BRAVE WOMAN DOCTOR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 290, 6 December 1929, Page 10

BRAVE WOMAN DOCTOR

IN A GAS-FILLED MINE. A pretty young woman doctor walked half a mile in a gas-filled mine in Lanarkshire, Scotland, without any protection recently to attend to men who were overcome by gas at the Cadzow Colliery. Three men were killed by the gas, which had been released by a shot. Workmen wearing gas helmets found their bodies after another man had collapsed in a rescue attempt. Dr Norah MacKenzie Steele, of Ardmuir, Hamilton, had rushed to tho scene when she heard of the accidentShe went down the pit to attend to tho men wearing a leather motoring coal and light shoes and stockings. She stayed down the ipine for about two hours. One of the helpers said to me. “It was one of the bravest things I have seen. ’ ’ Dr Steele went on with her ordinary day’s work afterward, doubly heavy at the moment because her partner was on holiday She said:— “Anybody would have done as much for those brave miners. I was not prepared for going down the mine when I left home, but immediately I heard tho injured men were still down there, of course I had to go. I was down about two hours altogether and I had to walk a long way from the bottom of the shaft. I do not think it was particularly brave. ’ ’