The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1862-02-07
The English Colliery Accident.
THRILLING DETAILS.

The English papers contain details of the
dreadful accident, at the Hartley New PIT, near
Newcastle, England, involving a loss Of probably
200 lives. The accident occurred at 10 o'clock
On the morning Il January lsth. The heart-rend.
ing history Is AZ followsi
HID 1t taken place little later In the day lis
= nrct1 would have boen compartt yey trihlng, for
tie might shift being Ia process Of coming b. bank,
the pit In short tune would have been deserted
Out u the two hundred, however, whose hours Of
ahor had expired, only sixteen had len the shaft,
and eight more were at the moment being drawn
10 bank In the cage by means OF the winding
machine. When about halfway up, the beam
~ tie engine snapped at thO axle, and tho
outer half-a mass Of iron, upwards o. twenty
tons In weght-fell, with the velocity OF "A whiri.
wind and an emphasis which deGes calculation,
sheer down the shan. The result b linss descr.l-
tun, while the horrors which presented them sol
after the dust had slbadel are almost beyond con
option. Tho falling mass appears n have first
struck the brattice, which II smashed and ~ altered
like chat in lis downward career. The iron cage in
which Il meu were riding H. the top WAS sh battered
10y the impact, and its unfortunate inmates over
wLelmed by All avalanche OF dsbris. To properly
understand their position Il must be promised that
the bed or light end OF the beam having entered
the shan mss the violent oscillations Of tho heavy
eud-if the expression may he used-tp oyertalle the
other would bring down with a crash ALI incnuneiy-
able amount Of rubbisl and planking. Two of the
unfortunate men were instantly killed and prscipi-
tatd h. the bOttD n while three others fingered only
very short trGe after being struck. Tne remain
ing TWO were alSO injured, but not seriously, aud
after the expiration Of twelve weary boun, during
which every eNertion WAS made n save them, they
we're ultimately rescued and brought h bank"
IsToMBED.
BY this catastrophe no less than two hundred
me. were entOInbed In the bowels Of tire earGL OF
cpur'e people hDcked from nj Oh and miles around
an Instant enrts we're made n relieve tie unior.
tuuat"F, hut the labor of cleaning away the debris
was immense, and only half d,len men could work
In the CHECKED up shaft ut time. The scene on
Saturday al angel from that last recordsd What
change IN tine aspect 81 the place short space OF
fuHy-eigtt hours has produced. Instead Of the US
uil routine work ~ c,a II Ire In active operation
nothing is T. be seen around but groups Of per-
sons Il both sexes watching with eager looks the
mon 1t'nouS and unyaied ascent anil descent ~ the
ropes h'iStins up tie broken timber aud rubbish
with which the shaft IL cbukgd, 10 tine upper seam,
~ VIII Il Considerable saving of tune Is effected.
On al sidea, who ever the eye Is turned, groups
and In n 81 people seen gheltering them selves
from the biting naty air behind every sh.terinR
protection about the buildings. Numbers OF
women, many of them having p used tho dreAIy,
cold, long niyht, exposed to the nciemency Of tho
weather, their sense az physical pain being COM
Ile,ely nsutralized by tue anguish u mind under
"hlch they labored, are seen around, Tao eN 'ite-
meht aroused 10y the first nte,li yoncs Of the Catas.
uophe has greatly Ribsided, and II has been sue
cteitd " feeling OF patient, hopeful expectation.
The wives OF the jeopardized men pNss from place
to place, turning their wan, tear-swOen faces from
one friend ~ another, In the hope Of cleaning
some confirmation ofthfr aspirations for the safety
OF th 80 dear T. them Ore poor woman, named
Diver, Ia l. island aud ak children. b6aiies