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Show TIO MEN ENTOMBED il ALIVE IN A UTAH MINE it bW Prisoners Were Threatened With Death From Three Sources, Star- H vatlon, Suffocation and H Drowning. ' H Hi Salt Lako City Gcorgo and Jerry j H Peterson, brothers, who woro on- BJ, tombed In St. Patrick's mlno In . : Hughes canyon nt tho lower end of fl Big Cottonwood, as a result of a cavo- BJ In of n ttinucl of the mlno on Monday IBJ nftcrnoon, were rescued nftor flfty tBJ hours of horolo efforts upon tho part vH ot tho rescuers, j BK Tho men wero Imprisoned about 300 I Hi feet from the mouth of tho tunnel, and IH' wero threatened with death from three sides starvation, suffocation IHi and drowning. I' In a statomcnt mado by ono ot tho Bl men after being rescued, ho Bald: It . BJ was llko having been In hell for fifty BJ hours and then coming forth to bo- BJ hold the. glories of heaven. No man BJ can understand our feelings whllo in 1 BJ that placo, from which, for a tlmo, wo BJ verily belloved wo would never BJ emerge alive. It was llko a person BJ being placed In a tomb allvo and left BJ there to die, with tho exception of tho BJ tact that somo of tho bravest and H most loyal of men wero constantly BJ striving to rescuo us. Wo.novcr lost hope. Our ono thought was to got out, and wo know that soonor or lator BJ wo would. Thank God wo aro out. Not for a million dollars would wo go through such an cxperlenco again. ! BJ Both of tho Imprisoned men woro , BJ married, and their wives rcmalnod BJ constantly nt tho scene of tho accident BJ from tho moment they became awaro BJ ot tbo accldont until tho men wero BB rescued. fl |
