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Show UM e.we topper ii.inf ,vmu i i 1 I Miner Rescued After Eight Foodless Days Lost in Tunnels FLEMZNGTON, W. Ve Feb. S (At Eight foodless days of utter darkness while lost in ths debris-choked passageways of an abandoned mine ended today for Robert Johnson, Sft-jrear-old rural Vail carrier. "I sure thought I was a goner," he said. - Ha told from his cot in a hos pital of praying through ths long hours in the damp mine, of giving up all hope, then of seeing a dim glow of lamps carried by rescus workers. "Thank God, my prayers were answered," he sobbed fervently before a sleeping potion quieted him. Doctors had broken his long 1 fast he had only sulphur water to drink In -the mine with bowls of strained soup. The rescue crews found Johnson John-son nearly two miles from ths mins entrance early today. He was huddled behind a heap of jagged chunks of slate In the mine which be operated to dig coal in bis spare time for sals to 1 neighbors. Three of ths scores of volunteers volun-teers who had searched the mine day "and night sines Johnson disappeared dis-appeared January 27, heard his feeble cries for help while exploring ex-ploring a narrow tunnel. C. P. Pride, assistant aafety director for the stats department of mines, told ef administering I first aid, and declared: "Johnson's physical condition was excellent considering ths long exposure. He hsd been drinking sulphur water and his lips were badly parched. He thought be had been in the mine for a month." Placed on a stretcher, Johnson recognised one by one the men f y who carried him from ths mine, wading shoulder deep through five feet of icy water. Near the mine entrance they halted. It was comparatively warm in the mine but outside a heavy snow was falling. They heated stones, wrapped them in blankets and placed them about Johnson, then carried him to an ambulance. i |