| Show RESCUED room m SIX DAYS DAIS three miners who were held pris pr opera by mine accident little worse for experience ely nov after having been entombed forty six days in the me alpha shaft of tho the giroux mine A D bailor bailey P J drown brown and fred mcdonald have been rescued at sunday night bailey was brought out fourteen minutes later mcdonald came to the surface while ten minutes afterwards brown was brought up whis whistles ales all allover the district blow blew loudly while crowds cheered in tho the streets of ely and every bell in tho the town yeas was ringing on the morning of december 4 mcdonald brown and bailey and two greeks were working in the bottom of tho the third compartment shaft eighty five feet bolow below the pump sta tion and 1086 1085 feet below the surface the cave in occurred at 9 the cable used to haul the cage from the third compartment to the shaft snapped and thousands of tona tolis of rock debris and timbers fell down into the shaft from the bottom of the compartment in which the men were working to the pumping station a distance of eighty five feet a series of rickety ladders offered the only means of escape with falling failing rocks and timbers streaming down upon them the five up these ladders half way up falling timbers knocked the two greeks from the ladder killing them bailey McDon mcdonald aldand and brown managed to reach the pump station its well timbered roof had withstood the rock and timber that came down tho the shaft and offered them shelter and safety here tor for the first day after the cave in the men mail crouched while at intervals they could hear the rocks and a nd timbers crashing above them at first it t was thought that all the men had bad perished but twenty four hours after the cave in the three men who occupied the pumping station managed to make themselves heard by tapping upon the six inch water pipe that stretched from the pumping station to the surface it was this pipe that was the means meana of saving the lives ot the fhe three men when communication was once established with the world above and the men had mado made known the fact that they were still alive food and drink were immediately lowered through th the pipe alpo he men were hua kept supplied with food and drink until their rescuers were able to dig them out |
