The Express.
London, England, 1850-11-18 00:00:00

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MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.

MANCHESTER, Nov. It
Another colliery explosion took place in this neigh-
bourhood yesterday naming, but the ion of lie, happily,
wee act se great as auto attends these shocking Wealth..
Tension were killed en the spot by It, however, and two
ether Ems will pitiably lave to be added to the list ere
the Mal temignes. Om of the limn panful eines-
, Menses thit le the carelememe width breaght the diem-
, our about, asi the bombings that it iedisatee—however
Mho, impostors say b. appointad or woe pennies may
ba nage he ter scanty—of any mease rung atheism!
y diminish the mortality from these cum.
The ealiktry Is me at Biagio' Clough, new Stone Clough,
six or sevennales from Maachester, and Whop to Magi.
Isowles and Stott. The shaft is about 103 yards deep, and
W vela of seal, which ia about six feet thick, has been
walked to the east about SD yude, from when., a
level IN serried at right males tewarda the north
for 130 yards, and thin sir off for 40 yards again to
W eon; sad it was at the extreme psiat of this linel when
the explosion moaned. There were einem eels,. I. the
pit, and than had demented between five and mix o'eloek
yesterday moraisg. At the Meseta they met the oveeiooker,
who had siumbeed the workbags to My the sir, cad reported
all of them boa hem darner except the farthest point of the
lust. In this be maid the en wee foal, and divested that no
me sheath begla to work then. Yet at baboon six to wren
In the insenleg • young man. named Peter Teem denoted
kis tat—W- le go there foe • tub of sleek" (small ail)
cad persisted k den; so, denies all remeateranee from the
other weelmage. His two " battles " (or fellow.nolunen
Mimi* to his gamer oomeany) went with his. Their
manes an John Saw sad Jam Lever, and so lacaution
were they that although provided with safety lamps they
went with a sand sandhi. Oa reaching the las and of the
bay, Some ie saki so have fleshed " the light up to see if
there was any demos; sad in en Menai then
was as expiation like the dieekerge of • pins of artil-
lery. Lone was in the dim* way of the sanest,
Whielt the Embalm of entree followed, sad his life was
seerlficed la an inetaston would Ikon it a hundred pigeons
had they been is the same direction. The top albs poor
fellow's shall was blows of, sad his beans were scattered
anat. Tinge was suffocated with the smoke end Malone of
the ale whish onesseded the mpledon. Sterne is fearfully
seethed with the flash of tho implosion, though the Sr.
lasted bat for • very Mort period, and his life is in great
daisies. The other workmen, with oae oneption, were all
la bays (or " sada," as the 'oilier. all them), off the main
level or drift way, and the ventilation of the miss=
good, the flab of light, en the ignition of the emirs'
peat them, and they manned ao injury. Tim exception was
~youth named Diadem, who was in the watticepway at the
time, toward. the bottom of the shaft, and though • bombed
nude or so from the point where the explosion commenced,
he was struck by the flee and very badly horned. His
father was la the bay adjoining that where the
Zdtmoaned, sad rushed to the rescue of the poor
our be would have been suffocated. The ventilation
of Mae pit was mat as to enable persons to be get in
elliMt an hour of the mearrence, and the other Italian
meth rescued, and the dead bodies of Toone and Lever
knight eat of the mine before Mae o'clock. Tongs leaves
a widow and two Maim ; Levu was a single man. Stones
las a wife sad four children for whom he will not be able to
provide fee some swaths, should he ever recover. Notice
has been forwarded to the Secretary of State, eo that Mr.
Tremenheere, the inspector of aolliertes, may have an °pear-
lenity of being et at the toques ; but imbues • state of
dinipline be in mines of this deseriptioa which shall
render it impossible lot impend at or obstiaate colliers to
plan the lives et their fellow workman in peril, the appoint-
ment of this officer, long looked forward to, add received
with so math sath sohotion by the pubic, promisee to be of
little avail. It would seem to be desirable that la every mine
tither the colliers Amid be compel ed to work coasteatly
with safety lamps (sad set merely have them in readiness
to be used when they think there is danger, as in this cam),
or that there should be as meriether coastantly in the work.
Munn merely to amnia. and report en the safety adherent
pergola. of the mine, bat with legal power to enforce •
proper discipline anon( the workmen by musing them to
observe his direction.. The public are probably but little
aware how many line are nabbed fa mines of this descrip-
tion, enwithstanding the frequent newspaper notices of these
appalling sodding ; for it is enly when a dun sr a more of
'lives are log et once that such things generally find their way
into print. Tee tome and threes are pawed over usnoticth,
yet how fearfully they often swell op when the aigrettete
ogees to be told ! It is not many week* ago sines a 'other
pointed out to me • angle mine in which be said something
like four hundred lives bad bees lost since it was lost oath.
I learn that a person at Birmingham ins an haventien Gr
preveating these explogoos, but is keeping it back be the
Gnat Industrial Exhibition.
Two railway accidentsmitered in this neighbourhood,
yesterday, oa the Leaden and North Western Lines, but owe
of them wee not attended with lose of life. It took plan on
the Huddersfield breech, and a number of carriages were
smashed, bat that was all. The other was on the Lathan
line, about three miles oat of Manchester, soon
after aim o'clock in the nerving. It was on the
high embankment near the Isvensbulme Station.
Toe train was one from Blanchester, and bad no looney
paand the bridge which conies the line over the Stockport
road then the driver perceived, about 50 yards a-head of
him, an old man standing with as appearance of nnetneen
es the ep..line wash the train was traversing. Ho !evened
the mirth caused the brakes to be applied, and sounded ea
alarm with the whistle so lose and load that the whole vil-
lage was engird at ft ; bat the man for whom the alarm was
latended paid so atteithicre, and was sweet down and killed
is the Instant. His same was William Pickering. He was
114 years of .11., sad of weak intellect. His friends rends at
Groat Drim.ld in Yorkshire, and bad placed him In lodgings
at Levenshulute. With what view be got upon the line is
sat knew', but Ogre is no road in that diem% on, and he
mum have nosed • field from Leyouhalge to reach the
thebealtment. Of entree there is no blame attributable in
my way to my of the servants of the railway company.
The papal eacroachmeate are calling forth strong tepee.-
aims of opinion here as elsewhere. A meeting of the clergy
was bold ninthly et the commencement of the week at the
Cathedral Cnapter•botue, where • letter from the Dollop of
Manchester (given in another column) was read, approving
of the steps they were taking to protest against the pro-
ceedings of hie hollow; bat • mote Important meeting is
summoned by the churchwardens for Thursday next is the
Free Tiede Hall. It has been called upon a tsquisition
from upwerds of 400 of the !sadism inhabitants and firms,
and will no doubt be a very numerous and influential. ga-
thering.