Show 9 FROM MINE AFTER BEING imprisoned SEVEN DAYS IN BURNING MINE TWENTY MEN SAVED fought Apparel apparently itly hopeless battle against death eating bark from timbers and leath leather er from their caps to sustain life cherry ils ills hoping against hope and fighting against aga hist the terrible nt and gases in the blazing coal mine rescuers in search of 0 bodies came upon twenty men who still cling to life on saturday and the men were brought to the top all uro on the ike road to recovery alter after P narrowing ex per peri lence ence which benns almost beyond belief alter after seven lays days and nights of 0 cou nj nt in the mine in which bun dreda 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 hid bee been n located it took six hours to bring thra to the surface and when the cage came up with the men aboard almost every human being in the little town wa was present there were many dramatic scenes enacted unbounded joy upon the part of the families of th thi rescued men while others who had hope hoped that their loved ones were among those that had hid been spared turned away in bitter heartbreaking disappointment one of the men rescued gays says at one 0 clock last saturday the pit boss bass came to measure my work after he went I 1 waited for the team to come foe for the coal but in two hours it had not come so I 1 started to find bad out what was the matter pretty eoon soon I 1 saw smoke and I 1 felt that the ventilation fan had bad stopped the fire had been burning tor for an hour but thit as the first I 1 knew anew of it 1 I I started to run then but met george eddy and some others about 21 in all and mr ir edd led us way back where I 1 had been working then we me tried to throw up a barrier but it was mas pitch dark and we did not ge go along well all the time we breathed bad gas I 1 bad nothing to eat of my own but I 1 chewed bark and drank water later we even ate the leather from our caps we got the water by makini little holes in the bottom of the entry we mado made five ot of these holes and there wag was always some one at them at first he eald said the men fang tang told stories and hoped for res re cue bualat the last all hope had been abandoned and the men were too weak to sing or talk twenty saved 92 known dead and missing la Is now the record at the st paul mine there Is still hope ot of other others being rescued alive anve |