Tony Brewis wrote:
>
> Re the good news of the rescue of nine miners through a drill hole
> in the US.
>
> There has been at least one earlier such rescue, at the Lassing
> talc mine in the Austrian Alps, about 200 km south of Vienna.
The most famous rescue via a drill hole in Germany is known as
the "Wunder von Lengede" (the Lengede miracle / 1963).
See
http://50jahre-deutschland.bild.de/60iger/63/leben/12/12.html
for a short desription (in German).
To summarize, the accident was caused by floodwater and more
than 129 men were trapped in the iron-ore mine near Ilsede
(Salzgitter area). 19 men were killed at once, 89 were rescued
within the next few days. The remaining 21 miners rescued
themselves into an abandoned section of the mine. Ten of them
were killed by falling rock. 14 days after the accident
the surviving eleven miners were rescued by a so called
'Dahlbusch-Bombe' via a drill hole.
(The 'Dahlbusch-Bombe' is a torpedo-like cylinder with
a length of 2.50 m and a diameter of 0.4 m)
Greetings
Harald
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Dr.-Ing. Harald Finster / Aachen Germany
http://www.finster-stahlart.de industrial history and architecture
http://www.astrid-aix.de gallery: watercolours and oil paintings
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