Show MIMED ENTOMBED FIFTEEN IS TOED remarkable escape of man bur ed under thousands of tons of earth while his compan ions are killed bakersfield cal L R hicks the miner who was entombed by a cave in in a tunnel of the edison electric power company dec 7 was rescued at 1 25 clock saturday night hicks the miner who was rescued was entombed alive under sixty feet of debris fifteen days previous in the tunnel of the edison electric power company seventeen miles northeast of this city five of hla fellow worl ers were burled at the same time by the cave in of thou sands of tons of earth and rock the work of le covering the bodies was immediately begun and prosecuted with vigor but owing to tan yielding nature of the soil progress was made hope of rescuing any of the vie tims had been abandoned when three days after the disaster th sound of tapping on a water pipe ir the shaft was heard instantly a re was sent and the answerl ns raps plainly proved that at least conj of the imprisoned miners was alive the water pipe was cleared an communication established through it with the man at the of th shaft he proved to be hicks a for mer soldier and an expert miner whose life had been saved by a steea car under which be was pinned II 11 five companions were dead |