Show RE CUED FRmI THE j D OP1llS OF THE EARTH 1 Tourists HSVJ a Experience Almost > Al-most Miraculous j 1 i I BURIED ALIVE FOR MORE THAN A WEEK I J Clever Work of the Engineers and a 1 Brave Diver r1 1 r Passengers at Cn Who Saw the j Earth Tremble at Atalanta Part of the Fortifications at Clinlcix Falls Fonr Persons Killed nail Thirty Injured by n Sulphuric 1 Acid Explosion in London Othew Disasters on Sea and Land I l I j t I > I Gratz Australia > Aprll 2SA diver today reached the seven tourists imprisoned im-prisoned in the Stalactite cavern at Souraich since April 29 owing t the i sudden rise of water and the passage becoming blocked with timber and boulders They were alive The news that the tourists who have been so long imprisoned were stlll alive caused the utmost satisfaction among the crowds of people who gathered J about the cavern In order to watch the work of the engineer who have been toiling night and day ever since they j were ordered to the I ordere spot when the local authorities announced their Inability In-ability cavern to force an entrance into the The engineers had a very difficult ver difcult task in making an opening Into the cavern The entrance was blocked by timber boulders and flood i0cked It was absolutely necessary to use dynamite dyna-mite in order to clear away the obstructions ob-structions which I prevented the entrance of a diver into the cavern The engineers were compelled to work slowly and with the utmost caution as a i was feared that a too severe explosion ex-plosion might bury the Imprisoned people peo-ple beneath tons of rock When the debris had beel cleared away and all was ready for another attempt Diver Fischer made another attempt and this time succeeded In descending de-scending into the mouth of the cave When he appeared he notified the engineers that although the tourists were alive they appeared like people half bereft of reason the terrible nervous strain to which they had been subjected had almost driven them mad The tourist must have taken a considerable con-siderable supply of provisions with them when they went Into the cavern over a week ago as they still had according to the diver a little bread and cheese left and they had some candles burning The Imprisoned tourists informed the driver that they had passed 1 pssed through a period of most awful anxiety and terror They had been able to hear the attempts to rescue 1 them but the work seemed to progress pro-gress so slowly that they had almost abandoned hope The noise made by the explosion of the dynamite cheered up the imprisoned people though they were in dread of being burled beneath the falling rock Late in the afternoon after-noon the rescue was completed Six of the tourists were able to emerge J from the cave unaided but the seventh vas so exhausted that he required assistance ilstance Emperor Francis Joseph was notified of the tourists safety and telegraphed S tele-graphed his extreme satisfaction c A dispatch to the Times from Vienna says when connection was made with the entombed tourists they shouted We are all alive and well and still have provisions As soon as possible milk and brandy in bottles were handed to them through a small opening and they were asked to withdraw a far as they could to allow further blasting The rescued men state that a box of provisions which was sent by the rescuer through the water reached them on Wednesday last and kept them alive They heard the blasting and this renewed their hopes of rescue |