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Show ' ., - O il , Ay Lt . I t . ' --' ' . Curvircr Tells C F:rr: :ii : J::rL; P:cr.t r?:(rr ft Frrn1:. I - the c." tl- . when; we r. ?! J food, s.l that In t: j mea: lin e we Fhou'.i endeavor to 1 ol.t our way out.- Y,e selected se-lected a place near the mouth of the-nun the-nun entry tur.nel and rtarted to work. We t ,nbe od as test ve cou!d fs v i went toward the efface. We I'd worked cl angi.-g har . i for gnv ty r.j more than five r."ur when, es I was purxLing with a bar, lt suddenly went throug-h the debris and a breath of air greeted me. I gave a few more punches and a rock biij enough to kill us fell in. When we saw we had resell tve surface sur-face we were mad with 5e..gM." Mackenzie, an Me!.:, --r i '.: r, elvt-s a thrilling p .. :rt 'f c- - '-uce cf himself and bis companions, vho were lmrr'rei in the r.lnes for rror- than twO.e heirs ly the treat lir. :sllde. ar. : whJ eve '.ually escaped 1 y c'.gging their way t? free lorn through forty feet of rock and debris. ''' ! ' ."Three -Clher.jr.Lner3 and. myself,'' said Maekenzle, "were working a crosscut cross-cut off frora-Noi 8 manway when we vere first aware that something unusual un-usual had happened I was" leaning against a chute Just at -that moment. Suddenly there seemed to be a falling In the hanging wall, and I was Imprisoned Impris-oned between a chute board, and the coal. We started for the mouth of the tunnel, but found our way blocked. After Af-ter a time I went down to the lower -entry to see how the water was rising. I found the situation quite alarming and figured that at the rate it was coming up we might expect It to flood1 the mine today about o'clock. "As wre had nothing to eat but the five horses being worked In the mine, which were still alive, I proposed kill- |