatest lon of Mk, ens sow be Mum awl prevented hand on the Hoer, which he found also warm. in his
by any prying Igignallinn Oren MilMeggle ef eallieefes. opinion the funnel wan sufficiently isolated to prevent fire
Ith I %.,1:U VICTUALLERN. ASTIAII.—The annual We shall Me libudrero our Imermill br • deeariPtiost of the by contact, even if hot. Saw two men bringing a road of
tall it aid of the (web of this institution took place On week% agg ghe origin of the are, es hr as it is known, grease from the store-room. Did not see the tire come up
•t., clay night, and was, me it always is, remarkably well in the t case. The working shaft of the the fore-hatchway. Was in his bed when it broke out.
s"' e';id. Staid, writ people amembled on the occasion, Nmenaggel=lliery dips into the centre of a large hod of but when he came up he saw bright flakes of fire coming '
sad .1 ,nring was kept up by them, with great spirit, till a coal eraiplapit many hundred yards in ell dirndl/no Prom up the main engine hatchway, and, subsequently, a mass of I
I'6' I'..ur AMMO( all the trades' charities in London, this the bottom of thi. shaft a level is driven through the bed of lame from the same quarter.
I"' • lie lead, awl it is even said to be the largest in the coal to the mat, which is the main level or pary-road. pm. By Capt. Mangles—Was aware that the stoke-bole in
kwei...m supported by voluntary contributions. It own- one aide of this main level the colliers base driven ems sin. which the coal was placed was lined with iron plates, and
1 b.. I". *lists I:eistparate tenements for decayed mem- teen or seventeen parallel levels, at right sash raven ves fist could not have caused the tire. His opinion was that the
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', 'l.! 10 i n••• 0 sietualiers. fraternity, and the rev wide, and extending either to them).* oldie laid of owl, se Aro was purely accidental, but that the rapidity of the
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-''" , "'" ri`t ':-'e'd has seen it rekswed from debt. The to a fault (which is en intereeetion of earth separating two flames was much accelerated by the state of the surrounding
h. t• 0 n mainly accomplished by the liberality"( the great potholms of the same held of coal) eaaparallel being about Umber, and the presence of the various matte" he hat
brewers, mot the efforts of the management are now di- ion yards long. These parallels are eight yards apart, mentioned. Ile wished to call attention to the mode in
IP" t"I tewiirile the loundatem of a suitable endowment Iso that when two of them have boos driven there ramsfY a which the boats were placed. Ile did not think that, so
heelheelMr Smelter. the chairman, exerted himself credit- solid wall of coal between them se be removed, eight yards arranged, they could he lowered under ten minutes. The
co.) 1... t night 0. promo., the interests of the institution, in breadth and some live or six in depth. The removal of heel cranes iwght nut be Ito objectionable if the people un-
I" h " 'lt h"nner to the trade, the destitute menthe!' of one of these walls had been conunamed as Friday morning dcrstood them.
oheh it e. he tor, hese. by Winnard, who is one of the melt severely burnt of the Capt. Mangles—This is • subject which must be investi- I
Dente," tar tug Jeetrles.—Look at the Hel- colliers. Ile hail begun by driving a road through the pled by a committee, when all these kind of suggestions
"Kw n pidnic, Vint permanent hotbed or communist in- wall at the far eat (or near to it), mat the fault ; and hut can be considered.— Witness :
l ived The l
inife-boat was a heavy •
thane •. that ass lam of 'anguished revolutionists! The i fur this accident he would have spasm removing the whole boat, but • better boat never a sea. She never
I' 4 d i 'nun, it ha otreody eompreheoded that • political breadth of this wall ot coal nearly up to the main level, key- shipped • sea once they gut her head to wind. Ile wished •
t), "-• wet ...toy, and orders tor expulsion have been ing the superincumbod earth to sink or tattle down to make another suggestion. When they went to sea, they
am... I„ t 5,,,i„;,.m receive its , ~,p d, ~,,,, r. Let Kin- behind him. Winnard, however, had only completed had the prospect u( five or six days pulling, without food or
moth not napp. r ~n the European continent' Let Swat an opening from one parallel to the neat, and water. It there was a gotta perehs band or tube run under
2.", i to no .'corer delivered up to the despotism of • turned round and commenced stripping a thin coating of the sides of the twat. and tilled with bread, and gotta
aronety debased by anarchical inspirations, end there is coal left against the fault away, when the dame of his peretia 'unties under the seats Riled with water, provisions
analog to excite alans.—Uniews. candle caught the explosive gas which had from some fee throe weeks might be easily stowed. Water so placed