A fearful explosion of gas took place in Hebburn Colliery, near Newcastle, the property of Messrs. Easton and Co. Two hundred workmen were in the mine when the calamity occurred, but the effects were confined to the Monkton Flat, in which twenty men and two boys were working, all of whom were suffocated. Fourteen of the sufferers left widows and families, and, as a proof of the uncertainty of life amongst miners, one of the women had lost two husbands in the same awful manner.
Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events... by T. Fordyce, 1867
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