The weekly sun., 1862-02-15
The English Colliery AocideI
THRILLING DETAILS.

Tho English papers con ain details OF
dreadful secineat, 1t the Hartley New Pit,
Newcastle, England, involving a loss Of prot
over 2oU lives. Tbs accident occurred at lc s.
on tie morning e January 18Th. The leer,-r
ing history 10 ,us fvllowsi
HI ii taken pace q Little later In the day
~ cts would have hc-n comparatively tnhu z,
the night -bit t'rng la p'ucesz of o,ntng 10 To-
the pit III snort tue wuud have been des. rttd
ou' 81 uetwo hutdI'd tuWevs', WI use hour
AlNr had expired uuly slNGeu had left the sh
and tight mnre wtIe ~ the moment being d..
~ tank in the cage by uf the w,udi
mAChinc. When AuOuI hallway up. the Ue
"i The engine snapped at the axle, and
outer rslf--A mass uf iron, upwa lis Of tive
tons ia woight-telI witt tue v,lucit, OF q WI
Mind and al 'mphPals which dsh-s calcul,til
sheer down the shan The r suit b,iilrs de-t
uun, whNr the horrors wuich presenter them.+
after tie dus, had subsidized are almost beyond i
cepti"n. Tue hGi mass appears to have h
Il uCk the hrnttiCe, which II smashed and ~ ,ttR
like chnr in it, downward career. The iron v,jl
Which tie mt we've riding e. th top WAS sh .ittI
10y the impact, aud its unto tinste inmates u n
whelu.'d hy All nvalan'hr Of dsbris. To TrIi
understand The pusIt OH IL must Ue prem is"d III
tie h'nd or light end Of the beam having anS
the shaft qt the violent o-Cill atoms Of tHr heY
ehd-ii the expression may lie us'd-to ovtrtAk "a
other wound GinR down with crash m lnoon ~
arle amount Of tubhis AMI pl,nklng. Two oi
unfp' tunAt, mrn were Instantly till-d and pred
tate ~ she butto II while three others fingered
very short time after being struck. TIE r-Is'
ing two were also injured, hut not seriously,
after the eNpiiatiIn OF twelve weary hours, dur
which every tNurtiun was made " save them, q
were ultimately rescued and BROUGHT u bank"
TuE ESToMRrD.
BY this catastrophe no less than two hundrj
meu were entombed in the bgwels Of the ear'h.
course people nucked from miles and miles aro'l
and instant ,1nes were made h relieve the uni
tnAtes, but the labor OF cleaning away the dsbh
was immense, and ouls half a dozen men could vol
in the chok,d up shaft ~ IA time. The scen-
Saturday ri angel from that last recorded VIII
change In the aspect ~ the place a short space
fnrty-eight hours has produced Instead Of the I,
ua routine work NJ a coal n ine in active opersu
nothing is u be seen around but groups Of n
suns of 10th seNts watching with eager looks u
monotOnous and unvAried accent and descent O'
ropes hui5tng up the briken timber and rubbl
with which the shat Is cboked, 60 the upper sesf
by which a considerable saving OF time Ia ehtcti
On all sides, whc' ever the eye Ia turnsi, Rroul
and kni l. of pe,ple are seen shstering th"mHciN
nom the biting frosty air behlnd s'o' ,r'is.
pn.je,1iun about the buidines' Numuers
", an many nf them having = ss1d the d-eai,
a, IA LING niybt expose e. the inc'emency OF tf
ueather tlrir sense OF physical pam icing con
/ pletely neutralized ly the anguish ot mind und'
which II cy lahnred, are seen hrund. Toe eN ~
| ment aroused hy the frst nteliyen Of the chtA
truphe mas greatly subaidel, and II has been si
casled 10y feeling ~ patient, hopeful expectation
The wives Of the ienpardHet men phs nom ia
n Mace Uurning their Wal, tear swollen faces fru
sca- cunhrmat IA of their aspirations for the sNie
N those dear - them. Ole poor woman, nAm'
| q iver. has hu ushand and six children, besides
boy whom they have brought up, In the pit. III
| anguish may be imagin,d. Others are similar
situated, though not, per maps, ~ the same eNtsl
Numbers ~ able and experienced miners are hu
rying in from an the surrounding neighoThood' Al
Offering their services.
mention that the elder Sharpe, after becoming CO
cred with the falling rubbish, WAS heard audih
praying, AMI his supplicatipnH ceased with his III
Watson, one OF the uian r scued, lined with nm
Lis prayers and received bis last breath. Sntrpt
wife has, during the day t5iturd,yl been wsiiin
IN the 'll hope " Eer hus1ai d being rescueS y
At one q; the cabins teT the pit' with warm CON
and tncd in expectation that they would be neeit
when her husband WIS brnugUt N bank. Whd
shok te p.or creature III receive whom the afl'c
| ing faot Of his death is communicated ~ hers
urr MEANS or RELIEr ADOPTED.
From Thursday iii Tuesday the work q resc
proceeded, but In vain. Tle condltlun OF the p
women and children residing in the collery Nllla
| nf New Haltley SAYS the correspondent II an I'm
| llsh paper, Ia that Of " n0urhing, limehAtuh A.
woe" Tue ffth night OF the imprisonment OF q
husbands and children 81 me ~"u'en ~, ~ I'Nss s
| veal - us that hule, which has ou YET up
| poor women and cpildren during the pas, hve day
must give way n despair az u is 70 oe feared th
| every .nll v,itnin the pit has persisted.
| Tie gas by which the fur slnlitrs nearly To-
their lives rs very fith " life, II is not found
the workings of the mines in this district as
L uing nun the natural coal in tue seam, But q
4 furnace gent rates II among ether gas. IL Is d
n, minated carbpnc oxide II is light volatile ga
i NJ would, in the opinion Of viewers, find its vi
i into the SHAFT, The men lost below were heard
| 'iowl" in tue shat at o'clock ON Sunday anl
noon, andi' II O. rain that they have NOT been haa
| since. Down 10 and u little beyond that hour ia
| gas would, ~ some extent hnd its way ou Of /
| shah through the interstlces Of the timber ohoki
Up the shan; but, late in the afternoon, II will
rememher,d, there was a heavy fall of stone viii,
would hll It up, and II Ia feared would almost he
metically seal up the shaft.
Eminent medical men are OF fopinion that thous
netrly entering on the seventh day Of their INN 4
on ment, strong men with tolerable air and val
may hold out some time yet. large oonoourse
ptmen about the colliery are inclined 70 be Iolo,
] beAiec'ah'y dressed Persooa arc allowed % 40