| Show MINER MB RELATES RELA ns TALE Of TERROR P J Brown Tells of Days Spent in Depths at Ely I JOY FOLLOWS SUFFERING HOW PRISONERS SP SPENT ENT THE THELONG THELONG 7 LONG DAYS P J Brown one or the three e men who were Imprisoned for days 1000 feet underground in the Giroux shaft haft at Ely came to Salt Lake last night from Ely He gives a graphic account of the f anxious days and nights that were passed by him and his fellow prisoners while Waiting for or their rescuers We were Viere working 1097 feet under underground underground underground ground when the came said Brown fIr I was working in one com corn compartment McDonald and Constant Constanti in ii the he next one and Turner in the third I r hardly know what happened first everything was done so quickly There berc was a load roaring r sound and the tights lights went out in a second secondI I shouted to the boys to climb and started up the timbering at the corner of the shaft feeling all the time for forthe forthe forthe the ladder I had climbed up about ten feet before I found the ladder ladd r Then I went up the other feet as aa fast as I could Before I reached the he top I was stepping on dirt and knew that the shaft was fast filling In inI r I L had not been up to the station on the tho level more than two minutes when the dirt filled in above the thesta sta station tion ion Just as I reached the top of the th ladder I brushed against a man I asked him who it was and he replica replie McDonald I asked if either of the others had come up and he said he thought not nol I knew then that they the never would come out of the shaft alive As we went into the pump sta station station station tion Bailey the at the sta station station tion ion was leaving the telephone booth When the came he lie tried to tel telephone telephone telephone ephone out but the cave had broken the telephone wires First Glimpse of Prison Bailey found a candle and we lit it and we looked around The dirt from the by that time lime had blocked the he entrance from the shaft to the sta station station tion Uon and had slid sUd in ten feet into the chamber The heat of the place wa was Insufferable It must have been about degrees After we had rested a few moments and nd felt able we unscrewed the pipe for the water column from the pump Jump It took up up about an hour to do dohis this his Then we took turns rapping on the pipe with a wrench From Prom 1030 in the morning until In the afternoon we kept on oi rapping on the pipe before we heard anything from the he surface We were vere almost almot ready to toive give sive ive up in despair when we heard them liem yelling down to us We thought that hat the cave ave had broken the pipe and that we were doomed to a slow and terrible death in the little chamber I Right after we heard the men on the tho surface yelling to us a can of wa water water water ter attached to a rope came down We heard it rattling ii ir the pipe and reached into the Joint with an eight foot hanger and ad secured it ft Then a note came from the electrician telling us to attach the broken telephone wires to the wires on the electric cable which were not broken Makeshifts for Comfort Within a few fe moments we were talk talking ing Ipg over the telephone Within half halt an hour food and candles had been sent down downto to us and an air all was being pumped down the pipe which cooled the chamber and re restored restored restored stored our hopes For the firt t few nights we sleep at all but just huddled round our candles and dreaded every sound After that we began to make the best of it We Ve knew that we would have to remain there for tor probably a long time and the thing to do was to stick It out The boys bos on the surface sent us down pieces of blan blankets blankets blankets Inches square with need needles tIes les and thread We Ve tore down the tele telephone telephone telephone phone booth and got other pieces of tim timber timber timber ber with which we made three cots We Ve made a stove by using a lot of candles With a pot made out of half of a five gallon oil oU can we made our coffee and tea and heated water We Ve discovered that there was a thirty foot drift running back from the station and had It not been for that I think we should have gone crazy craz There the mob most of our time was spent walking up and down like three caged lions At night two of us slept while the third stayed on watch We took turns staying up at night in order that we could telephone to the surface If anything went wrong with the theair theair theair air or the became worse Fears Ever Present If it had not been for tor the thought that tha any day might be our last that the top of the station might cave in that the theair theair theair air pipe might break or something else happen we would have had a royal roya time The boys above sent us down everything we wanted All the choice delicacies were ours We got smoking tobacco wine and everything that could go down the tho pipe Our health was as fine except that o of McDonald on one day He had a bilious headache and felt pretty prett bad I got up and lit our stove and heated some wa wit water water witter ter We had some towels and Bailey applied them to his head till he heTHE heTHE heTHE THE ARCHITECT Specifies Spec ies P L Varnish I 1 THE PAINTER Uses P F L Varnish THE OWNER buys P F I L Varnish o 0 THE REASON All know kow know It is the best That s Sufficient S t lorrison Morrison Merrill Co 28 Main I r went to sleep He slept for several hours and woke up feeling fine It seems like we were down there a year jear the days das came and went so slowly There was nothing for us to do but wait walt and hope ope and we did it keeping up our ou courage and trying tring not to think what might happen The last four hours we ye were in the shaft we were digging oat with one shovel to meet our rescuers When I saw the first gleam of ot their JI lights through the sand I was gladder than I ever oer expect to be 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