 | Thomas Thomson - Agriculture - 1813 - 514 pages
...continued shower from the -:/•• pit to the distance of a mile and a half. In fithe village of Heworth, it caused a darkness like that of early twilight,...were strongly imprinted in it. The heads of both the shaftframes were blown off, their sides set on fire, and their pullies shattered in pieces ; but the... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - Agriculture - 1813 - 530 pages
...Accident at Felling Colliery. 361 pit to the distance of a mile and a half. In the village of Heworth, it caused a darkness like that of early twilight,...covered the roads so thickly, that the footsteps of passenger* were strongly imprinted in it. The heads of both the shaftframes were blown off, their sides... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1814 - 830 pages
...in a continued shower from the pit to the distance of a mile and a half. In the village of Heworth, it caused a darkness like that of early twilight,...of passengers w'ere strongly imprinted in it. The beads of both the shaft frames were blown off, their sides set on fire, and their pullies shattered... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 540 pages
...in a continued shower from the pit to the distance of a mile and a half. In the village of Heworth, it caused a darkness like that of early twilight,...were strongly imprinted in it. The heads of both the shaft-frames were blown off, their sides set on fire, and their pullies shattered in pieces; but the... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 546 pages
...in a continued shower from the pit to the distance of ;i mile and a half. In the village of Heworth, it caused a darkness like that of early twilight,...the footsteps of passengers were strongly imprinted ia it. The heads of both the shaft-frames were blown off, their sides set on fire, and their pullies... | |
 | Rev. Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - Natural history - 1818 - 566 pages
...in a continued shower from the pit to the distance of a mile and a half. In the village of Heworth, it caused a darkness like that of early twilight,...footsteps of passengers were strongly imprinted in it. Tin- heads of both the shaft-frames were blown off, their sides set on fire, and thfir pullies shattered... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1823 - 854 pages
...in a continued shower from the pit to the distance of a mile and a half. la the village of Heworth, it caused a darkness like that of early twilight,...their sides set on fire, and their pullies shattered in pieces ; but the pullies of the John Pit gin, being on a crane not within the influence of the blast,... | |
 | John Sykes - Durham (England : County) - 1824 - 400 pages
...in a continued shower from the pit to the distance of a mile and a half. In the village of Hewonh, it caused a darkness like that of early twilight,...were strongly imprinted in it. The heads of both the shaft-frames were blown off, their sides set on fire, and their pullies shattered to pieces. Pieces... | |
 | 1832 - 602 pages
...in a continued shower from the pit to the distance of a mile and a half. In the village of Heworth it caused a darkness like that of early twilight,...footsteps of passengers were strongly imprinted in it. As soon as the explosion was heard the wives and children of the workmen ran to the working-pit. Wildness... | |
 | John Holland - Coal - 1835 - 516 pages
...in a continued shower from the pit to the distance of a mile and a half. In the village of Heworth, it caused a darkness like that of early twilight,...were strongly imprinted in it. The heads of both the shaft-frames were blown off, their sides set on fire, and their pullies shattered in pieces — those... | |
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... air, in the form of an inverted cone. The heaviest part of the ejected matter, such as corves, pieces of wood and small coal, fell near the pits ; but the dust, borne away by a strong west wind, fell in a continued shower from the pit to the distance... 
