ENTOMBED EIGHT DAYS
RESCUT OF COLOGNE MINER, NEW SHAFT UNDER FALLEN WALL CHEERFULNESS OF THE PRISONER. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 5.5 p.m. Cologne, Dec. 6. The entombed; miner Fritz Wienthal has been rescued perfectly well after 183 hours entombment following a fall of coal in the Castrophau Zel mine, Cologne, last Friday. Rescuers worked day and night driving a gallery seven /eet beneath the blocked gallery an<| then upwards, thus obviating the danger of a fresh fall that would crush Wienthal. /' Miners heard Wienthal tapping when they were clearing the deep galleries of the colliery on Monday after a fall of coal on the Friday. A tube was forced through the coal rind Wienthal, imprisoned in a small hollow, was supplied through it with fresh air and liquid food. Later in the week |a doctor prescribed liquid diet, which was given through the tube. Wienthal kept asking jestingly for the menu. He told the rescuers he was catching the liquids in a boot. Although Wienthal was in danger of being buried beneath a fresh fall of coal at any moment he was cheerful, and cracked jokes with his comrades.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 December 1930, Page 9
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189ENTOMBED EIGHT DAYS Taranaki Daily News, 8 December 1930, Page 9
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