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Home and office of 47-year-old Frederick Woodrow a crippled digger from WW1 who lived in a car. He ate, slept and shaved in the car and every night parked outside a guest house where the proprietor brought him meals, (seen in this picture.) Photo by Robert Donaldson 26 August 1941, State Library of New South Wales, ON 388/Box 036/Item 033 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/digital/Kd8qzOkpKazZ6 9583663
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The Postcard
A postcard bearing no publisher's name that was posted in Holloway, London using a ½d. stamp on Wednesday the 4th. December 1907. It was sent to:
Mrs. P. Stanbrook,
42, Montagu Road,
Hendon,
London NW.
The pencilled message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"118, St. George's Ave.,
Tufnell Park,
Dear A,
Will come & have tea
with you tomorrow
about 4.30.
Don't trouble about any
preparing for me - I never
eat cake.
Yours with much love
to all,
M. F. S."
A Mining Accident in Ely, Nevada
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 4th. December 1907, the Giroux Consolidated Company experienced a deadly mining accident at a copper mine in Ely, Nevada.
Two men were killed, and four other men were trapped 1,000 feet down in a mining shaft for 46 days.
The four men became trapped in the Alpha Shaft of the Giroux mine when the earth caved in. They tapped on a pipe in order to let others know that they were buried by the collapse.
Food and water were sent down each day. The food, water and air the trapped men needed all came through a 6-inch pipe.
The mine owners hired diggers to work in four hour shifts. The diggers were paid $5 each and the mine owners said the total cost was $200 per day.
The men were finally rescued on the 20th. January 1908 after 47 days underground.
-- The 1911 Giroux Mine Fire
On the 24th. August 1911, there was another disaster at the Giroux mine, this time a fire in the Alpha 2 shaft.
The miners were 1,400 feet down in the shaft when an exploding barrel of oil caused a fire above the men in the elevator shaft.
The men decided to ride the steel cage elevator through the flames, although they were all burned very badly inside the slow-moving device. Seven men died and three were severely injured.
When the elevator reached the top, men rushed to the cage in order to attend to the wounded. The smoke however prevented the rescue, and so the cage was raised 25 feet above the shaft, enabling several of the miners to be saved.
The mine was repaired by February 1912, and mining activities resumed.
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