Refine Search

HAMSTEAD MINE DISASTER

... HAMSTEAD MINE DISASTER. HOW MIGHT HAVE BEEN PREVENTED At Birmingham, yesterday, Professor Red mayne opened the Home Office inquiry into the recent disaster at Hamstead Colliery, by which twenty-five lives were lost. Mr. Grazebrook. a director, produced ...

Published: Friday 24 April 1908
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 153 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

THE COACHING DISASTER

... prior are SHOCKING COLLIERY ACCIDENT. THREE MEN KILLED. dome pit, 50 red. et the Tk.w kilted, sod the foorth it t mow. The that or W the Wont* Vale er ..hay by Join *own Co. The son Woking air .aft to Reheat* wre hasten to lb. M1..1. a THE OLDHAM HOLIDAYS ...

SCOTTISH MINE DISASTER,

... Operations were commenced yesterday at the pit to extinguish the fire. A hundred yards of gallery are practically a red-hot mass. The roof has fallen in and the way is blocked with debris. The men on duty in the pit have lengths of hose with them, and volumes ...

Published: Wednesday 06 August 1913
Newspaper: Daily Citizen (Manchester)
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 610 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SCOTCH COLLIERY DISASTER

... Colliery Company ab of the pits of the Doni unfermiline. Mcssmorran Moor, six miles east of Seventeen miners were working in a section of No. 12 the disaster occurred. Two pit inspectors Pit, where shaft at the end of the main were making an air is exhausted ...

Published: Tuesday 27 August 1901
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 232 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TILE PONTYPRIDD DISASTER

... TILE PONTYPRIDD DISASTER. an tbe M. et U. Ra.a. mid mowed doomed mess obieb mem eke Meier by wig a the axle booe broken, red a me be Me amid* meld di/amend mime Thom, of Ted Vale. traded, wed the `do r Year. Tb• WIIU. d the mid, mid .i..d did sot ...

COLLIERY DISASTERS IN WALES

... eight darter Gam , red the Naval Colliery, Spa Volley, Swath W. A hauling ram while =lea dn.. the shah milted rooted the amide =pa Bet workings ware awe order tomtit= the rope what two pit =rearm =Wad. that meta/ling the lams Or ma =red the guide roan hot ...

THE THAMES DISASTER

... Eight of the Prineoss Alice ?? were About two points on the port how. I saw the red and mast- headlights. Immediately afterwards the man on the lookout said, Do You see that red light? and I said , Yes. We proceeded slowly down mid- stream, and then, when ...

Published: Saturday 28 September 1878
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3630 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE ABERDEEN DISASTER

... THE ABERDEEN DISASTER. The disaster at the Theatre Varieties was naturally the one topic in Aberdeen yesterday. The search for any other bodies buried in the wreckage was resumed the morning. It proved to be very gruesome work. Attention was first directed ...

Published: Friday 02 October 1896
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1029 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE CASTLEFORD COLLIERY DISASTER

... THE CASTLEFORD COLLIERY DISASTER. A Castleford correspondent telegraphs :—The fire in the underground workings of the Wholdale Colliery is increasing, and is not improbable the pit will have to be flooded. The work of rescuing the five men entombed has ...

Published: Friday 11 December 1891
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 118 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MINE DISASTER,

... word was V' clo ' manager of the f at han J, and he and the C ar «d descend. d , the disaster was one jj, ' « people began rapidly «te Discoveries. tf. nded the Lord Pit in ' time able . but they could ! -p act't} ach Low Main seam «V Vfe th«r the ehaft ...

Published: Tuesday 16 October 1906
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 816 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE DISASTER AT BRADFORD

... lining was entirely independent of the red brick, there being no tios between them. Every fourth course in the fire brick was a heading course, and regarded strength he preferred that to heading courses throughout. The red bricks wore laid with heading courses ...

Published: Monday 15 January 1883
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1032 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE WELSH COLLIERY DISASTER

... THE WELSH COLLIERY DISASTER. Telegraphing shortly before midmght a Pontypridd correspondent says that abont eleven o'clock the pit was declared cool enough to be explored the workings, and large army repairers descended to clear the way to tne stalls ...

Published: Thursday 13 April 1893
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 315 | Page: 7 | Tags: none