The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-02 00:00:00

SERIOUS COLLIERY ACOIDEN2 NEAR

BARNSLEY.

Shortly after six o'clock yesterday morning con-
siderable consternation was created in the Barnsley
district by a rumour that the Strafford Main Col-
liery, of which Mr. Parry, M.P. for Boston, is one
of the principal proprietors as well as manager, had
" fired." Soon the road leading to the colliery was
thronged with factory hands and miners, and the
greatest excitement prevailed in Barnsley and the
neighbourhood. On reaching the pit hill it was found
that the men, who had just commenced work, had
had a very narrow escape indeed. Whilst at work at
the first jenny, on the north side, some 400 yards
from the bottom, a large fall of roof took place, dis-
placing a large quantity of gas, which the men did not
immediately discover. The outbreak was first noticed
by one of the miners, who perceived the flickering
of his lamp, and with great presence of mind put
out several which were hanging up for those who
were in charge of the corves. A rush was then made
to the bottom by the men on the north side, but so
powerful was the gas that several of them were
completely overpowered. Amongst those who all
but succumbed were John Waites, Dordworth ; Job
Fawley, William Walsh, and Allen Littlewood.
W hen all the men on the north side were supposed
to have been got out, it was found that two or three
were missing. Several of the men then went down,
and found Fawley and Waites quite exhausted and
all but gone. To show the sympathetic feeling which
exists on such occasions between colliers in the total
abnegation of self, it is worthy of being recorded that
as Waites was the man most affected, and been left
alone with Fawley, who had also inhaled a large
quantity of sulphur, the latter, unaided, got Waites
into a corve, and, with an almost expiring effort,
was trying to push it towards the bottom, when he
was relieved by the men who came in search of
them. Both, on being brought to the top, were
prostrated, and had to be removed home in a cart.
So sudden and unexpected was the outburst of gas
that one of the men was brought up in the cage to
the top in a complete state of nudity, and was
favoured with a pair of trousers by the steward,
whilst a boy, named Padgett, was carried by another
of the colliers quite prostrated. The men working
on the south side were not aware of the accident for
some time after it occurred.

THE OAKS COLLIERY. —Yesterday the men who
were at work in the Oaks Colliery came upon a number of
bodies in the box hole. One of the searchers was named
Sugden, and he immediately identified the body of his
father, who was one of those who were entombed in the
pit. The elder Sugden's body was quite perfect, the clothes
and the features entire. At about the same time the body
of David Tewart was also discovered, and it was in about
as good a condition as that of Sugden. The watch and
snuffbox of the last named man were found upon him quite
perfect.
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in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and no disposition to dis-
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