A little girl's survival in the Delabole Slate Quarries disaster
Published October 5, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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Millennial Star Research
During a catastrophe at the Delabole Slate Quarries in Cornwall, machinery and the ground beneath it collapsed 250 feet into the quarry. A little girl fell with the machinery from the top to the bottom and emerged entirely uninjured.
In Their Own Words
“A little girl fell with the machinery from the top to the bottom, and escaped uninjured. — Millennial Star 31:18”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 1 May 1869 (Vol. 31, No. 18). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1869-05-01_31_18 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)
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