Word: blackdamp
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...half-mile tunnel, for no sound had been heard outside. There was fire in the coal only 500 feet in, and more fires beyond. There were innumerable slate falls and blockades of rubble. Timbering was shattered, the ventilating system dam aged, and there was blackdamp as well as thick, choking coal smoke inside...
...coal-diggers' tragedies, one laid in England and one in Illinois, gave strong evidence of the fascination that the subterranean life exerts on the imaginations of men who spend their days above ground. Both books are packed with information on the technical details of coal mining, discussions of blackdamp, underground floods, explosions, entombments, but the picture that results is scarcely calculated to fill the patriots of either country with pride. The bitterness of Tom Tippett's account of Illinois disasters, in Horse Shoe Bottoms, is matched by the bitterness of Dr. Archibald Joseph Cronin's account of similar disasters beneath...
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