The Workington Colliery Disaster

Yesterday an exploring party of eight men descended into the pit at St. Helen's, Workington, into which an exploring expedition was made last Thursday week. They explored the workings and sent up two dead bodies. One of these was that of William Peel, of Workington, who was not disfigured, the poor fellow having evidently succumbed to the deadly effects of the after-damp, after having escaped the immediate effects of the explosion. The other was the engineman, Henry Nichollson, whose body was found near his engine much disfigured. The remaining bodies are under water and divers will have to go down to get them out. The last sentence in the Lord Mayor's letter to Sir Wilfrid Lawson, M.P., in reference to this accident, printed in The Times of yesterday, should run thus :— "Should this be the case, the recent accident may possibly draw attention to the desirability of imitating (not "initiating") the Lancashire and Welsh miners in the steps they take by means of their unions and provident funds to mitigate the distress when such calamities arise."