SAVED BY A DOG

Evening Star, Issue 20943, 6 November 1931, Page 9

SAVED BY A DOG

HUGE SLIDE OF DEBRIS COLLIERY WORKS DAMAGED Press Association —By Telegraph Copyright. LONDON, November 5. The harking of a dog which was eventually killed by debris saved a family, and possibly 700 miners, from death in Rhondda Valley. A huge tip of thousands of tons of debris at Abergorchy Colliery, after twenty hours of gale and rain, began slipping from its foundations at- midnight. The dog alarmed the occupants of the Colliery clerk’s house, which was directly in the path of the avalanche, and they had just time to get mit in their night clothes through the back door before the house was engulfed. An enormous mass of rubble and stones, Colossuslike, swept down upon the colliery works, swamping the feeder which supplied water to the colliery engines and crushing the engine house. The colliery clerk hurriedly ' summoned officials and workers, who hastily hauled 100 empty tramcars, which, however, were speedily overwhelmed by the avalanche. The latter slid further than a quarter of a mile and threatened the mine shaft, endangering 700 men below and affecting the mine ventilation. The machinery was so badly damaged that only one boiler was working, and it raised just sufficient steam to° work the lifts and bring the. men and some of the horses to the surface before the cessation of ths slide removed! anxiety. The damage amounts to thousands of pounds, and work will be impossible for a fortnight.—London ‘ Times ’ Cable.