Martin F. Mangan, 26, mine footman, helped to save Joseph Lucas, 33; James E. Dougher, 27, and Anthony Gowrey, 43, miners, from suffocation, Sebastopol, Pennsylvania, January 10, 1911. Mangan went with four other men into a heading of a coal mine, one-half mile from the shaft, immediately following an explosion that had deflected the air current and filled that and other headings with after damp. They found Lucas, unconscious, and carried him into fresh air. Returning, Mangan and four others found Dougher, whom they also carried out. All had been somewhat affected by the after damp. Mangan and three of the men went through another heading into the gangway where the explosion had occurred, where they found Gowrey. A second explosion seemed imminent, and Mangan went with two of the men to obtain a stretcher. They returned and carried Gowery out while the fourth man in their party continued, to save another man. Lucas and Dougher were revived. Gowery was badly burned. 6416-526
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