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The Diamond Drill
Crystal Falls, MI
October 12, 1907


                           Loses His Reason
                           
              GEORGE SEBASTONO, who displayed such presence of
            mind when the cage was making its descent to the
            bottom of the shaft of the Rolling Mill mine at
            Negaunee by catching hold of a cross bar above his
            head and pulling his feet up from the floor in order
            to avoid the shock that he knew would follow, has
            lost his reason. SABASTONO was the least injured of
            the seven men taken out of the shaft alive, and it
            was thought that he would recover and be able to 
            resume his work in a few weeks. He was discharged
            from the hospital last week, and is now living with
            his brother. He talks a good deal in a rambling way
            about the runaway cage and the incidents that fol-
            lowed the crash. For a few days after the disaster
            SABASTONO was able to give good account of the
            catastrophe, but when sleeping he would often scream,
            as the men doubtless did when they were going down
            to their doom.
              The other men confined to the hospital are getting
            along as well as might be expected, but it is feared
            that some of them will not recover.
            
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