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Fleuss Noxious Gas Apparatus tested in Maudlin seam Seaham Colliery (June 1881)

Fleuss Patent Noxious Gas Apparatus tested in the Maudlin seam at Seaham Colliery in attempt to exhume the bodies of miners still entombed after the explosion and fire in 1880.

 

Northern Echo 25th June 1881