Theodore Boettcher, 37, coal miner, saved Daniel Hopp, 38, from a blast in a mine, Belleville, Illinois, November 16,1905. Boettcher, from a place of safety, rushed to a blast and pulled out the fuse, which had burned to within a quarter of an inch of the powder, to save Hopp, who had been pinned to the floor by a fall of slate, 6 feet from the blast.
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