MINE ACCIDENT IN CORNWALL.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2131, 2 November 1875, Page 3

MINE ACCIDENT IN CORNWALL.

At the Great WhealLovell mine near Helston there occurred one of those casualties which specially attend mining, but, fortunately for Cornwall, are unfrequent in metal mines. For some time there has been "bad air" at the 44 fathom level, but three men, named William Johns, John Jenkins;*and Edward' Rogers, went to work there about two o'clock this morning. As they did not return in the ordinary course, a man named Daniel Trelbar, his son, and six others, went down, and at the bottom the atmosphere began to affect the' candles they carried carefully, as in the dimness theygroped their way through the level, and about 200 feet from the main qhaft, Johns was found. Already the rescuing party were beginning to feel overpowered, but .they took off their jackets and swung -them about in the limited space to clear the gas by which they and the senseless man at their feet were surrounded. Not far from where the first victim was picked up Jenkins an<i Eogers were found. They were all insensible. William Tonkin, one of therfirst to go after the missing ones, was by this time so overcome that he became stupefied. Daniel Trelosr and his son, who had actively exerted themselves, were also exhausted, and the latter, whose father had been up and down three times, was lashed to the ladder fourteen fathoms up, or he would have fallen and been dashed to pieces in the depth below. After hours of toiling the shaftsmen and those who had gone to their relief were all brought out.