Show RESCUED FROM MINE AFTER BEING imprisoned SEV EN DAYS IN BURNING MINE TWENTY I 1 MEN SAVED fought apparently hopeless battis against death eating bark from timbers and leather from the r caps to sustain life cherry ills ilis hoping against hope and fighting against the terrible heat and gases in the blazing coal mine rescuers in search of bodies came upon tm nty men who still clung to life on saturday and the men were brought to the top all are on the road to recovery after a harrowing ex peri ence which seems almost beyond belief after seven days and nights of con in the mine in which hun deeds met death when fire broke out after sufferings which almost drove them to madness they are again sur rounded by their wives and children and from staring death in the face are again planning bright things for the future after the men had been located it took six hours to bring them to the surface and when the cage came up with the men aboard almost every human being in the little town was present there were many dramatic scenes enacted unbounded joy upon the part of the families of the rescued men while others who had hoped that their loved ones were among those that had been miraculously spared turned away in bitter heartbreaking d saD one of the men rescued says at A f one clock last saturday the pit boss came to measure my work after ha he went I 1 waited for the team to come for foi the coal but in two hours it had no come so I 1 started to find out what was the matter pretty soon I 1 saw e and I 1 felt that the ventilation fan had stopped the fire had been burning for an hour but that was the first I 1 knew of it I 1 started to run then but me george eddy and some others about 21 in all and mr eddy led i us is wa back where I 1 bad had been working th u el we tried to throw up a barrier but it was pitch dark and we did not ge 90 along well all the time we breathed bad gas I 1 had nothing to eat of nn mi own but I 1 chewed bark and dran water later we even ate the leather from our caps we got the water bv making little holes in the bottom of the entry we made five of these holes and there was always some one at them at first he said the men an songs told stories and hoped for re cue B it at the last all hope had been abandoned and the men were too weak to sing or talk twenty saved 92 known dead an ana missing ff is now the record at th st paul mine there is still hope 0 others being rese led alive |