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Mning accidents are, „„] ia ,. scarcely few and far between (says , English paper), but we may be thankful tat ra many eases marvellous rescues 'mvc-been effected. Fresh in the minds >[ all stands out the great Courrieros -master, when thirteen miners were 'ayed from the jaws of death after hoin» entombed for 710 less than three whole weeks. Another instance of long entombment occurred in a colliery in the Department of n„rd. (iwmg to the tilling up of the one shaft, eleven miners wore imprisoned in the worktop, nnd a special shaft was 'Unit m order (0 bring np. as was sun■>o«ed, the bodies. Tl.i« was completed after fir teen days of strenuous toil when, to the astonishment of every one j»l the men were found to be alive Iriv•m? subsisted during the whole of that Pfvioj on water thickened with n few bandfuls of oatmeal. I" April, 1877, again, several llvin-. men ivere rescued from the flooded Tvne" wpdil Mine, near Pontypridd, after 'top days' entombment.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 173, 14 August 1909, Page 4
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