Meaning of the pickaxes?
After the explosion and cave-in, the mine elevator comes up twice with miners, the second load worse off than the first. On the third load, there are only pickaxes - on the first level, three with the axe head laid on the rail; on the second level, two with the handle wedged under the rail, and one with the axe head laid on the rail. One of the miners whispers something to Mr. Gruffydd about this, but I'm not a good enough lipreader to make out what he says. Anybody know what this means?
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