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Immediately on being made acquainted withthis accident, Mr. Buddie the viewer, who Iunderstand is one of the proprietors, hastenedto the spot, and too much cannot be said ofhis humane courage in being lowered downthe shaft, although the brattices were on fire,in order to render every assistance in hispower.

Newbottle.

On Monday the 31st of July, another spe-cies of accident, of a very serious nature, occur-red at the Newbottle colliery, situate aboutsix miles from Sunderland ; and although itmay be reckoned amongst those casualtiesagainst which there is no guarding, still itshows the extreme necessity of protecting aclass of people who are exposed to such mani-fold dangers.

A new steam engine had been erected at theshaft of this mine, which had just commencedwinning, and forms an apex with the Successand Harrington Pits. A great number of per-sons, principally workmen in the mine, as-sembled to witness its first operation, when theboiler being overheated, fifty-seven persons wereinstantly destroyed by its explosion.