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| 17 | 19 | They would strangle one of their View more quotes about fellows">fellows who thought of rebellion, rather than risk the flooding of the chamber. |
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| 17 | 16 | I had learned that only a month before, in a mine not five hundred yards from this one, there had been a disturbance created by a single prisoner. |
| 17 | 17 | "Drown them all," had been the decision of the Administrator of the Mines. |
| 17 | 18 | I was not surprised then that the prisoners themselves looked with horror upon the very thought of resistance. |
| 17 | 19 | They would strangle one of their fellows who thought of rebellion, rather than risk the flooding of the chamber. |
| 17 | 20 | Indeed, the entire mine itself could, in an emergency, be flooded. |
| 17 | 21 | Once, I was told, it had happened, to quell an uprising. |
| 17 | 22 | To pump out the water and clear the shafts of bodies had taken weeks. |