Eston (Ironstone)

Miscellaneous Notes and Incidents

Three deputies had gone into a place which had been stopped at a hitch for about three months, and when about twenty yards from the face a quantity of gas ignited at their candles and burnt them about their heads, faces and arms.

Source: 1902 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1590), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.