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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 6 6 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: may 5, 1862., [Electronic resource] 4 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 2 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 3, 1861., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune 3 1 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 3 1 Browse Search
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 3 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: July 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Twenty-three lives lost in a colliery. (search)
at Clay Cross, near Chesterfield, England. The pit is about one hundred and sixty yards deep and adjoins an old shaft which has not been worked for some years. Some of the stalls have been extended near the old water pit, and on the 11th Natty Dawes, a collier, with a view to ascertain how near he was to the old water pit, picked at the side of his stall. In a few moments a hole was made the size of his pick handle and the water commenced to rush in. There were about three hundred workmen in the colliery at the time, and Dawes gave the alarm for them to escape, the water rushing in with increased rapidity. The men knew that there was no hope of escape from the pursuing and rapidly rising water, except through the pit shaft, and as this is the lowest part of the working, their fears were doubled by the knowledge of the fact that the water rising would soon block up the exit and leave them in the high workings, if not to be slowly drowned, at least with the alternative, quite