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Show YOUNG MAN HAS REMARKABLE I ESCAPE FROM DEATH. IS GIVEN UP FOR LOST Cries for Help Finally Heard by One of Rescuers and He Is Taken Out with Not a Bone In Boody Broken. Pottsvllle. Pa Palling 400 feet down an abandoned mine shaft, Joseph Jos-eph Schroeder of Pottsvllle was reH cued alive, after he had been virtually virtual-ly burled nil day and nil hope of IiIh rescue abandoned When examined It was found Schroeder had not even a broken bone It was the most ox-trnordlnur) ox-trnordlnur) escape known In tho history his-tory of anthracite mining. Young Schroeder left town In company com-pany with William Kalbacli, to shoot pheasants. While pushing their way through tho brush toward tho mountain moun-tain top Schroeder took tho lead. Ho walked Into a drift, lighted a match, nnd called to Kalhach to follow, Suddenly Sud-denly ho gave n cry of surprise and attempted to step back, but tho ground nt the edge of a hole gavo way with him, nnd ho plunged feet first down Into an abyss. Knlbnch hurried forward and ho, too, almost plunged down tho holo after his companion. Had he dono so tho mystery of their dlsnppearanco probably never would hnvo been solved. Seeing he could be of no aid to his unfortunate companion. Knllmch started start-ed down tho mountain for Mlddlcport on the run, and In n short tlmo a dozen men accompanied him linck with long lengths of rope They went ns close as they possibly could In safety und culled down the shaft. Nothing but the echo of their voices greeted them Then they tied a weight to the end of n rope and lowered low-ered It can-fully into the black pit It struck several times along tho side of tho Jagged opening but lluall) It was lowered to Its full length, hut the hot-torn hot-torn had not been reached Men were sent buck to town for more rope, mid when they came hack tho attempt was again made, but again tho end of the rope failed lo |