Show Rescued Men Describe Escape sj Ii- Ii As Hearing in Disaster Opens Never Expected to Get Out Alive 5 Snatched From Death Declare D clare Tell of Horrifying 12 Hours of Waiting Behind Be Be- Behind hind Barricade TALKED ALL NIGHT Scribbled Instructions oi on Wall for Rescuers STANDARDVILLE Feb 3 8 Spa Spa- cial cial Five Five Five- miners who chummed with the spectre spectra of death for twelve hours Flours in an an- underground tomb and nd emerged to toll the tho story today gave graphic accounts of their experience at the inquiry into the caUSe causa of th tho tha disastrous explosion in tho the Standard coal mine Thursday night that to today today to- to day had claimed twentY twenty three live lives The Tim five lve men were an- an among anong ong the nin rescued from tho the gas filled cavern of or death who appeared ac as witnesses at the hearing They rhey described how after the explosion they went to room No 4 O of slope No 1 1 u up the entry with canvas camas to keep back hack tho the deadly but undetectable tec table after damp and waited for or death or ox rescue The They expected death but ft n rescue crow headed hewed by Mine Mino Superintendent Superintend Superintend- ent Sterling Harvey lIat won the rac race rac and added the names of or J. J P. P Pritchett Pritchett PrU- PrU chett Barney A. A 4 Johnson WIlliam WIlliamH H H. MeGuire Claw Clawson on Elliott and VE V V. E. E Olson to the the- list of re rescued cued GIVES VIVID ACCOUNT J. J F. F Pritchett gave one of or th the m most vivid hid accounts of ot the thc horrifying horrifying horrify horrify- ing Ins wait walt In the barricaded cavern H Ho told toil how he heran ran to Mope topo No 1 i in search o of Frank and found f und the four miners who were ere later latel rescued with him how ho they built the bulwark against the ga baA they thep knew V was creeping through th the mine and how ho they spent pent the longest night of ot their lives We IVe agreed agreed- Pritchett related to keep talking talking- to each other so w we would know when to retreat to an another another another an- an other room Ho Hu then explained that a n. prolonged prolonged pro pro- longed silence from rom anyone would mean that the silent one was was- no no- longer ablo to talk and that it wa was time timo to move 6 on In WROTE MESSAGE With a piece ot of chalk had written on the wall of the tunnel tun tun- nd nel th tho brief message We Ve are in room 4 i. i enter through No 3 and lit it wn was their intention to write similar simi aim lar directions for or re rescue parties in lit incase case the they were forced farther r back into the tope slope All through the night they thoy sat Orthe on Or the floor saving sa their strength thinking their own thoughts and chatting chattin away to let each other know kno that the deadly after aCter damp had rot not Invaded their refuge refuSe Toward morning Johnson JoinSon fearing fearing fear fear- Mr- Mr In ing that the tho pas gas was seeping lJ through the barricade b began besan an le ve- ve on page paso 3 1 I I NEVER EVER EXPECTED I. I TO BE RESCUED MINERS DECLARE RE t C Continued from ft-em page pago 1 St St. Im cranking in tho canvas can He lie got at a few of oC the thc air on the other side O the bulwark and collapsed But trip p was sas close dose at hand Superintendent harvey Barve and his crew had hado found o nd the s scribbled r instructions and andT andere T Were ere re at that moment carrying ti rh h air into tho the slope so bo the they coul could u bring brins tho entombed miners cut it OTHERS TESTIFY Others who testified at the tho hearing hear hear- I fag ing were Andy And D. D D Dougherty Gerald Banasky Curley Monroe Io IOe and 31 M. M W W. Clelland These men all aU Jcl from the mine shortly af aft after af- af t ter r r tho explosion Johnson jJohnson and Clelland the only of or the rescued group roup who overcome O aro are reported to be e Ir a |