Save Him First.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 156, 12 June 1886, Page 1

Save Him First.

Some years ago there was an accident, in a coal mine, near Bitton, in Gloucestershire. Six men were' going "down into the mine, when the handle of the cart in which the; were sitting broke, and they were all killed. A man and a boy had been clinging' to th« rope which held the cart, and as the accident happened, they each made a spring, and managed to catch hold of a long iron chain which is always hung downthe side of a coal-pit as a guide. When the people at the top heard of the'accident, and found that someone was clinging to the chain, they sent down a man to ', rescue ■ him. The man himself vras securely fastened to the r end 6f a rope, and had another noose or loop of rope which he could tie round the body ol the man to be rescued, and then they could both be drawn up together. He came firsi to the boy Daniel Bai-ding, and Was -just going to seize him, when the boy cried, ** Don't mind me ; I can still hold on a Uttle j but Joseph Brown, » who is a little lower down, is nearly exhausted ; save him first." So the brave lad hung on patientjy for another quarter of an hour and saved his friend's life at the risk of his own.