Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-08-09
!. A HERO IN LoWLY LIFE.

About forty and boys lately placed in imminent
peril By accident In coapt at Bedminsts Bristol
England belonging TO Mess Goulston & Co. The pit
free from and chokedamp The main shaft extends slO
feet down but s yards along the workings Of the top.
second additional shaft called psha is sunk from
the upper into the lower workings being opened
into still deeper AT eleven o'clock last Friday morn
ing ascending eoauck knocked away the timber framing,
and caused the sides Of the shaft fall in and completely
choke the bottom OF the main shaft up above the horizontal
working in the upper The spread and the
pmouh crowded with the relatives of the poor miners
who had been enguphed One woman sat on the ground
anticay crying that her father husband and son were all
buried alive The attempt rescue the miners instantly
commenced, but i was perlous and slow Only three
could work at once and they in constant danger from
the ooseness Of the shaides whence Of soil con-
tinued falling f
Mr. Knight proprietor Of an adjacent pit went down rst
and then were set TO work but every body feared that
the task hopeless for the ventilation Of the mine would
Be stopped or checked as to destroy all life in few hours
wss evening Of that day before they could communicate
with two men in the upper and when food had been
sent down to them It still seemed impossible get them out
for they too weak to cling to ropes and nobody would
volunteer to go down and assist them. Mr.. Gousone looked
round the crowd and said Will no one try to save them -
when modestloskinG, indeed rather esmnate looking
youth, named Jass NORTH said ~ will !" and soon after
be did enter the bucket which powerful shields had been
6xed and descended to the Silence strictly enjoin-
ed and attention stretched for the signal to haul up At
length the signal received and in few minutes the
appeared weak and exhausted They stated that the air
bad that candle could be got the "p shaft"
leading the lower seam One Of them fsI. sure that all
below must be dead; the other still hoped and thought
ertons should be made James North again volunteered;
and encouraged BY his example, Eve other offered
10 60 down. They abored to restore the ventatng apps-
raus, but were driven up agan without any success North
had crept to the edge Of the ha, and shouted and ham
mered for several minutes but got Norhs idea
Of hammeng admirable the buried miners might have
heard the stroke. and thought the sound Of helping
rades with fescung TOOLS when the human voice would be
unheard the subeanean depths But North got signal
Of life in return The labor continued and at last the
ventilation enough restored to allow the to
windlas and lower North down the sdpshaf" He found
the miners alive, hudded together the bockedup main
shaft engaged in prayer They had worked for hours
deavoring to clear the main shahad carried tons of the
debris into the workings but their lights went out and they
gave themselves up for lost Crowdng the fresh earth in
the main shaft. which gave out esher air for breathing they
prayed to God. The the plymouth, they appear
ed among their relatives by one, nearly ees with
hauston was affecting. None dangerously ILL and all
would soon recover.