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Show MINER ENTOMBED FIFTEEN DAYS IS RESCUED AEIVE Remarkable Escape of Man Burled Under Thousands of Tons of Earth, While His Compan-Ions Compan-Ions Are Killed. nakei-HflcId, Oil. I.. It. Hlcke, c miner who was entombed by n cuve-In cuve-In In a tunnel of the Edison Electric Power company Dee. 7. was rescuer" nt 1:25 o'clock Saturday night. Hicks, the miner who wns rescued, was entombed nllvo under sixty feet of debris fifteen days previous, in tho tunnel of the Edison Electric Power company, seventeen miles northeast of this city. Five of his follow workers were hurled at the same time by the cave-In of thousands thou-sands of tons of earth and rock. Tho work of lecovcrlng the bodies wns Immediately begun nnd prose cuted with vigor, but owing to the yielding nature or tho soil, slow progress was made. Hope or rescuing any of tho victims vic-tims had been abandoned, when, (throe dnys lifter the disaster, the found or tapping on u water pipe in he shaft was hoard. Instantly a response re-sponse was sent, and tho answoring rnps plainly pttivcd that at least one of tho imprisoned miners wns alive. The water pipe was cleared and communication established through it with the man at the bottom of tho shaft. lie proved to be Hicks, a former for-mer soldier and an expert miner, whoso life had been saved by a Bteel car under which he was pinned. Ills five companions were dead. |