ENTOMBED MINERS
pathetic scenes. BERLIN, Sunday. Fresh air was constantly pumped into the mine and kept the survivors -arlDr**,but they were without food or water for six days, two thousand feet undeground. When extricated, they were speechless and exhausted and had to he taken to hospital. Two had broken legs. There were pathetic scenes at the pithead, where tho families of the men were gathered, some overjoyed at their relatives’ return from the grave. (A message yesterday stated, working against hope, rescuers in the Karsten Colliery were astounded to-night to hear faint answering tappings, then a voice answering that seven entombed men were alive. These were extricated after feverish tunnelling. The rescuers are endeavouring to penetrate a second wall of fallen rock, behind which the remaining seven are imprisoned, but it is not expected that they are alive.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 12 January 1932, Page 5
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138ENTOMBED MINERS Wairarapa Daily Times, 12 January 1932, Page 5
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