"BRAVEST IN WORLD"
TRIBUTE TO MINER
"The man who works in a coal mine to-day is the bravest man in the world. He docs the most outrageous things, knowing full well that if' they do not come off aa he intends them to do it means death." This tribute to miners was. made by Colonel Connell, the Deputy-Coroner, at the inquest at Sheffield on Joseph Edward Smith, who received fatal injuries as a result of an explosion in Nunnery Colliery, says the "Manchester Guardian." Smith and a deputy were blasting down a roof in the colliery. The deputy said that as. soon as he turned a key in the battery ho held there was an immediate explosion from the shot hole. He thought Smith might; have touched with Ids body the wires hanging from the shot holes, thus forming a contact, or that, he might have touched the wires with a wire he was holding. Mr. A. Smith, representing the Yorkshire Miners' Association, suggested that there had been a breach of the Coal Mines Act, but the deputy denied this. The Deputy-Coroner said he thought the explosion was an accident, although he thought it a bad practice to test wires in the conditions which prevailed. Brave as the men were, he ...added, they sometimes forgot that certain physical laws could not bo ignored. A verdict of accidental death was returned.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 139, 16 June 1930, Page 11
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230"BRAVEST IN WORLD" Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 139, 16 June 1930, Page 11
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