ENTOMBED MINERS
SAVED FROM DISPAIR. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) BERLIN, January 11. The hero of the Ruhr entombed miners at Ivarslen Colliery is an old pipe-layer named Slama, whose fortitude enabled the survival of the rescued party. He rationed their scanty supplies of food and coifee, and also pierced a ventilation pipe, giving each man a hole. He fought his comrades’ tendency to madness, due to thirstone of them threatening suicide—by telling them they drank water during their sleep, but that they had forgotten about it.
Slama was able to distinguish day from night by tlie temperature of the air from the pipe, and he persuaded them that they had been entombed lor only two days when five days had passed. He thus employed numerous devices although h« admits that he himself had completely abandoned hope.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 January 1932, Page 5
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137ENTOMBED MINERS Hokitika Guardian, 13 January 1932, Page 5
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