A MINER'S COOLNESS.
Remarkable presence of mine! wad recently shown by a miner hear Pottsville, Penn. He was employed in a shaft on Sharp Mountain-. He had lighted a fuse and was climbing to the surfade by rtieanS of pegs in the side of the shaft. When within a few feet of the top one of the pegs gave way and the unfortunate man fell to the bottom, thirty feet below. One of his thighs was broken and the splintered bones were pushed through two pails of panNotwithstanding his terrible injuries 1 , he had sufficient presence of mind to crawl to the lighted fuse which burned within a few iiiches of the charge and to smother it. If he had not done this he would have been blown to pieces when the explosion took place. He then crawled back to one of the earth buckets, got itttd it without assistance* and was hoisted to the surface.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1023, 12 January 1880, Page 2
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163A MINER'S COOLNESS. Kumara Times, Issue 1023, 12 January 1880, Page 2
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