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Show the impulse of a single brain. Progress was slow, but there were no more retreats. re-treats. Daylight finally bur6t into tho tunnel prison through a meagre opening. open-ing. Fearful of delay, ihe commanding command-ing officer told the Petersons to stick Ibelr feet out. Muddy boots appeared appear-ed in the" opening and in a moment Peterson was boing brushed and hugged hug-ged by his friends. Jeiry, who wn icscued in. the same manner. Insisted on walking to the wagon, although ho did not refuse a friendly arm. 'It seems good to bo out," he said. m p 1 mm Skill of Newbouse Chief Engineer Johnson Brings Hope and Safety. ?alt Lake City, March 10. After enduring en-during the horrors of an underground prison with death at their elbows for 60 hour6, George and Jerry Peterson were dragged through an 18 Inch hole to freedom and safety at C o'clock tonight. to-night. A crowd of 100 people, including tho wives and neighbors of the imperilled men, sighed with relief or wept with Joy as they were blindfolded, wrapped in blankets, refreshed with hot coffee and bundled Into a wagon to bo taken home." On Monday afternoon, the roof of the drain tunnel on the St. Patrick property, four miles east of Murray, gave way and a large mass of earth blocked the passage 1H0 feet from its mouth. The Petersons were on the wrong side of the cave. Warned" by previous experience, they had equipped equip-ped themselves with a long iron pipe two inches in diameter, which they kept ever at hand. They now drove this slender tube through the debris to secure ventilation and undertook to burrow out. Their digging was worse than useless, use-less, for the loosened earth ran down faster than they could remove it. At tupper time, the were m,lssod by their families and thtir predicament was soon learned. ..- Ranchmen by the score and a Tew practical miners formed a relief party, which set to work and labored heroically heroic-ally night and day in the dangerous ground. Hope grev.hiFb.as I be barricade barri-cade was reduced to a few feet, only to vanish as fresh masses of shalo rumbled down from the insecure roof. The prisoners, although supplied with air through the providential pipe, were weak from hunger, chilled by the water which rose to their knees and terrified by boulders which, falling further back in the tunnel, threatened them with instant burial under fresh ave6. When this morning alter tho rescuers had removed but two or three feet of the obstruction they were driven driv-en back 15 feet by a new earthfall, tne Peterson urotners rolt tbe hope go out "of their hearts ajid waited stolidly for death. But in the meantime the word of their peril had passed throughout the valley, the cities and to the mining districts of the state. It brought among others, M. M. Johntou. tho chief engineers of the Xewhouse mlu-ing mlu-ing staff. In his speedy automobile. "Within half au hour, the skill that has made Mr. Johnson, chief of vast mining enterprises was In the services of the humble and despairing miners who tdilvered In the darkness of te St, Patrick tunnel. Mr. Johnson called for timbers real timbers not tho sticks that had heen gathered on the hillside, and galloping teams brought them from the town of Murray, four miles away. "Put this in there," commanded the new chief. Timber atter timber was set into place as if iutended to stand for all time, as dozens of hands responded to |