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Cruelly broken and bruised, Young, Bill Dancing, and Glover late that

night were brought up in rope cradles by the wrecking derrick and taken

into the Brock car, turned by its owner into a hospital An hour after

the fall on the south arête the hill blockade had been broken With

word of the disaster to nerve men already strained to the utmost,

effort became superhuman, the impossible was achieved, and the relief

train run in on the mine track

Morris Blood, unconscious, was lifted froeon's care in ti a tackle for a three-hundred-foot lift was another matter; but even

while the derrick-car stood idle on the spur waiting for the cable

equipeon from the hospital

was lowered with the first of the lineether had fallen, and surgical aid reached theave the orders, Glover, cushioned

and strapped in the tackle, was lifted out of the blackness of the

night into the strea down to the mattresses piled on the track, and, before all

that looked and waited, a woman knelt and kissed his sunken eyes Not

then did the men, dih they knew, to the meanest trackhand, all it meant; not when,