The Fire Beneath Newcastle

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I. The fire began on a Wednesday in March, 1884, and it did not behave like any fire Arthur Blackwood had ever seen. It started in the deep seams of the Newcastle coalfield, three hundred feet below the surface, where the air was thick with methane and the walls sweated coal dust. Arthur had ordered the ignition himself—three boreholes drilled into the main seam, filled with magnesium flares,...

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