Note: This is an encore post from 2007.
Dec. 7, 1906-Dec. 22, 1906,
Bakersfield
January 1, 1907
Los Angeles
For 15 days, miner Lindsay P. Hicks lay trapped by a cave-in that killed his five companions tunneling in a mountain above the Kern River for an Edison hydroelectric project. On the 16th day, crews finally cut through the last of the steel and scraped away rocks and debris to free the man who had been kept alive with gallons of milk poured down a 60-foot iron pipe.
At first, Edison officials assumed that no one survived the collapse of the tunnel. Then someone heard the faint signal tapped on one of the steel rails for the mining cars: the code for “trapped miner.” The iron pipe was driven through the side of the mountain to provide air and food as Hicks lay either under a rail car or next to it, sheltered by a pile of collapsed timbers that prevented him from being crushed. Continue reading
Confidential magazine may have purged itself of obscenity but the expose complex it created is not so easily dispelled.
There’s an old saying that I frequently call upon which goes:
Note: This is an encore post from 2007.
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