TRAPPED IN A FREEZING OHAMBER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 33, 7 February 1903, Page 4

TRAPPED IN A FREEZING OHAMBER.

The EgmoiU Post relates that on S»! urJay last while Mr J. Butcher, c f the Stratford BaGsn Curing G'oap:ny, tvas plicing some iish in the raving room at the faciory, the dcor of the freezing room became clo-itd. Mr Butcher had a very small piecj of candle with him, hed r his weir *■' just after«ards, leaving him in abd akness. He manage 11> find ->wbar, which he used foi i sanlt Mocks of ice, and with sepira'kig tfe» tho door for two trat hi wotlieif at clamps at hjur-. Thinking S¥wtfc § tile

tha top of tha door weFfr hv. ',USdoer ci S:<3, ho first wotfeocf thi~ tbe upper p;rt of the dcor,•which fc. 12ii'. • hick and composed of four tihickrx sses t'f wood, wi h woolltn padding. When be managed to ges through at ttii-i point he found that a like process was necessary at tbe bottom of the door, but lie plucfeily stuck at bis task and eventually liberated himself. After, performing some duties in and abom the factor, y, Mr Butclu-t's overstrung nerves uo'iapsel for a tim*, but no ill effects will follow the incarceration. He had a nartow escape ftom ceith by freezicg.