RESCUE FROM A MINE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9625, 18 October 1909, Page 5

RESCUE FROM A MINE.

A BRAVE MAN REWARDED

MELBOURNE, October 16

At Bendigo, the Governor (Sir Thomas Carmichael) presented Davies, who heroically rescued! a> ffeMowminer at the Goldhelds (uDnsoludated mine, with an illuminated address, cheque of £l7ol a gold, medal and a certificate fort-bravery..

A sensational accident occurred in the Consolidated mine- afr. Bendigo, on the 16th of last- month. Three miners named! Davies,. Darcy and Allen, were engaged in sinkine a shaft. Two shots were put in, ar d the men ascended to the plat above. As Allen reached the plat he missed his footing,, and fell to the bottom. Instantly Davies rushed down the ladder,, despite the iaet that the charges were due to explode at any moment. He found Allen, and had dragged him about five feet when the first The debris, however, carried iu< an opposite direction.' Davies fhen endeavoured | •to get Alien into safe place before | the second charge exploded, when the explosion took place, When relief was sent down both men were found alive. Allan had a broken leg., but both were unhurt by the blast. Davies has be'jn recommended for the Albert mydnl i.nst ; tuted by the King in October, 190.7, for rewarding tbnse who endanger their own lives in saving* or attempting to save the lives of others from perils in mines ■or quarries within the Britiih dominions,