 The coal du=t, 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 of burning coal, driven off the solid stratum of the mine, were also blown up this shaft....  The Annals of Philosophy - Strana 361úprava: - 1813Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Thomas Thomson - 1813 - Počet stránok 530
...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...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 - 1814 - Počet stránok 830
...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 or horizontal...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 Polehampton - 1815 - Počet stránok 540
...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... | |
 | John Sykes - 1824 - Počet stránok 400
...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,... | |
 | Eneas Mackenzie, Marvin Ross - 1834 - Počet stránok 668
...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 :... | |
 | John Holland - 1835 - Počet stránok 514
...John Pit gin, being on a crane not within the influence of the blast, were preserved. The coal dust, ejected from the William Pit into the drift or horizontal...explosion was heard, the wives and children of the colliers ran to the working pit. Wildness and terror were pictured in every countenance. The crowd... | |
 | John Holland - 1835 - Počet stránok 516
...John Pit gin, being on a crane not within the influence of the blast, were preserved. The coal dust, ejected from the William Pit into the drift or horizontal...explosion was heard, the wives and children of the colliers ran to the working pit. Wildness and terror were pictured in every countenance. The crowd... | |
 | William Howitt - 1842 - Počet stránok 634
...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. Out of one hundred and twenty-one persons at work in the pit, only twenty-nine were... | |
 | 1842 - Počet stránok 740
...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. Out of one hundred and twenty-one persons at work in the pit, only twenty-nine were... | |
 | Moses Aaron Richardson - 1843 - Počet stránok 444
...crane not within the influence of the blast, were fortunately preserved. The coal dust ejected from tho William Pit into the drift or horizontal parts of...the mine were also blown up this shaft. As soon as tho explosion was heard, the wives and children of the workmen ran to the working pit ; wiklness and... | |
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