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13 October 2012

COOGAN story 

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appearing in "Gettysburg Times" [PA], 29 JUL 1913, PAGE 4:

ENGULFED IN MINE;
SAVES DOG FIRST

Man Sidestepped Cave-in All
Night

Shenandoah, Pa., July 29 - John Coogan, of Philadelphia, who is
spending his vacation with relatives here, was walking with a dog
on Locust mountain, near here, when the earth gave way under his
feet, engulfing him into the old workings of Kohinoor colliery,
forty feet deep.

Coogan cried for help until he became exhausted.  At last he lay
down with the dog to await daylight, but the sides of the breach
started to cave in and he was kept busy side-stepping and codging
falling debris until morning, when he again cried for help.

Peter Becker, watchman at Nieswinter's colliery, heard him. Becker,
John Brown, Alex Maze and Horace and Joseph Scott lowered a rope.
Coogan first tied the rope around the dog, and after the animal
was hoisted unhurt the man was pulled to the surface.  Beyond a
few slight bruises he is uninjured.

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