RESCUED MEN.
CERTAIN TO RECOVER. MOOSE RIVER (Nova Seotia), April 22. The two surviving men, Dr E. D. Robertson and Mr Alfred Scadding, who had been entombed since Easter Monday, amid cheers that shook the countryside, were brought tenderly up tho tortuous passage from the shaft; to the mouth of the pit on canvas and rope stretchers. To reach them through a 20-foot fallen timber harrier that dared not be moved ior fear of cave-in at the foot of tho shatt, two rescue miners crawled through a hole 18 inches in circumference, dragging tho men on stretchers like toboggans behind them to the waiting ambulance, which rushed them to hospital. Both were suffering from colds and trench feet, but recovery is assured.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 123, 24 April 1936, Page 9
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122RESCUED MEN. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 123, 24 April 1936, Page 9
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