Show ay iy f 1 I A I 1 A V W FRO wa INE AFTER BEING imprisoned SEV i EN DAYS I 1 IN N BURNING MINE TWENTY MEN SAVED fought apparently hopeless battle against death eating bark from timbers and leather from bleir caps to sustain life charry ills hoping against hope and fighting against the terrible heat beat and gases in the blazing coal mine rescuers in search earcil is of bodies came upon twenty men who still clung to life on saturday and the men were brought to the top all are on the road to recovery after a harrowing experience peri ence which seems almost beyond belief after seven days and nights of confinement in the mine in which hun deeds met death when fire broke out after sufferings which almost drove them to madness they are again surrounded s ur bi by their wives and children and from staring death in the face are again planning bright things tor for the future after the men had been beeh located it took six hours to bring them to the surface and when the cage came up with the men aboard almost every human being in the little town was present there were many dramatic scenes enacted enache d un unbounded bounded joy upon the part of the families of the rescued Z men while others who had hoped that their loved ones were among th those ose that had been miraculously spared turned away in bitter heartbreaking heart breaking disappointment one of the men rescued says at one last saturday the pit boss came to measure my work after he A went I 1 waited for the team to come for the coal but bp in two hours it had not come so I 1 started to find out what w hat was the matter pretty soon I 1 saw smoke and I 1 felt that the ventilation fan had stopped the fire fird had been burning for an hour but that was the first I 1 knew of it 1 I started to run then but met georg addy and some others about 21 in and mr air eddy led us way back T v e el I 1 had been working then we tried to throw up a barrier but it was pitch dark and we did not got get along well all the time we breathed had bad gas I 1 had nothing to eat of ray my own but I 1 chewed bark and drank water later we even ate the leather from our caps we got the water by making little holes in the bottom of athe the entry we made five of these holes and there was always some one at them at first he said the men sang eang songs told stories and hoped tor for rescue but at the last all hope had been abandoned and the men were too weak to sing or talk twenty saved 92 known dead and missing is now the record at the st paul mine there is still hope of others being rescued alive |