Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-02-08 | Page 7 | Entombed 25 Days; Rescued from Ruins

ENTOMBED 25 DAYS RESCUED RUINS ROME lOME Fob S. S 11 1145 45 a. a m. m Few iu Few men meui have havo lived li to tell n a stranger talc tale than that of Michiel who was a extracted from the tho earthquake ruins ruin at Paterno Y yesterday aV after having been beon imprisoned onell for twenty five days without foo food lo is recovering from front the effects of his which he was ablo able to describe today I When I the carth earthquake occurred he hc said I 1 attempted to escape but found myself blocked within a sta stable lo by the ruins Beneath the stable lo loa a cell rell w was being dug from tho the rocks I m made dc In my way war into this excavation and so a ao avoided o being crushed to death tho It From the moment I 1 entered tho the cellar I saw aw DO no more light nn rind I 1 believed I had lund become blind as my mind could not conceive oncel that tho ruins ruins covered tho tim cellar so completely at as to prevent a single ray ot of light from frolD penetrating through For a long time time time-L L cannot say how ho hol l long long ny o n-o despair increased until I became almost frenzied I shouted with al nil all my mj strength nth until I fell into an fin apathetic ron condition almost like liko coma This saved su W my life lic for had I continued lD my desperate efforts to free freo myself I must havo havu died died of exhaustion By Bv Ih feeling about with mth my ray hands in the thc darkness I found a n wet spot and moistened my burning lips lips' This revived mo tnt rind ond with my h hands bands I dug a hole holc in m which water collected and I was able to drink Thus Thug I managed to exist how exist how long I r know not as I r lost count dithe of di f the days until until yesterday 1 heard 1 voices above inc mo Said ono one All ar are dead Another answered l Quite Quito so but let us recover reco what we can of or our property I T I aroused mF myself lf to make mako a supreme effort an and screamed I II nm am Ot alive hero here in the tho cellar Michiel Those above o me I am nm tolu tolo thought it Jt was a ghost but butt I continued my mv cries and convinced them theft that thata a l living iD man was imprisoned in the ruins They came to my re rescue cuo and aud in about t three hours I was ras free