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Show MINER IMPRISONED SINCE FRIDAY, ALIVE AND IN GOOD SPIRITS Receives Food and Talks With Rescuers Res-cuers Through Tube Fifty Feet Long Centralla, Pa., Sept. 30. As darkness dark-ness enveloped tho Continental col- , llery of tho Lehigh Coal company tonight, to-night, tho voice of Thomas Toshesky who has been entombed In tho mammoth mam-moth vein slnco last Friday morning, wns heard through a tubo fifty feet long, which had been Inserted In a hole bored through n wall of coal from un adjoining gallery. Ills first inquiry was about his family. "Tell them not to worry loo much" ho said, "ns I am In fitlrly good condition. con-dition. Slnco 1 got several bottles of milk and whipped eggs 1 feel much stronger nnd moro content. I had a long sleep after satisfying my hunger nnd thirst nnd feel curtnln I will bo rescued boforo another foil of top rock nnd coal can occur." The. entombed man sold ho whs very nervous becouso of tho long confinement con-finement nnd nbsoluto qulot. "sometimes," ho sold, "I Imagine the wholo roof of tho brenst Is about to drop on my head.' j Mine officials with the rescuers told , Toshesky to keep up courage, us ,t I probably would be another twelve 1 hours until n big pllo of coal lying , in the fnce of tho gangway could bo remoed sufficiently to permit numbers num-bers of the rescuing party to enter I tho working where ho Is held prls-j prls-j oner. |
