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| 18 | 160 | Some lost their footing, and View more quotes about bodies">bodies were wedged in the shaft. |
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| 18 | 157 | "Drag the last men into the tunnel!" I yelled. |
| 18 | 158 | "Get them out of the cell!" But my last words were drowned in a hurtling plunging cataract of water that shattered on my body like a great fist, knocking my breath out. |
| 18 | 159 | It roared down the shaft, pounding on the men. |
| 18 | 160 | Some lost their footing, and bodies were wedged in the shaft. |
| 18 | 161 | It was impossible to breathe, to move, to see. |
| 18 | 162 | Then as suddenly as it had begun, the cataract ceased. |
| 18 | 163 | Above, whoever worked the valve must have grown impatient and thrown it open completely, or perhaps the sudden torrent of water had been intended as a gesture of mercy to drown any survivors quickly. |