COURRIERES DISASTER.
STORY OF A SURVIVOR. "WOMEN THREATENING THE ENGINEERS. PARTS, April 5. Berton, the last of the miners rescued in the Courrieres colliery, was taken from the 331 metre level. He was in fair health and able to walk. He suffered less than the other thirteen survivors, and joked while being brought to the surface. He thought he had been entombed for only about a week. He had lived on coffee, brandy, and a little water, also some bread which he found on the bodies of the dead. He suffered terribly from cold, though he wrapped himself in clothes removed from the dead. He vainly tried to find an axe with which to commit suicide after he had abandoned hope oi being rescued. He wandered extensively about the mine, but discovered no one alive. Crowds of women at the pit's mouth are menacing the engineers, whom they accuse of cowardice (Received 8.27 a__i_) PARIS, April 5. A Judicial inquiry has been instituted into the proceedings oi -the engineers conducing the salvage work at Courrieres.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 83, 6 April 1906, Page 5
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