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Show Miner Finds His Way Out of Old Mine Against Great Odds wandered into abandoned mine No. 6, adjoining the Briar Hill mine, and stumbled onto crumbling crumb-ling air and escape shaft. "He climbed out, but I don't know how he did it," Newsom said. "He looks all richt and doesn't seem to be injured., Hp seemed to need a shave." Lee went into the mine Sunday morning; alone. He had not been heard from since. Newsom said Lee's escape was "miraculous" "There wasn't one chance in a thousand of him finding his own way out," he said. "At least none of the miners hereabouts believed he could." I'INCKNKYVILLK. m., ivc. 7 liwienece Leo. 2S. lost in a niizo of treacherous pnssage-ivs pnssage-ivs of the old liriar Hill mine for " urn days, found a long-iotKotten '.ipe 'exit today and elimbed to . surface. Hp was thirsty and hungry but : vralki'J stoadily. I sure am j:lad to bo out." i all ho said before excited ,'ieinls rushed him home. When he had been given noui-hinent, noui-hinent, the young bookkeeper Jold his wile he hud "just drifted ' (.uml down there." ' jus. Lee was overjoyed. She L trje(i us she told of her husband's escape- -He seems all right,' she said. .This morning at seven o'clock he (mind the shaft and came out. -That's about all there is to it." Edsar Newsom, treasurer of the i . 0 Briar Hill company, said Lee |