The Colliery Explosion In Durham

All the bodies have now been recovered from the Brancepeth Colliery. Several of the victims had survived the shock of the explosion only to die later from the foul air. One of them, named Rawlings, was discovered crouched upon hands and knees between two tubs. Several of the explorers have had narrow escapes from death from afterdamp. — Mr. E. Robbins, manager of the Press Association, writes under date April 18, calling attention to a statement made in The Times of Wednesday last, in the report of this disaster, to the effect that a colliery warning had been issued by the Meteorological Office on April 13, the date of the explosion. He states that this was not correct, the colliery warnings being specially prepared for and issued by the Press Association, not by the Meteorological Office.