MINE EXPLOSION
A story ot' great courage shed its light over the sorrowful inquiry about the death of 19 men in a pit explosion the other day in England. Eighteen of the bodies were scorched by the sheet of flame which came upon them suddenly as they joked and whistled at work. The nineteenth man, Thomas Marr Smith, was unscorched. He had gone to help the others, and been overpowered by gas. James Crow, a young miner, was flung on his back by a gust of wind and dust that came with the flash of flame. He did not hurry to safety, but crept down to three men who had been working nearby. After tearing off their burning clothes he pushed two of them in front of him, and dragged along another who clung to his feet as he crawled up the face with them.
No wonder that everyone concerned in the inquiry paid a tribute to his coolness and courage. The representative of, the colliery was right when he said, “Nothing I could say could be too good for what he did.”
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Waipa Post, Volume 52, Issue 3703, 8 January 1936, Page 2
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183MINE EXPLOSION Waipa Post, Volume 52, Issue 3703, 8 January 1936, Page 2
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