COAL MINES. 395 
.%ti( ^ '^‘stanccj and much. rc.semhled an unsteifcly fire 
'juantllies of clast and small coal acccmpanled 
>'nse higrli into the air, in the form of an 
Corves 
The heaviest part of the ejected matter, 
nj[ pieces of- wood, and small coal, fell near the 
^'^titHirj *^*''**’ nway by r. stronf^ west w'ind, fell 
shower from the pit to the distance of a mile 
•is'^^'lr'e explosion was heard, the wives 
jwsij of the workmen rail to die pit ; the scene was 
H '^■'e power of description. 
titjj^^'joclred and twenty-eight persons in the mine 
the explosion, only thirty-two were 
■ I'veiuy-ninc survived the fatal combu 
ii explosion 
and twenty-eiglit persons m the mine 
N. explosion, only thirty-two were brought 
-nine survived the fatal combustion, the 
from the time of the explosion 
^'Nttsy ®^ July, could any person descend. But after 
j^';>ClQjp^®^sful attempts to explore die burning mine, it 
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to prevent die atmospheric air from entering 
done, no attempt was afterwards made to ex- 
e morning of the last-mentioned day ; lloiii 
tonti? September, die heart-rending 
ST't Soil . ^ widows examining the putrid bodies 
\ j't'd husbands, for raai'ks by which to identify 
VrUo,.,^®J^tiost daily renewed; but very few of dieni 
“y ^ny personal mark, — they were too much 
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'oba ^t^°tohed to retain any of their features. Their 
'tide- shoes, and the like, were, tlicrcfore. 
by which they could be recognised, 
iike riventy-one bodies lay in ghastly confusion : 
Q ^®tomies, scorched as dry as if they were 
K (A "’"ntod its head, another an arm. The 
^7 b'ighiful. The power of lire was visible 
' * 0 th„ but its cilects were extremely variable: 
luni lo pieces, there were others 
if they had sunk down overpowered by 
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.jjbnost 
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tif ''’^en *' 1 '' conoktded-on Saturday the igdi of Sep- 
■ *'totieg ninety-first body was dug from under a 
j ij-“y cj-j, -^1 six o’clock in tlie morning the pit was 
Of ®'bght, which had not been used in it for 
**' file *'nndred and seventeen da)'s ; and at eleven 
tooruing the tube-furnace was lighted. From 
