Shannon News TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1922.

Shannon News, 4 July 1922, Page 2

Shannon News TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1922.

WHILE the feelings of the community are so poignantly moved as they are at present, it is difficult, in the face of such a disaster as that of Sunday night to say much that will be helpful. The colony of workers affected were bound by close ties of relationship, of friendship and-of association with many of our residents, and to then the shock came with more intensity and was more paralysing in its effects than to the rest of the Dominion, much as the tragic occurrence has impressed itself on the imagination of the public at large. Writing under the shadow of deep feelings of personal and public loss', we can do no more than express the heartfelt sympathy of the community with the heartbroken wives, fatherless children and bereaved families who mourn the fate of their loved ones. The tragic story we tell to-day is redeemed and illumined by one thing: the courage and steadfastness of the men who fought the terrors of unseen peril for the lives of their mates. The fate of the first rescue party adds one more noble epic to the long history of human heroism in the industrial field, and it must be the source of whatever consolation is possible to those who mourn to-day. No less heroic were the endeavours of those who eventually recovered their mates from the tunnel of death, exhibiting the highest qualities and attributes of our race and demonstrating once again that when the call comes and the hazard is greatest, brave men do not count their lives as of moment nor weigh them in the balance with death. The community is tom to-day between its great grief and its marvelling admiration—and there for the present this sad tragedy of industry must remain.