DREADFUL COAL-PIT EXPLOSION
... On Wednesday mTrurit lsts, intelligence was brought into Whitehaven that a tremendous explosion of carburetted hydrogen gas had taken place in one of the coal-pits be- longing to H. Curwen. Esq., of Workiligton Hall. situate at Lowca, between three and four miles from this town. 1The pit at which this awful catastrophe occurred is called f John Pitt. Around tthe mouth of this pit on ...