An explosion occurred on Thursday, in the Murton New Waining
Colliery, near Seafiam Harbour, in the county of Durham, by which fourteen lives were lost. It was caused by a sudden jet of gas from a fissure opened in a part of the mine where the Davy lamp was not used—so safe was it deemed.
Another accident on the North-western Railway—early yesterday morning Thomas Sands, a new engine-driver lately taken into the employ of the company from Woolwich Dockyard, brought the nine o'clock train from Birmingham safely to Tring. There his engine went wrong: a rush of steam took place; Sands was scalded, and in a fright leaped off the engine. The train was stopped by the guard and stoker, who retained their places. Sands was found on the embank- ment, with his thigh broken; and he is not likely to live. It is said that Sands had suffered the water in the boiler to get too low.
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