WOMAN DOCTOR

Evening Star, Issue 20422, 1 March 1930, Page 14

WOMAN DOCTOR

BRAVERY IN PIT EXPLOSION FACES RISKS AND HORRORS P rtu Atsocistiea —By Telegraph—Copyrifbl* LONDON, February 28. (Received March 1, at 9.10 a.m.) A woman doctor, Winifred Bridge, is praised for -her heroism in the Haydock explosion. She assisted Dr Dowling, whom she accompanied below, facing risks and horrors composedly. It was bad travelling through the workings for a woman, but Dr Bridge crouched down, and was led along and fixed, up a surgery .TDOyds from the scene of the explosion and began ministering to th« injured as they struggled to her. ‘‘She was splendid,” said Dr Dowling, ‘‘She is a fine, athletic girl, and kept her head. The fumes were terrible, arid the men suffered from gas, and others were frightfully burned. Dr Bridge worked hard. I think she is the first woman to have been in these circumstances.” [A cable received on Friday stated i The roar of an explosion, which wa* heard afar, sent hundreds of women folk hurrying to the pit head at Haydock, Lancashire. Rescuers found flames shooting along the galleries, which werA filled with fumes, causing the men to collapse. Five were killed and twentyfive badly burned. A woman doctor accompanied the rescuers into the blaa* ing pit.]