WOMAN DOCTOR
HEROISM AT HAYDOCK
DESCENT INTO COAL MINE
HORKOE OF EXPLOSION
United Pres3 Association—By Electric Tele--1 .' graph—Copyright. '.. (Received Ist March, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 28th February. ~... The young woman doctor, Dr. Winifred Bridge, is praised for heroism displayed in the Haydock coal mine explosion. She assisted Dr. Dowling, whom she accompanied below,1 facing risks and horrors composedly. It was bad travelling through the workings for a woman, but Dr. Winifred crouched down and was led along. She fixed up a surgery a hundred yards from the scene *£ the explosion, and began minis* fßring to the injured miners as they struggled to her. "She was splendid," said DV. Dowling, "a fine, athletic girl. She kept her head. The fumes were terrible, and the men suffered from gas. Others were frightfully, burned. Dr. Bridge worked hard. I think she is the first woman to act under these circumstances."
Five men were killed and twenty-five badly injured with burns and gas in an explosion in a mine at Haydock, near Wigau, in South Lancashire. The gal-leries-were found filled with fumes.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 51, 1 March 1930, Page 9
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