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Show I Tl.e four linprlaoned Miners. No more thrilling talo baa lieeli told recently than that of the fonr men res cued from the conl inlno al .leanesvllle, Va. Away down WO feet Mow the surface of II eartli, threenarters uf Mile from the eniraiire shaft. Miners vero iblrinK at the ro.il seims as nsual one day. HadJenly, without n moment's wamlnir, a delnje of water brolrii thtou jh from a shift of an abaft lotied mine. What started It will never be known, prolably. In five minutes It was 300 feet deep In th. loiter portion of lb. mine, iImukIi miners nsret the shaft ramped. When the roll camo to i li called elithteen wire tnl-fnr- Brr-h of these as were not drowned by tho flood wonld naturally seek rrfnire In the blither pAaupways letllng off from the level. Tlie mine was honeycombed with these, for It had been wurked nearly fitly years. Tho water bad filled the main tha ft lo nthlnlof ItsileptlL Bat there was one i thing It ruu 1 not do. Who.i It rushed tn a mighty torrent Into Uio mine It drove the air Uforo It ni the narrow tuisanirewnyi an 1 tsicked It into the en Is of Iheto. Ths water euull not K through Hi" air. It conl 1 drive It over nr-ni llsrlf and compress It, bnt the more the air was compressed the more I lire-toed the water, till at la-tthoalr I kept the water ont of the filrlllt end of the suiMiKewa)S its effectually ns If it Ilia 1 Imn a wall of brick an 1 inorur. That saved tho lives of tho fonr who were rescnM. It iravo them nlr of a ' iresenro of four atmovpheroa tu breathe, bntft sated them. Orent enjlnes, pnmplng S.CO) gallons k minute, were put to wotk, anl the pnniM llirt.lit.-l dsy and nlftht. The mine innit l cleorr-l anl thelsslleeof thoiowho bI lieen drowned lirourht out nod buried. Half a month went on, and the pnmiisouly then ceased to throb. Tlio water was low enough to aearch for tire bodies, het eral wtro fonnd In one rpot It waa (lain that n lire had Iveti klndll,andthatbalraue.l the death of four iu n who hod clustered around It. Tlie Ibuneeliadrousuuied theoxygeti lu tho confined air of tho "jsh kef in which they were Inclosed, and the men weie slowly asphyilated to tlielr death. Tlie seanli went on until tlw bodies of all bnt four hod Urn found. The rcf liters thsmselres braved death n hun. Orel tbnee a day from suffocation In tbo close nlr, but the work did not stop a inoinetit. The full dangers and dlUlcnltlcs of that dread search cannot lw fully toll. A line of pickets over the whole three (matters of n mile to tho Mitrauco of the mine was kept constantly on tho alert Once a lulnnte, day and night, tho six nal jiassed from man to man, "All lljlitr TheywUlhearUlnthelrdrrams for months to come, thosa brave fellow s. Tho nineteenth daycame. AtfloMock In the evening tho workers stood In front of "breast No. 0." Suddenly the face of I one of Ihem blanched and bis r)cs blazed. Uo spoke, and this la what he said, "I beard soinclhtngr Then through n iwusAi-eiviiy only Ihrea fi-et high they crawUsl, over jagged coal and sltte, tlielr clothes torn, their hands bleeding, and brought the four living men out of their inison. In tho Ant days of tlwir hut rlsonment the fonr men bal found a little foul lu their dinner wtils. Then the strongest one of them kilted rats, with wllcli the ml no waa fnfeste.1. Tliry ale tbo legs of Iheso rule, aa epicure cat frogs' legs, and that kept the life In tliein. Out at tiresome time It required all the fwble stnngth thitwiM In thtm to keep the rata from eating them, At lat only hope was left Hum, and they lived on that till rescue camr. Tenderly as new Urn Infants tho four sartid turn were comcted tu k lsnillng In the upward shaft. They were too nbarutcd tube taken farther. At 3 tiMock In the morning the rescn Ins party ascended to the surface, blackened, black-ened, 1-egrlined anl bleeding, themselrea cibaustod almost to the i-jlnt cf faint-ln. faint-ln. Tlielr thoughts tnnie.1 then to wluronll wen's thoughts rly In times alike of great fear cr gnat Joy, to the dread unfathomable source of all that Is, was or shall bo. Tliey ttoprinl before the honso of the senior member of the company, and therein tho darkness, w Ilh all their souls la their tolces, rang "Pral-o Uod, from whom all biasings flow." |