One of the three miners was the man who had smashed the pump at Gaston-Marie with a final blow of the shovel during the strike; the two others still had scars on their hands, and grazed, torn fingers from the energy with which they had thrown bricks at the soldiers.
Des trois mineurs, un était l'homme qui, pendant la greve, avait crevé la pompe de Gaston-Marie d'un dernier coup de pioche; les deux autres gardaient des cicatrices aux mains, les doigts écorchés, coupés, a force d'avoir lancé des briques sur les soldats.