The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1856-05-21

itor; and Zanesyille has been in an intense

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: hops,4and despair and hope, has bee
painfally, poignant; and when, the. new
arrived Yesterday shat the men wera. il
II deed out, and once more in the. glad al
4 the whole city seemed alive with JOY an
! graduation. 7s,ef.,.,.. - .;..,. X
t 'rHE LoeALIrY Of the accident is Q Q
5 the west side Of the Muskingum. in Blu
/ township, half mile above. what is Gale
Coal run. The bank is owned by Nj
Il GUTFRlE. The mouth Of the bank is hu
d g few feet from the river aud some twelv
feet ABOVE The ordinary stage Of The river
The baak opens into hill that is som
j three hundred feet high; and .whea tn
bank gave way, the Gazing extended int
{ the hin about the same distance. so tha
wheli the work Of rescue began the meI
were huhdred yards from sunlight il
! hevery direction.
II THE CAUSE OF CAvINa was the unskil
iill manner in which the bank was worked
,tInstead Of working the vein, which wa
ia four and a half foot vein--to the ordi
= mary width Of about twelve feet, and lea.y
ing at shorE intervals pillars of ten fee
; stsquare tosupp0rt the perincumbeat mas:
iof rock and earth-there were large room:
made and few pillars LEFT and those small
so that when the crash came, which it die
lwith a. report that sounded to them like
tithdnder, it fairly pulvcrized the pillar.
4 and crashed into fra gmeGts tie rocks above.
Upon the top Of the hill there were found
cFeyices wide enongh for mans leg;
and Perceptibly extending twenty or 1hir-
ty feet down. Perhaps these crevices
! lsnPplied the men, with pure air and
thus enabled them to support. themselves
]slyith eomparitive ease. Again, the cav
ling began at The mouth and ran inwards,
shutting in, perhaps COMPRISING the air.
There was considerable room for the men
to exercise in, Notwithstanding the extent
the caving. '..o s :
The PERs6Ns who were thus entombed,
jare named EDdIS, SAVAGE, PEARSON and
GETwoop. PEEARsox is an old man and a
IESAyAdE q boy atout IS years. The old
man suffered most; the boy least from
exhaustion. EDGx ard PEARssoS had
families; who we're constantly. present
under an almost insane agony Of mind. !.
ne w5fs Of Fesssi,s svass II sheroa,eenl
work, but bfayely undettaken aud heroiicsl-
ly consqmnated! II was. the more dfdii-
cult as but about eightrmen could work
at a time. There were eighty men con
stantly laberipg, day and night, relieving
each other in gangs. Tie progress vas
Fslow, and became slower The further they
went into the bank; so that since Sabbath
Hast not more than a foot an hour has
been realized And this progress was
interrupted by the, rock filling m, il and
by ths impure air, which prt cut the lights.
% Tue RESCUE. Let it be. known that
these. heroic workman were in constant
peril of theirs lives. in all the fortnight's
work. OF course they had proppsd, / up s
with timber as they worked in; but at.
times the timber bent Ike a reed under
the inppeense pressure, and. at times, gave
way The fragpentarY condition Of the
rock. prevented the workmen from making
themselves secure. They could no, work
without light, and when, on Sunday, they
had cut in. 236 feet. and were about to
ideSSIpair, owing 70 the bad atmosphere and
che c7eunselss of some who thought it too
late to save the men--they took new Vi.
gor and new hope, ana sill pressed on un-
til Friday, when the attention ofthe work
men was. arrested by a knocking: within,
They p3lnsed, and halloed. Again. and
again hailoedl when the VOICE of the en-
tombed was heard family in 4 resi- sponSlTe
Hurrah 80
o. Tie, crowd without, on the river bank,
soon caught the cheering news: and Hqr-
lrahI, HpRRAIi!.' fept the. air with. such a,
Joy as never awoke the echoes of that
beautiful valley before. The scene was was
then most thrilling. How different it eff.
fleets, different men, this rapture Of joy
Some ran aside in silence and tears!-
Some. laughed wildly, as Inmates! Some
whooped like ,Ahorigines! Some caper-
ed and cayorted like dancing Deryishes
in their Inspiration! TWAS a rare scene
and not discreditabIe to our fallen human
nature.
- Inc next ,thlng IN order was to hold a.
conEcrsation,. with the entombed. the.
iirst intelligible question propounded by
the Insiders was: - = -, - -.
. "Was anybody killed by the caying??n
"None, said the sworkmen. g9R g3s8y7
aHnrrahl hurrah!n was heard from With
in This jubilee of the entombed was re-
ported outside to the crowd, who respond
cd to, itl,yia spontaneous hurrahl of their
own. satitsa 9ao9 cog 4a i.9 asIs zzt,
Itseemed that the men had picked their
way some. twenty feet. within the rocky
assure and were enabled to converse pret-
ty freely. Theaworkmen warned them to /
retire within, as they were in imminent dam
GER hsEpeIN said he wouldn't budge till
they told hmswhat was the day and hour.
and ahowaloRg they yghad beensshat in,ag The
workInen told him that he had, only been
IN a week; that it was Friday=-deeeivins4
hiHasas tteysapposed, for his own good
and that ofshs companions. iEDeaNithenl
toldzthem to SAY to- their families saiidi
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