Show SEVEN FIFTY COAL COM MINERS TAKEN OUT f ALIVE Men Entombed in Colliery Four Days DaY's by Explosion Explosion sion Rescued FIVE WALK UNAIDED Government Party Finds Finds' Party of 52 Joy RePlaces Replaces Replaces Re Re- places Grief B By United Pre Press LAYLAND W W. Va March 6 seven Fifty coal miners were found found alive today after being entombed for tor tormore more than four days day and four nights in No 3 mine on moun mouin mountain moun tain tali of or tho the Now New River and Pocahontas Pocahontas Poca Poca- hontas Consolidated Coal and Coke company where early lost last Tuesday an explosion burled buried 18 men This left Idt thirty-seven thirty of ot the en entombed entombed entombed en- en ment meat yet to h he accounted for tor tonight as ten had been rescued the first day of tho explosion and seven seven- ty-eight ty bodies recovered Five of the tho men mon round alive 0 today walked out without support The They had existed for those six ninety-six hours on th the contents ont S' S of ot their dinner dinner dinner din din- ner palls and with the fre fresh h water they found In the remote chamber of ot tho the mine where tho they fled from the poisonous gases and afterdamp which followed the e explosion Rescue Party Finds Fifty A government rescue pait party today located two fifty more in entries 9 and 10 These were brought to tho open and placed in a temporary hos hos- pital A strong guard was thrown around the hospital and nono none ad ad- d. d When tho the explosion lon first occurred these the so men started for tor the tho mouth of mine No 3 but upon finding bodies hodies of ot men men who were killed d by the force of the explosion retired to entry No 9 which is beyond a trap door There they stationed themselves awaiting rescue padres pa After Atter their hopes hope o o- o rescue were vera practically abandoned and when whon suffering Buttering from want of ot food and water became acute lye five of 01 th tho entombed entombed en- en men volunteered to grope their way out Grief Turns lurns to to Joy Weakened from Insufficient nourishment nour nour- and teak inS to U light ht their lamps amps lamps these five met merj mell all n forel foreigners rs clambered for ho hours hours' rs' rs over o er debris be be before fore ore they met the rescue part party The grief and that has marked marke l tho the faces of tho the women and children of ot the tho men In the minI mine sinco the explosion explosions occurred has been een changed to that of ot hope and ho tho reunion of ot those mourned for tor dead was pitiful The families of ot the entombed men are ore gathered around the drift mouth of ot the mine tonight awaiting the ro ro- ro turn urn of ot rescue crews crews' with either the dead or living c n |