 | Thomas Thomson - 1813 - 514 pages
...these blasts, and rose high into the air, in .the form of an inverted cone. The heaviest part of the ejected matter, such as corves, pieces of wood, and...-:/•• pit to the distance of a mile and a half. In fithe village of Heworth, it caused a darkness like that of early twilight, and covered the roads so... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - 1813 - 530 pages
...these blasts, and rose high into the air, in the form of an inverted cone. The heaviest part of the ejected matter, such as corves, pieces of wood, and...small coal, fell near the pits; but the dust, borne »way by a strong west wind, fell in a continued shower from the 1813.] Accident at Felling Colliery.... | |
 | 1814 - 564 pages
...these blasts, and rose high into the air, in the form of an inverted cone. The heaviest part of the ejected matter, such as corves, pieces of wood, and...shower from the pit to the distance of a mile and a half. As soon as the explosion was heard, the wives and children of the workmen ran to the workingpit.... | |
 | 1814 - 556 pages
...these blasts, and rose high into the air, in the form of an inverted cone. The heaviest part of the ejected matter, such as corves, pieces of wood, and...continued shower from the pit to the distance of a mile ami a half. As soon as the explosion waa be rd, the wives and children of the workmen ran to the workingr... | |
 | 1814 - 570 pages
...these blasts, and rose high into the air, in the form of an inverted cone. The heaviest part of the ejected matter, such as corves, pieces of wood, and small coal, fell near (he pits; but the dust, borne away by a strong west wind, fell in a continued shower from the pit to... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 546 pages
...these blasts, and rose high into the air, in the form of an inverted cone. The heaviest part of the ejected matter, such as corves, pieces of wood, and...a continued shower from the pit to the distance of ;i mile and a half. In the village of Heworth, it caused a darkness like that of early twilight, and... | |
 | Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - 1817 - 928 pages
...these blasts, and rose high into the air, in the form of an inverted cone. The heaviest part of the ejected matter, such as corves, pieces of wood, and...shower from the pit to the distance of a mile and a half. As sop** " the explosion was heard, the wives and children of the workmen ,,tn to the working-pit.... | |
 | Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - 1817 - 902 pages
...these blasts, and rose high into the air, in the form of an inverted cone. Tne fceavi. est part of the ejected matter, such as corves, pieces of wood, and...small coal,, fell near the pits; but the dust, borne avr.iy by a strong west wind, feu in a continued shower from the pit to the distance of a mile and... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 788 pages
...these blasts, and rose high into the air, in the form of an •averted cone. The heaviest part of the ejected matter, such as corves, pieces of wood, and...shower from the pit to the distance of a mile and a half. As soon as the explosion was heard, the wives and children of the workmen ran to the pit ; the... | |
 | 1822 - 184 pages
...hea»iest part of the ejected matter, such as corves, pieces of wnod, and small-coal, fell near the pitsj but the dust, borne away by a strong west wind, fell...continued shower from the pit, to the distance of a milts and a half. As soon as the explosion was heard, the wives and children of the workmen ran to... | |
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Immense quantities of dust and small coal accompanied these blasts, and rose high into the air, in .the form of an inverted cone. The heaviest part of the ejected matter, such as corves, pieces of wood, and small coal, fell near the pits... 
