The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-22 00:00:00

FERN-DALE COLLIERY EXPLOSION.

MERTHYR TYDVIL. WCIMILYDAT.
On Tuesday twenty more bodies were brought up
the pit, and on Wednesdeytwenty-three ; these, with three
who have died from injuries, make a total at present of
148 lives lost. It is known that twenty or thirty still re-
main under great falls in the extremity, and these are
expected to be met with in the progress towards clearing
out the west district. So in all probability by Saturday
night the huge grave will have given up all its dead, All
lb. bodies lately brought up are absolutely rotten. In the
coarse of exploration the engineers came alien a most sad-
dening spectacle—a father and son locked in each other's
arms, and in the act of kissing each other. So firmly were
they united that the arms had to be broken ere the bodies
amid be separated. On Wednesday several lamps were
fiend with the tops screwed off. Some lamp-keys were
also discovered, and one of these was actually secreted in
the crown of a cap. It is well known that taking keys into
the pit is a puulakable offence ; but what will not these
leckleas colliers do to increase their yield of coal ? Many
meow' imagine that the sole object of opening •
lamp in the pit is to enable the collier to smoke ; '
but such is not the case. The closed lamp, with its gauze
covering, yields such • dim light that it is difficult to
work with freedom; and hence the necessity of increasing
the yield to get extra pay, perhaps sadly needed, is the
main temptation. Reference having been made in the
Daily NM'', by a correspondent to the neerssity for getting
a fund raised in London, we are authorised to state that
the owners of the pit provide temporarily for the be-1
reeved, but it is not expected that a permanent provision
can be made. The sufferers were not all Welshmen, nor
were they people of the immediate district. Many were
Englishmen, and some from Yorkshire and Derbyshire. If
a young man quarrelled with his sweetheart or with
his parents, or became dimatistied with his
old place of employment, the goal, in almost
every case, was the secluded vale of Ferndale.
Thomas I:eynolde was, we believe, the sole survivor who
was Actually in the very heart of the explosion. and he has
given a striking description of what we may call the
closing scene of the horrible tragedy. He was teeing for life
when he came upon a crowd of men and boys, struggling
desperately to escape, but hemmed 1.1 with falls, and with
the horrid, palpable, and sulphureoue darkness. tome
were praying, others swearing in the most terrible MA-
ner—others were stink down, resigned, otraititg their
doom. It mkt a lAbel OFIPPItttiIOIIII, of entreaty, and of
oaths. R" fell {nstnsible : when he awoke to conscious-
ness no voice was heard—he was alone with the dead.
As related in a former letter, he managed to crawl into
the airway. and thence he was rescusil ashen at the
very point of death,

SINGULAR CAD ACCIDENT.—At 11 o'clock peeler
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day morning, as a Hansom cab was being driven along the
Stoke Newnigtou-road, it came into collision with a timber
yam The horse reared up, and then swerving to one side,
went off at full gallop on to the pavement, and leaped into
the shop window of Mr. William Wells, tailor, at No. 13,
Stoke Newington-toad. The sheet of plate-gam
shivered to pieces, and the horse was cut and torn on the
chest and legs in a frightful manner. The animal kicked
and lashed inside the shop, the cab outside preventing
him front breaking away. The blood poured from
its body on to the goods in the window and
the pavement outside. With great difficulty the
horse was gut out and miaowed to a blacksmith's shop in
the same road. There had been no fare in the cab, and
the driver escaped uninjured. A farrier sewed up the
horses wounds in front of the smith's shop, hut at about
half-past eleven o'clock the stitches gave way, and the
blood peered out afresh. Just at that moment • gentle-,
man, followed by his servant, rode past. The two horses
took fright, reared, and threw their riders on to the road.
way. The gentleman escaped with nothing mon serious
than a severe emanation, hut the servant was kicked by
his horse while he lay on the ground. The gentleman held
on to his bridle, and his horse dragged him along for sonic '
yards, bet the police and the crowd soon rescued him.
The servant's horse dashed off down the road, but was
giorlbefore further mischief was done.
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