A BRAVE OSTLER
SAVES HORSES IN PIT FIRE
• Bight colliery liai'ses..'.wotild;.-have per-;; ishod by fire' in-their stalls ;but.for;'the; heroism of their-ostler, John Lloyd,'i'ylorstown, Glamorgan, who,' noticed smoke coming' front the first' and- second^ story of the stable,' I'and- on~- r rushing; down, found'-100:-tbns of 'Mky and large; quantities of eorn'^stored ' the; Stable-to be on fflrd. v- ;Lighted; straw; fell into the' stable,- '■ causing the -f right-, ened horses to v ,rearr in their '.stalls; Though the i'opf':'thre;'atoTied-to give; 'way .any monient.aivd.sb'^rccipitatethV ■Uurriing material, i'rit'sr'the Stable, El6yd rushed in and 'reiejOse'd-.'severi Of. , animals.,''-Tlio eiglitjif. 5 ■ however,, 'resisted Lloy'd'sr-'dfibrta- "luiifl/ bearing ■suddenly sent iiihi' headlong to the' ground,.brusing his side severely. While down, -Eloyd, saw'a;blazing rafter .fall acrpss' 1 the doorway.'/Howevei',' he' refused, t'o'-"iorsaker. tho/rorna,inihg horsey and," .throwing, his a fins'around, its iie'c'k,; at last succep.dp.cl;in 'pulling it- rquiia. The animal .tho'ii;, plunged' through'-t-Iio? lire to safetv^.n'itlflLlpycT;. closed on'• it^ heels. Both "lrorse'' and "ostior xyefoslightly burnt. The stable and stores' were gutted. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 18
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161A BRAVE OSTLER Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 18
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