“ In less than a quarter of an hour after this conversation took place, the water began to run more freely through the chink, and the two drifters becoming rather alarmed, sent the boy to apprize two other men, who were working near them, of the state of the mine; also directed him to go to the crane, where the corves of coal are delivered from the boardways into the waggon or rolly-way, and acquaint the whole of the men in the pit of the danger. The youth asserts, that no one was at the crane when he reached it: but this is altogether improbable ”

“ His companions hearing him fall down, one of them hastily went to his assistance, and, though others who were present insisted on his tying a rope round his waist, he, through over anxiety to save his comrade, instantly descended without it, but had scarcely reached the bottom of the ladder with a rope in his hand to fasten to the other man, when he himself was so affected by the air, that he could only give some tremulous shrieks or cries, but being totally unable to help himself, he also fell down. ”

“ A baker passing with his cart, took them all up—the woman and children into the body of the cart, and the man upon the fore part of it with himself. As soon as they attempted to cross the ford, the cart was carried away by the force of the stream, and turned over. The woman and children, together with the horse, were drowned: the blind man was saved by his dog, a rope from which was fastened round his wrist. ”

“ In a room above the shop, two individuals were sitting drinking a glass of toddy, and while in the act of interchanging friendly conversation, the grate, as if endowed with the powers of locomotion, suddenly moved from its proper position, and at the same moment one of the interlocutors was pitched to the "far corner of the appartment." The other who is a very heavy man, stuck like a rock to his first position, and it is believed that his superior specific gravity prevented him from being put to any inconvenience. ”

“ For this purpose, a drift was driven in a direction to perforate the old workings; near Heaton Burn, a little to the north, and by east of the hall, where the remains of numerous pit-heaps are to be seen. An up-cast dike of eight fathoms had just been passed through: this should have served to point out the spot where the miners of former times were, from necessity, likely to suspend their labours; and now all due precaution should have been used to guard against impending danger. ”

“ The 2d battalion of the 8th regiment having been relanded a few days since, their baggage and ammunition were placed on Point Beach, where they remained till this morning, when an old woman emptying a pipe which she had been smoking among the baggage, the sparks fell on a barrel of gunpowder, and an instant explosion took place. The effect was most dreadful. About thirty men, women and children, were literally blown to atoms, and the remains of their bodies, limbs, and heads, are strewed in all directions. ”

“ Each, attended by a second, ascended his car, loaded with blunderbusses, as pistols could not be expected to be efficient in their probable situations. A great multitude attended, hearing of the balloons, but little dreaming of their purpose: the Parisians merely looked for the novelty of a balloon race. ”

“ Miller, were shut up in the workings towards the rise of the colliery, either to perish by hunger, or die for want of respirable air; and twenty-four hours elapsed before the water rose to twenty-five fathoms in the engine pit, if it could even then displace the air confined in the higher part of the mine. Some faint expectations were entertained during the course of the first day, that a communication might be opened to these unhappy people, by uncovering and descending through one of the old shafts, at Heaton Banks ”

“ Mr W. Johnstone, grocer and spirit dealer, had a cask containing about 20lbs. of gun-powder, which, from whatever cause, had become too damp to be saleable, and which he rather incautiously placed behind the counter, within a few feet of the shop fire. To aid, we presume, the drying process, the top of the barrel had been taken off, and its place supplied by one or more sheets of stout brown paper. ”

“ When the fermenting vat was to be cleaned, though the men had been always strictly enjoined to have a large piece taken out on the previous night, and also to put down some burning coals, and afterwards to throw a quantity of water, in order to expel the new air, yet, from mere negligence, one of them without even trying the simple experiment of sending blown a lighted candle, rashly descended into the vat, and was suffocated in a moment. ”

“ On the afternoon of that day, a respectable young man was employed in feeding the thrashing-mill, when thinking that the grain was going in too thick, and that it might tend to choke the machinery, he incautiously put in his left hand with a view of withdrawing the superfluous straw. ”

“ The workings are carried on in the high main coal, from the di (illegible text) where the engine pits are sunk to the idepth (illegible text) about eighty fathoms, towards the rise, where they may be twenty-five fathoms, covering (illegible text) the seam, but here the present owners have p (illegible text) down no shafts. The inclination of the stra (illegible text) is nearly east and by south. ”

“ Another sufferer from the severity of the storm was a young woman of the name of Sellers, likewise a resident in Goatland. The most pressing entreaties of her friends at Whitby could not prevail with her to stay the night ”

“ Notwithstanding what he had experienced, his humanity prompted him to make a second attempt, in which he succeeded in throwing a noose over one of the men’s legs, and he and that man were both drawn out Though very much affected, and greatly exhausted by his second attempt: he insisted on going down a third time for the other man ”