SIX DAYS ENTOMBED
SEVEN MINERS SURVIVE
VETERAN'S FORTITUDE
1 (Times .Cable.) \ ! : '■■ ; BERLIN, 11th January; '''■■ The hero of the, Karstem mine accident, in which 15 miners were entombed and seven, rescued after six days, is an old pipe-layer named Slama, whose fortitude enabled the survival of the party. He rationed the scanty: supplies of; food and coffee, and pierced a ventilation pipe, giving each man a hole.. ' ■He fought his comrades' tendency to madness due to; thirst (one man threatened suicide) by - telling them that they had drunk water during sleep but had forgotten about'it. Slama was able to distinguish day from night by the temperature of the air from the pipe, and persuaded them' that they had been entombed only two days when five had passed. Thus ho employed numorous <W vices, although he admits' that lie him-'----self had completely^ abandoned Tißpc. _
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 10, 13 January 1932, Page 9
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142SIX DAYS ENTOMBED Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 10, 13 January 1932, Page 9
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