The Burradon Colliery Explosion

The colliery has now been thoroughly explored, the last bodies found being in the "broken;" the bodies that were missing when the last despatch was sent off from the colliery being, it was suspected, under the extensive falls of coal and stone that occurred in the pit at the time of the explosion. There has been a considerable amount of confusion as to the exact number of victims by the fearful catastrophe. The number, it has been ascertained by careful comparison of lists, is 76. From the fact that many of the lads fled to the shaft before the second and most terrible explosion occurred, and so escaped, the larger proportion of those killed are men ; and the greater number of them have left widows and children, or aged mothers and sisters, who were depending on their labour. The subscription on behalf of the bereaved promises to be most munificent. The coal trade has subscribed £1,000, and money is flowing in from all parts of Northumberland and Durham.