Disasters
The gas mixture has been responsible for many deaths among underground workers, especially miners. For example, the Hartley Colliery Disaster when the entire population of a colliery in north-east England were trapped when the beam of an engine suddenly broke and fell down the single shaft, blocking it with debris. It entombed 204 men and boys, who could not be rescued, and so suffocated in the blackdamp atmosphere, and died.
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Famous quotes containing the word disasters:
“Those who escape death in great disasters are surely destined for good fortune later.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)
“Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace
The day’s disasters in his morning face.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)