ANNUAL 
another melancholy accident hap- 
510 
pened at Messrs. Neshamand Co’s 
colliery, at Newbottle, in the 
county of Durham. The proprie- 
tors had provided a powerful loco- 
motive steam-engine, for the pur- 
pose of drawing 10. or 12 coal- 
waggons to the staith at one time ; 
and Monday being the day it was 
to be put in motion, a great num- 
berof persons belonging tothe col- 
liery had collected to see it; but 
unfortunately, just as it was going 
off, the boiler of the machine burst. 
The engine-man. was dashed to 
pieces, and his mangled remains 
blown 114 yards; the top of the 
boiler (nine feet square, weight 19 
wt.) was blown 100 yards: and 
the two cylinders 90 yards. A 
little boy was also thrown to a 
great distance. By this accident 
57 persons were killed and wound- 
ed, of whom.11 were dead on Sun- 
day night, and several remain dan- 
gerously ill. —The cause of the ac- 
cident is accounted for as follows : 
the engine-man said, “as there 
were several owners and viewers, 
there, he would make her (the en- 
gine) go in grand style,” and he 
had got upon the boiler to Joose 
the screw of the safety-valve, but 
being overheated, it unfortunately 
exploded. | It will be recollected, 
that at the fatal blast which re- 
cently took place at this colliery, 
the first who: arrived at the bank, 
holding by a rope, was a little:/boy 
about six or seven years of age. 
The .poor little fellow is among 
the number dead. 
en Seeeeeneete eee eee 
VOLCANO OF ALBAY IN THE 
INDIAN OCEAN. 
A dreadful eruption of this 
REGISTER, 
1815. 
volcano took place on the Ist day 
-of February, 1814. 
This volcanic mountain is situ- 
ated in the province of Camarines, 
on the southern part of the island 
of Lugon, or Lugonia, one of the 
Philippine isles in the Indian 
Ocean. 
Vive populous towns were en- 
tirely destroyed by the eruption; 
more than 1200 of the inhabitants 
perished amidst the ruins; and the 
20,000 who survived the awful 
catastrophe were stript of their 
possessions and reduced to beg~ 
gary. 
The following account of this 
awful visitation was drawn up by 
an eye-witness, and intended as 
an appeal to the charitable feel- 
ings of the inhabitants of the Ma- 
nilla Islands. 
‘«« Morethan]3yearshadelapsed, 
during which the volcano of Al- 
bay, by some called Mayon, had 
preserved a continued and pro- 
found silence, without giving the 
least sign of its existence. It was 
no longer viewed with that dis- 
trust and horror, with which vol- 
canoes usually inspire these who 
inhabit the vicinity, In the year 
1800 its last eruptions took place, 
in which it emitted a great quan- 
tity of stones, sand, and ashes (as 
had always been usual), and oc- 
casioned considerable damage to 
the same villages that it has now 
completely destroyed; rendering 
useless a great number of fertile 
fields, which thenceforth were 
converted into arid and frightful 
sands. In the latter part of Oc- 
tober of. that year, the last erup- 
tion happened, and caused more 
damage to those villages, 
«Since that time wehad not re- 
marked any circumstance indica 
