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Local Records
1866
October 31. — Early this morning one of the most calamitous colliery explosions which has occurred in this district for many years took place at Old Pelton, in the county of Durham. The melancholy catastrophe occurred about six o'clock, when a great many of the men and boys were at work. The report of the explosion was heard in a radius of upwards of two miles, which awakened, with fearful forebodings, the villagers, who intuitively rushed to the scene. Mr. James Ritson, the deputy viewer, and other endeavoured to descend the shaft, but the foul air for some time precluded their going down. Eventually, however, they succeeded, and found the sad fact that twenty-four had paid the last great debt of nature, and several others were seriously injured. [LRF]
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- LRF — Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events by T. Fordyce, Published in 1867
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