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The Louis Frost Notes 1685 to 1962
EXPLOSIONS AND FIRES
In The
PICTOU COAL FIELD
Store Pit
1834 Explosion in No. 3 Store Pit
1836 Explosion in No. 3 Store Pit
1838 Explosion in No. 2 Store Pit
1839 Lost by fire
Cage Pit
1858 Explosion
Cage and Bye Pits
1861 Explosion
Bye Pit
1863 Fire
Cage Pit
1864 Explosion
Bye Pit
1866 Explosion
1867 Fire
1867 Fire
Foord Pit
1869 Explosion and Fire
Forster Pit
1869 Pit on fire -- abandoned in 1870
Dalhousie Pit
1870 Pit lost by fire
Cage Pit
1870 Part of Cage Pit lost by fire
1872 Fire in pit
Foord Pit
1880 Explosion -- Foord Pit and Cage Pit lost
McBean Mine
1885 Explosion in Mine (Vale Colliery) 13 lives lost
Albion Mine
1888 Explosion in Albion Mine
MacBean Mine
1889 Lost by fire
Marsh Colliery
1892 Dynanite explosion -- 3 lives lost
Foord Pit
1892 Pit closed due to fire
English Slope
1896 Explosion - 2 boys killed, two injured
Albion Mine
1909 Fire in Albion Mine -- no lives lost.
1910 Fire in Albion Mine -- no lives lost.
1913 Fire in Albion Mine -- no lives lost.
Allan Mine
1914 Explosion in Mine. Two lives lost
Drummond Mine
1913 Fire in Mine
MacGregor Mine
1914 Fire in Mine; no lives lost
Albion Mine
1917 Fire in Mine; no lives lost
Allan Mine
1918 Explosion in Allan Shaft
1924 Explosion in Allan Shaft)
1924 Fire in Allan Shaft ) 4 lives lost
Albion Mine
1925 Fire in mine; no lives lost
Allan Mine
l929 Feb. 10 Explosion at 9:00 P.M. Mine sealed
Feb. 11 Explosion at 3:00 P.M.
Mar. 27 Mine opened
No loss of life.
Albion Mine
1932 June 29 Fire -- Second top bord on No. 1 Balance
Allan Mine
1932 Sept. 5 Fire and Explosion after mine sealed. No. 1
Balance, 1500 South East level.
No loss of life
Allan Mine
1935 Apr. 16 Explosion -- 1500 South East Main and Counter
Levels -- 7 lives lost.
Albion Mine
1945 July 21 Fire -- Airway between the Northwest Cage level and
the bottom of the 300 foot sinking of the Albion
Mine in the Cage Seam.
Acadia No. 7
1944 --- Outbreak of fire on different parts of No. 3 Counter
Bord -- 51,000 tons coal lost.
May Fire believed to have originated in the Cage Seam above.
July Smoke discovered on the counter level of the No. 7 side
of the fire balance.
Nov. 8 Smoke discovered issuing from a head on the No. 7 side
of the stopping built in May.
Allan Mine
1948 Apr. 28 Fire smell on No. 3½ Balance, No. 1 level, off the
350 Foord Balance. Sealed off.
May 7 Strong fire smell outside these stoppings; moved
1,000 ft. out level and resealed.
Allan Mine
1950 Apr. 28 Explosion at l200 S.E. Section. 7 workmen burned
Dec. 9 No. 6 Balance, the inside workings of the 1500 S.E.
was closed off due to fire smell.
Albion Mine
1950 --- Sealed off the workings below No. 5 in this mine due
to heating on No. 5½ longwall.
Allan Mine
1951 June 18 Fire, 1500 S.E. Section; mine closed December, 1951
Albion Mine
1951 Dec. Section of Cage Seam sealed off because of heating
McGregor Mine
1951 Sept. No. 5 Longwall sealed off due to fire breaking out
on the bottom roadway.
McGregor Mine
1952 Jan. 19 Balance of No. 7 West Section -- 19 lives lost.
Nov. 6 No. 6 West Sinking pillar section closed off due to
fire smell.
McGregor Mine
1955 Jan. 21 No. 7 E. Sinking section closed off due to fire smell.
McGregor Mine
1957 Jan. 22 Fire on No. 6 West Level. Mine abandoned and sealed
off Feb. 5
Albion Mine
1955 Fire occurred in third seam during recovery of slope
pillars, necessitating closing the colliery. All
coal worked out.
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