LONDON — About 2.30 yesterday afternoon, a terrific explosion occurred in the Abercanaid pit, belonging to Hill’s Plymouth Company, near Merfhyr. The detonation was so great as to alarm the whole neighborhood, and people rushed to the pit’s mouth. There were between fifty and sixty men in the pit at the time, and fears were entertained lest the whole had perished. Events, however, proved that excepting two men all were safe. — The New York Herald, European Edition, August 25, 1891
