Nottingham Evening Post 20 January 1922
Miners Heroism
Rescuer Overcome by Fumes in Welsh Pit
The story of heroism in a Welsh mine, involving the death of one of the rescue party, was related at an inquest yesterday at Pontypool on two men employed in the Pentwyn colliery, Abersychan. The men were Jonah West, 38, and Samuel Joy, 38. The evidence showed that West's working place was condemned owing to the presence of foul air. Missing West, and finding his lamp at the entrance to the condemned road, Joy and another miner named Edward Rogers went in search of him. Joy was overcome by the fumes and Rogers, feeling himself sway, was forced to retreat. Stanley Jones, another miner then entered with a rope around the waist, but was forced to return. He made a second entrance and recovered West's dead body. Joy's body was later found 15 yards down the road. High tributes were paid to the men's heroism by Mr Robert Jones, Coroner, who recorded a verdict of accidental death.
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