TRAPPED MINER
AMPUTATES HIS OWN LEFT ARM. INJURED SERIOUSLY BUT LIKELY TO RECOVER. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. After chopping off his left arm with an axe, when trapped by a fall of coal in a South Coast mine, Alfred Burgess, a miner, aged 39, remained conscious and spoke to his rescuers. His spine and left leg were fractured, but he is expected to recover. Burgess amputated his arm a few inches below the elbow by a single cut with an axe which he carried in his belt.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 June 1943, Page 4
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94TRAPPED MINER Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 June 1943, Page 4
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