The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-11 00:00:00

COAL•PIT ACCIDENTS.-81% LIVES LOST.

A distressing accident occurred last Friday forenoon,
at the Nethertoa Quarry soul-pit, shaded near Marykill,
about two Whom from Glasgow, the property of Mr. Bartley
el Paisley. There an two skate to the worklap, one of
them an old one, which is now used as the down-east shaft,
end harass at the bottom a steam-eagles with boiler for
winding the wish up from a lower level. In this old shaft is
plated the pump. From the steam boiler a Ins leads along
bat above tlu gallery between the two shafts, mail it epos
into the cep east abaft, about six fathoms above the gallery,
es
that the sew or cep-cast shaft forms the chimasy for all
the smoke sad vapour from the steam-ea/Ise boiler furnete.
Some of the working *stead right and left from the hod.
'lntel gallery between the two shafts, and when worklag
properly, the heated air pude; up the new shaft cared the
learns% of fresh air to est that way through all the workings.
The men were is the habit of deseending the new shaft
through the woke and vsgrinr when going down to their
wank. Oa Friday Mr. Bertelsen, the manager, saw soma
erase to divide the air muse by which the retailed= of
' Me pit was eanicd is, the unexpected result of which was
ISMS the dinettes of the air current was reversed, the ea-
ihre tagmeekatimeslieg eh. serrent towards the oil from
1111 sew ph, talon =Wag the spear% dowaiael. The
momequemea ease that the smoke, which ought to hays 's-
ari lot the Opeast shaft, was driven lest into the
mew weeklass, wilds ft
plved completely anvd Ire
Ihe 'ANSI there were suffocated. A
man gives tramp below that something was
wen', whoa the crater that was being pumped eat
el the pit wee agates thrown beck, which so far maned tile
lirleeent et air as to allow the misters in the old workings to
gimp kg the elff er dreamt snit Ouly two escaped by
M WAWA, trews Off peamanisatioo wfth the pit, newly,
the sew or up-pot fiat. Ths names of the prase whose
lives were semillooll. are—H. Boyd, and two of his sore,
Thomas, aged 16, awl Lewis, egad 13; W. Brown, and G.
Spence, a boy. Dept has left a widow and fear albino,
Is vary poor ehoomstanoes. Brown was also married,
bat had no family. Three or four miners who maaaged
to map with their lives were also injured more or leas se-
verely. This singular casualty rums to have been one that,
with requisite caution, need not have otwarred.
Oa Saturday forenoon last, one of the men employed in
the goal-pit of Kr. Dalsaarnook, was at wart, whoa
a large mar of coal became soddenly detached from the roof,
sad felling apse him crushed him so severely that death was
- ~....tansons.—NoriA British ilast

Tni Foo lii GlAsooW. Another fatal accident
osearred in this town on Monday, making the third which
has ressited from the fog. Hannah II fNeill, aged 19, the
Annetta of a widow, residing in Maitland-west, Hiswead-
dues, la company with her sister end one or two, elkse gwr,
eons, was proceeding along the canal bank, Port-
near Dnunpeller eeadepot, when, from the sztreasileary
thickness of the night, she missed her footing, sad M into
the water. Notwtthstaadiag the accident inesered ia
the °outplay of her Mends, two of when ware
sea, they appear not to have been Ws to realer may
saistaaos to the poor girl, who wee drowned. En father,
boat moth peen ago, was drowned near the lathe Woe.
TM loonmnience • (says the North
Braids HMI of Timothy) by la was wmg great.
nid-day, in almost every et %AM Mato
be kept constantly Dunkin, while cabs and (fir/ mobilise
were aostpellsa to mop along the streets at a mire ISM
Of ammo the navigation of the river woe
vended
vended, not a single mini, vaturing his ism
sad not one arriving. In the early part ei the braes;
muesli workmen were dzsteled by • reavoyeass to Dow-
. Ihwi. with the view of to oat the steamer Webb, awl
mods( big Ste Willis the sisal Irldi