MINER'S GREAT STRENGTH
LIVES OF COMRADES SAVED Thomas Marshall, miner, of Mexoborough, Yorkshire, takes a pn*e being fit. And his fitness saved two in the Barnsboro Main Colliery > which he works. Falls of roof cost fo or five hundred lives a year m Bntam coal mines, and when one the Barnsboro Pit two miner. Pa They y co b u U ldm>t extricate Above them a great mass f eW . trembling and cracking. crush moments it would come d and suffocate them. Tom of his fellow-worker, l.liam Goldthorpe, rushed t° the spo g Marshall saw the roof gradual} S^ rugfc way. Quickly he stoope<d ro ' o f—and his strong back against t tunheld it up. Coulson lze ,\ th b e J e hands, ity and, with hi isoJie d pulled enough debris oir J P men to be able to drag them to » Rescuers and rescued were ■ -fevr jured and had to cease ork - j? Mardays later the nervous figure shall and Coulson stood offices. The directors presented with gold watches. happ 6ll^ Marshall said: It j . right' that we were able to thin wa s thing at the right fme B fortunate for his buried colleag he does his daily aozen.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22118, 25 May 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)
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