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Scanned directly from The Illustrated London News, Saturday October 20, 1877. The colliery disaster at Wigan, England. "On Thursday week, at the Pemberton Collieries, near Wigan, there was a terrible explosion of 'firedamp' gas, by which thirty or forty men were killed". View more vintage engraved illustrations: Alice in Wonderland, William Shakespeare, Illustrated London News, Victorian engravings.