... forwarded by the steamer for this port. Until their arrival the owners are withontanyaccount of how the disaster happened. The circumstances of the disaster are related by the survivors. John Riordan, the boatswain, who was washed ashore on a bale of cotton ...

... thought the partridse had been left in the road to poison the game. TIIE WIGAN PIT ACCIDENT. The inquest en the bodies of the seven men killed lately at the Alexandra Pit, Haigh, near Wigan,,throngh an accident to the cage ' was resumed and concluded ...

... neighbourhood of the pit trembled. and an additional and much denser volume of black smoke and dust shot from the mouth of the shaft. The inhabitants of the cottages surrounding Svvaithe House, which is only fifty yards from the pit bank, rushed to the ...

... losing 2,600 men and seventeen guns. On the 18th Grant invested Vicksburg, and on the 19th General Steele carried the rifle pits on the north of the city. The right of Gen. Grant's army rests upon the Mississippi, boys Vicksburg. No estimates ;re given ...

... losing 2,600 men and seventeen guns. On the 18th Grant invested Vicksburg, and on the 19th General Steele carried the rifle pits on the north of the city. The right of Gen. Grant's army rests upon the Mississippi, hove Vicksburg. No estimates are given ...

... or Gethin pit, the property of Mr. Crawil the extensive iron-master of Cyfartha, is the largest district, employing upwards of 200 men, and is about 8 distant between Merthyr-Tydvil and Troedyrhiw. At % on Wednesday, the overlooker at the pit's month had ...

... deceased. • NARRATIVES OF SURVIVORS, A young man who was seated in the pit gives the following description of the scene :—Wheut entered the pit I found it as full as ever I saw it before; the pit was crammed. All went right until Mr. Fred. Cone had got to the ...

... when he has a red coat on, needs no officers and knows no fear; and when they are told the real state of the case, they are cruelly undeceived, become angry, and, as usual, quarrel with The Times. The only remedy against such disasters for the future ...

... of the pit after the explosion. He considered that the arrangements of the pit were defective, but at the same time he pointed out that it was necessary to take into account the great barometrical fluctuations experienced at the time the disaster occurred ...

... fat a line of rifle-pits, from which they poured in upon us a heavy fire, while in tie woods on our right. They also had infantry posted, so that as our men advanced they were met by a concentrated fire of musketry from the rifle-pits and the lower front ...

... keep off the intolerable glare. Along its sides are heaped up the strong-scented produce of Arabia and India. Ochrous earths, red and yellow, are stored in casks, strange twisted roots, mishanpen berries, and clear glassy gums are spread in shallow baskets ...

... for admission to the boxes, and is. to the pit, the galleries being free to the public generally. Ally surplus was to be devoted to the object of the society. The galleries were filled to overflowing, the pit was nearly tilled, but there was a very thin ...