Arizona silver belt., 1902-03-27
EXAMPLES OF HeR0ISM.
Noble Manner h Which Miners Will Risk
 Their lives to Save Friends.

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 Among all the interminable tales of the pioneers of what happened in Col prado years before the state was born | there is nothing more pathetic, no chapter more replete with heroism, no event in which so many lives have been sacrificed or braver action taken by the survivors to rescue the wound ed and to recover the bodies of the dead than has just been witnessed at Telluride. Said the manager Of the Denver Post to me, after reading the account of the first days disasters and the rush of physicians, business men all clssseS-including women and children, out of the town up the rugged trails leading to the scene of che awful disaster at tie Liberty Bell to do what they might towards mend-
 ng the broken aud digging for the utterly lost, "surely thUse are the Dravest people in the world. See what they are doing, right in the face of al- most certain death to themselver. See the number of rescuers that have been overcome and hurled into eternity by sudden rope titionS of avalanches which killed and mangled and burit beyond recovery until the summer sun shall melt the enormous masses of snow above and below the men they are seeking, and yet force armed with WInchesters is necessary to pre- vent others from taking the same risks ; imperative orders from mine managers to permit no person to en- ter the scene of devastation and death My God What people ! <"
 The hardiest, most courageous and daring of the human race are those who inhabit mountainous regions.
 We may have more tales of thrilling interest from those sections before the customary March tempests are ended. While all of us hope that no more destructive slides will occur it must be remembered that up among the noun tain slopes, F, 600 to II, 900 feet above tide.water, there are still hundreds of miners and mill men, scores of cabins and bunk houses that may yet be overwhelmed and crushed into shape less ruin. And the reader may rest assured, notwithstanding the horrors that have stricken their comrades across the range, not one of the men whose duty to himself and family has placed him in the perilous position he occupies, will flee in alarm from threatened danger. He will invari- ably take the chance of it's not coming
 have seen men killed and mangled in the depths of mines by careless handling of powder or the picking out of missed shots, and have seen the men who carried the bodies to the hoisting bucket or cage go back and do the same thing which had caused the death of their comrades-not the same day, perhaps, but within a short time. The life of the miner is filled with risk taking If he fails, he dies, or is broken for the rest of his days but, depend upon it, he will take the risk when the shift boss isn't present to stop him.
 Truly and without qualification or limit the people who i've in the min ing regions are a remarkable people, not SD much in what they are Tn their daily lives and the routine&of their labor as in what they are capable of when crisis comes that brings out the best that is in them. We have seen the worst, and, happily, the best, of San MiguePs populace in the awful trials of the past few months. In the record that will stand as history the worst will be forgotten while the nob- lest and best will stand forever In yestOr.