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1743

January 28. — About five o�clock in the morning, a dreadful explosion took place at North Biddick colliery, on the river Wear, occasioned by the workmen holeing into a drift which communicated with an old waste, by which accident ten men and five boys lost their lives ; and one or two who had escaped afterwards died from the effects of the blast. It was remarkable that, though the drift and waste were entirely full of water, yet the foul air immediately fired on holeing the drift. [_LRS_]

Sources

• LRS — Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events by John Sykes, Published in 1833 in two volumes