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ANSION-TIOUSE
of the SUFFERER
EXPLOSIONS.

FUND for the RELIEF
by the recent COLLIERY

EDWARD RARPER, Secretary.

The Right lion tl
R. C. L. Bevan, Esq.
Samuel Morley, Esq.
Geo. Moore, Esq.
Mr. Alderman
J. P. Gassiot, Esq.
Christopher T. Gabriel, Esq.
Frederick Thompson, Esq.
R. A. Gray, Esq.
Colonel Stuart Wortley.
The f the

he LORD MAYOR.
Mr. Alderman and Sheriff
Wate,rlow.
Mr. Sheriff Lycett.
Mr. Alderman liesley.
Mr. Alderman•Dakiu.
James Hill, Esq.
R. N. Fowler, Esq.
W.J. Maxwell; Esq.
Mr. Alderman Cotton.
lie is earnestly drawn to the
terrible calamity produced by

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suffering consequent on the

Established 1821.
No. 11. Lombard-street, London, B.C.
REDUCTION OF FIRE INSMIANCE DUTY.
f,ubseribed Capital, Two Million..
Total Invested Fundt u: wards of £2 7.50.000.
Total Income upwards of £320,000.

the recent collic;ry explosions.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are greatly needed to relieve the
numerous families made destitute thereby.
The amount required to meet the memorable Hartley
Colliery Accident in 1862 was £50,000 ; in that case 204
men and boys lost their lives ; in the present instance
double that number are believed to have perished, there-
fore to make a suitable provision for the families depen-
dent upon them, about £lOO,OOO will be needed. At the
final distribution of the surplus of the Hartley Fund,
£3,140 was allotted to the districts in which the present
accidents occurred, and this sum is now available towards
the fund now being raised.
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales
H.R.H. the Princess of Wales
The Corporation of London
Amount already advertised £9,004 18 0

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The Oaks Colliery Explosion.

BARNSLEY, Wednesday Evening.

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North Staffordshire Colliery Explosion.

HANLEY, Wednesday Evening.
The sump at the North Staffordshire Coal and
Iron Company's pit at Talke has been emptied, and
together with the entire workings, been completely
examined, without the discovery of any additional
corpses. The exact number of deaths by the ex-
plosion is, therefore, 91.

The general committee for the relief of the per-
sons bereaved, held a meeting this afternoon ; Mr.
Smith Child in the chair ; at which the following
resolution was adopted :—" That in the opinion of
this committee the following scale of relief should
he adopted, subject to alteration by this committee
if circumstances arise to render it desirable, viz.:—
To each widow, ss. per week ; to each child, is. 6d.
per week ; to any infirm adult dependent at the
time of the accident on one of the killed, in each
case a sum not exceeding ss. per week. The com-
mittee will require the children on whose account
they make payments be sent to school, the school
fees being provided out of the fund. In case of this
rule not being strictly complied with the weekly
payment will be discontinued." It will be seen by
this resolution that the amountof relief to be granted
is much smaller than in the case of the Hartley acci-
dent, and that there is no danger of the poor people
being pampered, as was alleged in the case of Hartley.
This committee has also decided that a marriage
portion of £5 shall be given to each widow marry-
ing again, whereas at Hartley the marriage portion
to each widow was £2O. It was further resolved,
WiAtk thi4,o9l44o44lficttiftd Ate. a_vamatbr

Staffordshire Coal and Iron Company (Li[lifted),
and with their resident `manager, Mr. Johnson, and
to express its admiration of the liberality with
which they have come forward to relieve the dis-
tress caused by the late disastrous explosions at
their colliery." In the course of conversation, Mr.
Gemmell, the treasurer, stated that he had received
a letter from the Rev. Charles Kemble, rector of
Bath, reporting that £467 6s. id. had been col-
lected in that city, of which one-fifth, or
£9l 9s. 3d., would be appropriated to Talke. The
Rev. C. P. Wilbraham •inquired upon what
principle one-fifth had been allotted to Talke, and
the chairman replied that as 360 lives had been lost
at Barnsley and 90 at Talke, the proportion of loss
at the latter place was just one-fifth of the whole.
Mr. Roden, mayor of Hanley, said he had received
a letter froin-Mr.,Patrick Beales, Mayor of Cam-
bridge, asking 'whether it was true that there was a
large surplus froth the Hartley Relief Fund, which
was available for the sufferers by this explosion.
Such an impression existed at Cambridge, and
tended to check subscriptions. The chairman said
the impression was certainly an erroneous one. The
amount appropriated to the North Staffordshire
mining district from the surplus of the Hartley
fund was between £5OO and £6OO, and the in-
terest on the sum, which was all that was avail-
able, was rather more than £BO.
Additional subscriptions, amounting to about
£5OO, have been received.

Facts with regard to this sad event are only few
to-day. Nevertheless. the interest is kept up by
various means. A story, which to some seemed most
credible,- obtained circulation to-day that several
French engineers, with a sort of diving-bell,
had descended, or were about to descend,
the shaft. We need scarcely say that no
such thing was ever attempted. The work
of carrying out the resolution passed at
a meeting of engineers on Monday is being carried
out. The scaffolding which is to be lowered down
the No. 2 shaft is being constructed as quickly as
possible, as well as the pipe to allow the enst to
escape. A meeting of local engineers was held at
the office this morning, when means for carrying
out the former resolution was discussed, and the
necessary orders were given. The state of the mine
is about the same as it was on Monday and yester-
day. The spoil in the furnace and No. 1 shafts sub-
sides only a little.
Mr. Normansel, the secretary of the South York-
shire Miners' Association, at a meeting held yester-
day evening in Barnsley, made an interesting speech,
which shows that the association is taking the ques-
tion of relief up in a very liberal manner. He said
that the executive had allowed each widow ss. per
week since the explosion, and each child ls. whose
father was a member of the union. The funds had
become distressed, but they hoped that with the as-
sistance of the trades unions throughout the coun-
try to be able to carry their rules. Subscriptions
were coming in, and that day £3OO had been sent
from a Sheffield trade union unasked for. Each
widow whose husband had fallen a victim to the
explosion, and whose bodies had been recovered, had
received £8 funeral money, and those whose husbands
were still in the pit had received £4, the other half
being reserved until the bodies were recovered, or
for a time. The Executive had also made grants
to the widows and relatives of those who were not
members in sums varying from 30s. to £2. Not
less than £6O had also been spent in meat for
Christmas dinners, which were dealt out in 41bs. to
each widow, and lib. to every child. Members and
non-members were alike the recipients of this
charity. The relief committee had not as then
given a penny in relief. The Executive hoped to be
able to meet the wants of the widows and orphans,
andA twtohueldfodrtoniagllhtinlytmheeiertng of the p
poweri to do so.
guar-
dians a number of applicationsfor relief oor-
were law
mad
e
.
yesterday afternoon. In addition to the usual
elected guardians, the Rev. 11. B. Cooke and E. B.
Benat. u mont, Esq., two ex offl
n liberally which
cio members, were pre-
seThe g uardiai ns ,t
ea, te
f tdeerarsmhionretd o dea
ditsc ussiol
took place iu prva
with the applications. The number of those who
applied was not so large as it was expected, but it
seems that the poor sufferers understood that the
meeting would be held at the usual hour, one
o'clock, instead of which it was held at nine, in con-
sequence of the Christmas holidays and market day.