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Show RESCUED FROM LIVING TOMB AFTER FORTY-SIX DAYS Three Miners Who Were Held Prls-oners Prls-oners by Mine Accident Little Wrse for Experience. Ely, Nev. After having been entombed en-tombed forty-six days in tno Alpha shaft of tho Glroux mine, A. D. Bailey, P. J. Brown and Fred McDonald havo been rescued. At 8:30 o'clock Sunday night Balloy was brought out. Fourteen minutes Inter McDonald camo to the Biirfnce, ?vhllo ten minutes afterwards Brown was brought up. Whistles nil ovor tho district blow loudly, whllo crowds encored In tho streets of Ely and overy boll In tho town was ringing. On tho morning of December 4 McDonald, Mc-Donald, Brown and Bnlley nnd two Greeks wero working In tho bottom of tho third compartment shaft, eighty-five feet below the pump station sta-tion and 1,085 feet below tho surface. Tho cave-In occurred nt 9 o'clock. Tho cable used to haul tho cago from tho third compartment to tho shaft snapped and thousands of tons of rock, debris nnd timbers fell down Into tho shnft. From tho bottom of tho compartment In which tho men wero working to tho pumping station, a dlstanco of elghty-llvo feet, a series of rlckoty ladders offered tho only means of escape. With falling rocks and timbers streaming down upon them tho flvo struggled up these ladders. Half way up falling timbers knocked tho tWo Greeks from tho ladder, killing) thom. Bnlley, McDonald and Brown mannged to reach tho pump station. Its well timbered roof hnd withstood tho rock and timber that camo down tho shaft and offered thom shelter nnd safety. Hero for tho first day nftor tho cave-In cave-In tho men crouched, while nt Intervals Inter-vals they could hear tho rocks and timbers crashing nbovo thom. At first It was thought that all tho men hnd perished, but twenty-four hours aftor tho cave-In the threo men who occupied tho pumping station managed to mako themselves heard by tapping upon tho six-inch wntcr plpo that stretched from tho pumping station to tho surface. It was this plpo that was tho means of saving tho lives ot fho threo men. When communication was onco established es-tablished with tho world above and tho men had mado known tho fact that they wcro still allvo, food and drink wcro immediately lowered through the plpo. ho men wero thus kept supplied with food and drink until un-til their rescuers wero nblo to dig them out. |