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Show Many Miners Freed from Danger j Henryctta. OMa Ail of the twenty- J thre miners trapped by water In ths old Wise mine near here were r scue-1 Thursday. Those in rh.irgo of the rv . cue work said that nil the nu-u had been accounted for unj that not a one ; was hurt. The men were brought to tlio (eirfarp nf:er being trapped nioro than eight hours n!::ety fve f,.( h.dnw , the level of the cronnd. The mine was flooded when h'gh w.Vcr of Coal creek ' poured l:i!o nn old abandoned sh-ft. ' driving the miners to a hip h lev.l some three fourths of a milo from tht : entrance. Itescue was brought i.boM through vigorous pumping, which; lowered tlio water to a point where the , men conhl be rearbi throin:h the' shaft. Communication h id be-n nvi!;i- , talned thronrhout the day through a two-iiuh cable hole. j |