Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-02-06 | Page 19 | Finance Watches Rescue Efforts Marriage Scheduled for Thursday

Fiancee Wat hes Rescue Efforts Effort I Collins Collins' to Bride Silent Figure O 0 Marriage Scheduled for Th Thursday LOUISVILLE Ky ICy Feb Feb 6 A A A solitary figure figue stood i ija ip the thc glow of a hilltop campfire last night watching silently the shaft ft being sunk inch by inch to Floyd C Collins The lights light's 5 reflection revealed after arter a minute two streams of tears on the watcher watch- watch Pers Per's er rs r's s face but they were never ne brushed awa away away says a copyright story tory of the Journal Courier-Journal from Cave City today J This silent observer was Alma Clark 22 living eight miles from Cave City come to mourn on what was to have been her wedding day and for him who was to have re been her husband Alone she stood as scores of workmen exerted themselves themselves them- them selves to force torce a way through rock ind nd earth Into the cavern OME LAUGHED Around her many were wre talking calling to one another and some were vere laughing They didn't know they didn't even see this figure nor did she see them She held her eyes es on the new made shaft She turned finally and in a a. a moment momentS i S iwas was lost In the darkness Her tears her expression and her walk told plainly that her I hopes are no more that she feels the cave which Floyd Collins set out opt to explore will not release its Us grip until he dies It has held him seven days das It has held out hope to him time and again but It shattered shattered shattered shat shat- them beyond recall when It closed dosed the one avenue to the world outside ELOPEMENT PLANNED Floyd loyd Collins and Miss Alma Aima Clark were to have eloped today but only a few of theirs their friends knew the secret One of them a roan man saw the girl at t the shaft shan last night and saw the saddened face He r saw and knew he understood rind and and he turned his eyes as she passed him Others of course knew of the friendship and some might have known that the wedding day was set for tor March 2 2 But very few knew that l Floyd oyd Collins and Miss Mis cIrk had n d decided definitely to steal quietly away today and return ag 88 man and wife i. i if It was said that objections to Athe the marriage had been made and andi i that the elopement was planned as fr of overcoming It w t- t And And this may be why Floyd Colllns Collins wouldn't give up his fight for for- life when he knew the fight I se seemed med lost It may explain why I jI C f C Collins kept courage when rescuers n n friends were downcast It ma may ii how now Collins endured torture I CV a smile at times through six f q S In ln the grip of a stone In the I I c f cave cave and It may show the power i that t kept alive that spark of faith 4 he e cherished II 1