COURRIERES DISASTER
BERTON’S SENSATIONAL
EXPERIENCE.
ALONE AMONG THE DEAD
JOKES WHEN BROUGHT TO
SURFACE
WOMEN MENACE ENGINEERS.
By, telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright
Received 9.40 p.m.. April 5. Paris, April 5,
BortoD, tbo last rescued, was taken from tho 391 metre level. Hois in fair health and ablo to walk, Ho suffered less than the other thirteen survivors. Ho joked when brought to the surftce. Ho thought ho had been entombed a week. Ho lived on coffee and brandy and water, aoda little broad found on tho bodies of tho dead. He suffered terribly from cold, though ho wrapped himself in clothes removed from the dead.
He vainly tried to find an axe to commit suicide when hope was abandoned. Ho wandered extensively about the mine, but discovered dodo alive. Crowds of women at the pit’s mouth menaced the engin'ors, accusing them of cowardice.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1717, 6 April 1906, Page 2
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