Accidents and Disasters
ON LAND.
Heaton Colliery lies a mile and a-half ea(illegible text) of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and was won abo(illegible text) twenty-five years ago. The workings are carried on in the high main coal, from the di(illegible text) where the engine pits are sunk to the idepth (illegible text) about eighty fathoms, towards the rise, where they may be twenty-five fathoms, covering (illegible text) the seam, but here the present owners have p(illegible text) down no shafts. The inclination of the stra(illegible text) is nearly east and by south.
To the east and north-west of Heaton-hall, a(illegible text) the wastes of ancient collieries, long since abandoned; and the conductors of the mine, well (illegible text)ware of the great body of water they would ha(illegible text) to contend with when they approached the boundaries, had increased the number of the steam-engines to three, (one of which is of t(illegible text) power of one hundred and thirty horse) the whole being capable of drawing 1,200 gallo(illegible text) each minute; and, by this prudent precaution
