COLLIERS ENTOMBED.
An explosion occurred at Ingram's colliery, Stormhill, Yorkshire, on July 4, which U d to the f ntombment of 130 miners. The day shift went to work as usual in the morning, and all went well until noon, when the workers at the pit's mouth were startled by a muffled explosion, and clouds of dense smoke came rolliDg up the main shaft. The pit managers at once organised a party and descended slowly through the smoke. They were driven back repeatedly and eventually gave up their purpose of penetrating to the workings before the foul gas should clear away the smoke. After taking up the bodies found at the bottom of the shaft the rescue party waited for several hours before making another descent. About the middle of the evening they went down again. The gas had cleared off near the shaft, and they were able to examine part of the workings. The bodies of the miners lay in heaps. About 110 operatives were dead, and eight men and boys all told were rescued alive from the mine. All hope for the others in the pit was abandoned.
The usual cause is assigned for the casualty — carelessness in opening a lamp.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1851, 17 August 1893, Page 14
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