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Show ENTOMBED MEN KEPT UP SPIRITS, THOUGH HOPE ALMOST DESERTED THEM e JOnNSTOWN, Pa., May 1. Taken from the dark recesses of a coal mine, where they had been imprisoned for more than 100 hours, the seven men rescued from the Berwind White mine at Foustwell are lying in the hospital, physically exhausted and oblivious to all around them. The men were reached at 10 o'clock last night, but were not brought out until early this morning, the physicians fearing the effects of a reaction from the strain and exposure to the outer air. When brought out, all the men wanted to go to their homes and were taken to the hospital under protest. No food was given them at first, but only a stimulant in the form of brandy and water. Soon after arriving at the hospital the men were sound asleep and no communication com-munication is allowed with them. Correspondents Cor-respondents and newspaper photographers photogra-phers who swarm about the vicinity of the hospital are turned aside and the men are not disturbed except at regular regu-lar intervals, when the nurses administer adminis-ter hot broths and other nourishment. Immediately after these treatments the men again drop to sleep. "We knew the men on the outside were, pumping out the water in an endeavor en-deavor to release us. We kept a careful watch and could note the water going down. There waa nothing we eould do to help and we all chafed nnder this until we could hear the tapping nnder the pipe and knew it meant for as to keep up our courage," said Foreman Bolva. "We always signaled back whenever we heard the tapping. All the men had full dinner backets when they came into the mine Friday morning, but the food in these was soon exhausted and we felt the pangs of hunger keenly. I don't think the men, after the third day, ever expected to see their families again, but the way they kept up their spirits waa admirable.'' |