DURHAM AND NORTHUMBERLAND. Qf

Unfortunately, however, a second explosionoccurred in this mine on the ninth, by whichfour persons were killed, one of them leavinga wife and seven children, and another a wifeand five children, to bewail their untimely end.

Heaton Inundation.

I have before remarked on the great evilwhich exists in this district from the extentand situation of the old wastes, which accord-ing to the present system of management arein every way dangerous; for they either be-come the receptacles of water, or otherwise fillwith inflammable air, and which on beingbroken into from any other mine invariablyprove destructive. It is this circumstancewhich daily increases the necessity of securing,not only to ourselves but to future ages, correctrecords of their situation and boundaries, thewant of which, and the consequences resultingfrom the ignorance of them, are strikingly il-lustrated by the melancholy catastrophe whichhappened in this pit.

Heaton colliery is situate about three milesfrom Newcastle on the road leading to Shields,and cannot escape the notice of a person tra-velling that way, and is one. of those worked

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