 | Thomas Thomson - Agriculture - 1813 - 514 pages
...being on a crane not within the influence of the blast, were fortunately preserved. The coal du=t, ejected from the William Pit into the drift or horizontal...explosion was heard, the wives and children of the workmen ran to the working-pit. Wildness and terror were pictured in every countenance. The crowd from... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - Agriculture - 1813 - 530 pages
...pullies of the John Pit gin, being on a crane not within the influence of the blast, were fortunately preserved. The coal dust, ejected from the .William...of the tube, was about three inches thick, and soon byrnt to a light cinder. Pieces of burning coal, driven oft' the solid stratum. of the 'mine, were... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1814 - 830 pages
...John Pit gin, being on a crane not within the influence of the blast, were fortunately preserved. 1 be coal dust, ejected from the William Pit into the drift...the explosion was heard, the wives and children of workmen ran to the working-pit. Wildness and terror were pictured in every countenance. The •;.•..!... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 546 pages
...pullies of the John Pit gin, being on a, crane not within the influence of theblast, were fortunately preserved. The coal dust, ejected from the William...explosion was heard, the wives and children of the workmen ran to the working-pit. Wildness and terror were pictured in every countenance. The crowds... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 540 pages
...William Pit into the drift or horizontal parls of the tube, was about three inches thick, and soon hurnt to a light cinder. Pieces of burning coal, driven off the solid stratum of the niine, were also blown up this shaft. As soon as the explosion was heard, the wives and children of... | |
 | Rev. Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - Natural history - 1818 - 566 pages
...pullies of the John Pit gin, being on a crane not within the influence of the blast, were fortunately preserved. The coal dust, ejected from the William...explosion was heard, the wives and children of the workmen ran to the working-pit. VVildness and terror were pictured in every countenance. The crowds... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1823 - 854 pages
...pullies of the John Pit gin, being on a crane not within the influence of the blast, were fortunately preserved. The coal dust, ejected from the William...explosion was heard, the wives and children of the workmen ran to the working-pit. Wildness and terror were pictured in every countenance. The crowd from... | |
 | John Sykes - Durham (England : County) - 1824 - 400 pages
...both the shaft-frames were blown off, their sides set on fire, and their pullies shattered to pieces. Pieces of burning coal, driven off the solid stratum of the mine, were blown up one of the shafts. In this calamity 91 men and boys perished. The few men who were saved,... | |
 | John Sykes (of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.) - Durham (England : County) - 1833 - 426 pages
...pullies of the John Pit gin, being on a crane not within the influence of the blast, were fortunately preserved. The coal dust ejected from the William...explosion was heard, the wives and children of the workmen ran to the working pit ; wildness and terror were pictured in every countenance. The crowds... | |
 | Eneas Mackenzie, Marvin Ross - Durham (England : County) - 1834 - 668 pages
...like early twilight, and covered the roads so thickly, that footsteps were strongly imprinted in it ; pieces of burning coal, driven off the solid stratum of the mine, were also blown up one of the shafts. By twelve o'clock those who had escaped with life had ascended by the gin rope :... | |
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Pit gin, being on a crane not within the influence of the blast, were fortunately preserved. The coal dust, ejected from the William Pit into the drift or horizontal parts of the tube, was about three inches thick, and soon burnt to a light cinder. Pieces... 
