Show A Brave Lad Houghton Mich May 7With a box containing SOO pounds of dynamite on fire ten feet awav from him John Thomas n boy who runs a compressed air hoisting engine in the Tamarack mine stuck to his post and saved the lives of the men at work In the mineby I his wonderful bravery I Ten seconds after Thomas had hoisted the men to the level the dynamite dyna-mite exploded smashing the engine to pieces and doing other damage but them the-m n and the boy to whom they owe their lives were in a place of safety The miners working In the twenty I third level had put seven cases of dynamite dyna-mite in a box future use At noon a miner accompanied by Thomas went to his pot gave the alarm to the miners in the level below and ran his engine until he had hoisted them out He then fed The alarm of fire caused great excitement but no miners were injured In the rush to daylight from a depth of from 3000 to 4000 feet I o |