FALL OF 180FT.

Bruce Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 42, 31 May 1917, Page 1

FALL OF 180 FT.

MINEIVB WONDERFUL ESCAPE, Although he fell 180 ft -down the shaft of a copper mine at Cobar UV&-W.), and received about a dozen i aetures, James bond, aged 31, a miner, who lives at the Great Kailway tiotel, Cobar, is still alive, and when he was admitted to Sydney Hospital the other morning he was conscious. .Bond's injuries were fractures of the right thigh,, right kneecap, right ankle, left thigh; left leg, both arms in several places, and both eollurboneß, and a large incised wound on the left legK The remarkable feature of Bond's extraordinary escape from being smashed to pieces .was that he did not receive either head or-internal injuries, an. when hie mates reached him he was t-ontJious and able to tell them what had aappened. He was working in the mine rsiose to the shaft, and while wj|£ inc ,4B face with a cloth moved baeffi n few feet. He stepped W larV find hping unable to recover his balane* he fell ddwfi tlie shafi