Show RESCUED from LIVING TOMO AFTER ORTI SIX otis OMS three miners who were held pals prisoners by mine accident little worse for experience ely nev after having been entombed forty six days in me alpha shaft of the baroux GU mine A D bailey P J brown and fred mcdonald have been rescued at 8 30 0 clock clolk sunday night bailey dalley was brought out fourteen minute later mcdonald came to the surface while ten minutes afterwards brown wag was brought up whistles all over the district blew loudly while crowds cheered in the streets of ely and every bell la jn the town was ringing 0 on the morning of december 4 mcdonald brown and bailey and two greeks were working in the bottom of the third compartment shaft eighty five feet below the pump station and 1085 feet below the surface the cave in occurred at 9 0 clock s the cable used to haul the caged from t the he thard compartment to the 00 st aft snapped and thousands of tai of rock debris and timbers tell fell down into the shaft from the bottom bottora biot of the compartment in which tha th aren were working to the pumping station a distance of eighty five feet a series of rickety ladders offered the only oaly means of escape r with falling rocks and timber streaming down upon them the icya struggled up these those ladders halt half wy up falling timbers knocked the two tto greeks from the ladder killing tham bailey dailey mcdonald and brown managed to reach the pump station its well timbered root roof had withstood the rock and timber that came down the shaft shaft and offe ed them shelter and safety here for the first day after the cave in the men crouched while at intervals they could bear the rocks and timbers crashing above them at first it was thought that all the men had perished but twenty tour four hours after the calein 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 of saving the lives live ot the three men when communication was once established with the world above and the men had made known the tact fact that they were still alive food and drink were immediately lowered through th pipe he men were thus kept supplied with food and drink un xin til their rescuers were able to dig them out |