Early Morning Disaster in Local Pit.
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Fourteen pit-sinkers lose their lives.
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Three fortunate survivors
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Water prevents recover of bodies of the victims.

The Grim reality of a shocking pit disaster broke over the district on Tuesday morning, calamity at the new sinking of the Bilsthorpe Colliery. It was at first feared that seventeen pit sinkers had lost their lives, but happily this heavy death toll was lessened by the subsequent recovery of three of the men, who, although injured, were still alive.
The men involved were on the night shift, commencing at ten o’clock, and it was about three o’clock on Tuesday morning when the disaster happened. At this time the ‘hoppit’ a form of cage  was descending with eight pit sinkers when, without warning, the large water main crashed down upon the ‘hoppit’ carrying it to the bottom of the shaft, crushing those at work in the sump at the bottom . . .

Two Survivors