Show I Mid ENTOMBED FIFTEEN DAYS S IS RESCUED ALIVE Remarkable Escape of Man Burled Under Thousands of Tons of Earth While His Companions Compan-ions Arc Killed Bakersfield CnI II Hlckc 9io minor who was entombed by a cJfvc In In a tunnel of the Ildlwon Electric Power company Dec 7 was rescuer at 125 oclock Saturday night Hicks tho minor who was rescued was entombed alive under sixty feet of debris fifteen days previous in tho tunnel IIr the Edison Electric Power romiuiny seventeen miles northeast of this city Five of his follow woiKors wero hurled at tho I same time by the caveIn of thousands I thou-sands of tons of earth and rook The work of ivcovoring the bodies was Immediately begun and prosecuted prose-cuted with vigor but owing to tho yielding nature of tho soil slow progress was made Hope of rescuing any of the victims vic-tims had been abandoned when jlhreo days after tho disaster the sound of tupping on a water pipe In 1 the shaft was heard Instantly are sponso was sent and tho answering raps plainly proved that at least ono of tho Imprisoned miners was alive Tho water pipe was cleared and communication established through it with tho man at the bottom of the shaft Ho proved to bo hicks a former for-mer soldier and an expert miner whoso life had been saved by a stool car under which ho was pinned Ills flvo companions ware dead |