The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1866.

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through the workings, on account of their great ex-
tent and the quantity of gas that gathered in the
journey. On this point, however, it is only fair to
say that the heat of the atmosphere was regularly
taken, and that those in charge saw no reason to
anticipate danger from its condition. We understand
that when the explosion of 1846 occured at the Oaks
colliery the pit was a new and comparatively small
one. Since then new shafts have been sunk, acres
of coal have been worked, and the pit is now one
of the most extensive in the district. Its extent is
so great that the more remote workings are said to
lie over two miles from the shafts. The beds of
coal, as our readers are aware, lie under the earth
at a considerable decline, rising towards the sur-
face on one edge, and dipping deep into the bowels
of the earth at the other. In the Oaks colliery,
the coal, which rises above the level of the bottom
of the shaft, has in the main been got, and for some
time the workings have been chiefly in the coal
which is below the level of the bottom of.the shaft.
In miners' phrase they are dip' workings. The
system of working at the Oaks is that known as
the long wall' system. It is not the usaal system
in the South Yorkshire district, but it is considered
to be, on the whole, a safe system. The process
in the' dip' workings may be roughly described as
follows :—From the level of the shaft there is a
broad and steep road following the decline of the
coal. This is called the engine plane.' Roads
branch off from this plane to the right and to the
left. They are level, and from that fact are called
the levels.' The coal is worked from these levels
in breadths, one after another, a substantial wall
being built up the middle of each breadth as the
coal is got, for the double purpose of supporting the
roof, and ventilating the workings by drawing the
current of air from the engine plane and main roads
up one side of the 'breadth' to the place where the
men are at work, whence it passes round the end
of the wall and so down the other side back to
the main way whence it was drawn. The colliery
has two shafs for drawing out coals. They arc
within a few yards of each other, at the point, of
course, where all the workings converge. The air to
ventilate the pit passes down these drawing, or,
as they are called, down-cast,' shafts, and, after
being conducted by an elaborate process of main
roads and workings with a wall up the centre
through all the intricacies of the pit, passes out by
the ventilating or 'up-cast' shaft, which is some 400
or 500 yards distant, and rises from a higher level
than the down-cast shafts. The ventilation of the
pit was promoted by a furnace at the bottom of the
ventilating shaft kept burning for the express pur-
pose of creating a strong draught up the shaft, and
so drawing rapidly away the air which had become
laden with gas in its progress through the work-
ings."
Among the exploring party whose lives have been
sacrificed are :

Mr. Thomas Jeffcock, mining engineer, Derby ;
Mr. Smith, mining engineer, Lundhill ; David
Tewart, underground steward (this was the man
who ventured down with Mr. Dymond after the
first explosion) ; William Sugden, under deputy;
Charles Siddons, under deputy ; Thomas Nadin,
fireman (two sons lost in first explosion) ; William
Stephenson, fireman.
Her Majesty have received intelligence of the
enormous loss of life among her subjects, with that
sympathy so characteristic of her disposition, re-
quested her private secretary, Sir Thomas Biddulph,
to transmit the following message to the chairman
of the Barnsley bench of magistrates :
" Windsor Castle, Thursday Afternoon.

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STAMPED sd.

that he remembered no more till brought to the
surface by the searchers.
The mother-in-law of William Wilson, deceased,
said ho told her that he was blown into a place out
of which he could not extricate himself.
Thomas Bexom, a coal miner, said on Wednes-
day afternoon he was at the White Bear, at Hoyle
N when Thos. Hardcastle was brought there in a
cart. No one there knew him, and witness stopped
to look after him. The deceased had neither trousers
nor boots on, and could not speak for some hours.
Witness stopped with him all night, and he was
properly attended to.
Elina Hardcastle, the widow of Thomas Hard-
castle, deposed that he was an underground labourer.
She saw him at the White Bear Inn on Thursday
afternoon, at which time he appeared to have been
well taken care of. The next morning she saw him
and he was able to speak, but did not tell her any-
thing as to how the calamity had happened. He
was being taken home in a cab, but died when he
had got half way to his home. When he got into
the cab he seemed much exhausted, and said " Lord
help me." He was much burnt on all parts of the
body.

Isabella Abbott, the widow of William Abbott, a
coal getter, said her husband was brought back on
Thursday morning; he did not appear to be at all
injured, and was neither bruised nor burnt.

James Myers, a miner, said the deceased John and
JamesWahnesley were horse drivers, 13 or 14 years
of age. Witness found James at the joiner's shop,
and he was much burnt. He was taken home, and
died last night. Two hours before he died he said,
" Oh dear, will nobody come and take me out ?"
but said nothing as to the occurrence.

Jane Jackson, the widow of Henry Jackson, said
the boy John Jackson was not her own child, but
had been brought to her by her own children three
years ago, and as no one had claimed him she had
adopted him. Her husband was called Thomas
Jackson, was 37 years of age, and was a hurrier.
The boy was 16 years of age. About 4 o'clock on
Wednesday morning her husband, John Jackson,
and her son, William Jackson, who is still in the
1 pit, went to the colliery, and the first two were
brought home again on Thursday morning quite
dead. The lad's neck was broken and also his
shoulder, and her husband was a little burnt.
Other evidence of a similarly painful character
was given, and the inquest, as before stated, stands
adjourned.