FALL OF CLAY.
TWO MEN ENTOMBED. EESCUE WORITuNDER DIFFICULTIES. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received January 25, 8.10 a.m.) PARIS, 24th January. The collapse of a clay pit at Vinesville, in Normandy, entombed two men. Rescuers lowered sixteen loaves, some ¦ soup, fifty quarts of cider, and tobacco, xnen a. second colla-pse occurred, cutting ¦ oft" communication. > The rescuers worked day and night ¦ for eleven and a half days. The shaft . collapsed four times. Eventually the men were rescued.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 20, 25 January 1911, Page 7
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