The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-03 00:00:00

irITH

Another of these dr-adful catastrophes, resulting in the loss
octhirteen livos, has just occurred. The scene oft his accident
is the Bt yu Mally Colliery, situated some two or three miles
'beyond the thriving town of Wrexham. From all that our
cue Hall in Lord N- -
Lord-Nelson-street, d-s'lvrueent, reporter could learn on the spot, we glean the following
f ht, must interfere with each other to particulars i —The Bryn Mally Mines, at Brymbo, near
iw, the -writer in the courier must
lar6nitifOrity of the working men the Brymbia Company's Colleries, consist of several workings,
71 Jr earlier on a Saturday than any and there are several old workings, out of which the
-.a other causes, in addition, are more coal' has already been got. Near to these fresh openings
some place of entertainment that night than
Out of the 40,000 or 50,000 working people.
Id enjoy a cheap concert on a Saturday evening;•
have been made, leaving a partition between the new and
old workings sufficiently strong to prevent the egress of foul
obe accommodated in the Concert Hall, Lord air or water from the latter into the former. On Wednesday
?' If the writer in the Courier will give half a morning the colliers, to the number of 130. descended into
deration to this point, he will see how great a the pit and commenced their day'S work. All went on in
t remain unsnpplied after the Lord Nelson-
been crammed from floor to ceiling. The the usual manner till about four o'clock, at which time the
`tiers, seem to entertain an opinion that men left off work, and proceeded to the mouth of the pit;
ace are projected in an antagonistic for the purpose of being taken up by the engine, as is Usu.
ord Nelson-street Hall. Sir, I beg ally the' custom. The men had assembled together, and
deny that any such motive ever •
been a frequent visitor at the latter were waiting their turn to be taken up, when the pit, from
it filled to inconvenience, and crowds which they were about to leave, was burst into by a com-
want of space, probably to seek plete river of water, which had long filled the adjoining
It'ts of the town, in places of a very" .
mine, exhausted many years ago. Scarce twenty minutes
some instances, rather questionable
which gave me the idea of estab- had elapsed, when the water filled the mine so completely,
lay Evening Concert in our great as to reach the armpits of the men. The cries for assistance
to win audiences away from were instantly responded to by, those above. The engine
,f.nn of unquestion-
Was brought into requisition ; and we are happy to state
that, on the muster-roll being called: on the bank, only
fifteen persons were missing, the 'engine having been the
means of rescuing some 120 fellow beings from a premature
grave. The news of the accident spread with the rapidity of
lightning, and the consternation of the; relatives and friends
of those persons known to be in the mine at the time of the
occurrence is said to have been most heartrending. One
of the proprietors at once determined to descend the shaft at
the risk of his own life, accompanied by several colliers, in
order to accomplish what might be in the range of possi-
bility. It was, found, however, that the water had risen so
high, that all efforts to save those remaining in the pit were
unavailing Cries were, nevertheless, heard, but nothing
could be done to give the sufferers help, and there is no
doubt that they have met a watery grave.

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LATEST rARTIOULARS,

Yesterday the most energetic attempts were made to reduce
the water which has thus flooded the mine to the extent of an
area of something like 200 acres, and a depth of thirty yards,
as it was ascertained yesterday afternoon to be at the bottom
of the pit eye. At the engine pit the engine was at work until
about noon, and at this time it was found that the water had
been reduced by about a yard in depth► Soon after one
o'clock) however, sums; of thij Machinery of the dngine got out
of order, and before it could be replaced the water had again
risen to the height of five feet. It is said by those who
know the mine, that it must be, in fact, a submarine lake;
and many
_people in 'the neighbourhood are of opinion that
it will. be impossible to pump the water out of it. It is
somewhat remarkable that the adjoining mine has not been
worked for fifty years, in consequence of the immense quan-
tity of water in it. Mr. Sparrow was about to put down an
engine for the purpose of pumping the water out, prepara-
tory to the Working of it. The moat intense and painful
constern ition prevails in the neighbourhood among the
friends and relations of the missing men. Hundreds of
people continue to assemble around the mine; and we deeply
grieve to have to record that the wife of one of the missing
colliers has been quite delirious since the occurrence.