The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-05-15

this county and in Europe the whole thrg being isy
settled and only waiting the adjustment OF pecunSry
gursted.
Four Men Buried Alive.
PARTICULARS OF The RESCUE GREAT EXCITEMENT
IN THE AUsKINaUh VALLEY.
Prom the Columbus, OHIO, Statesman, May III
have just returned from flying trip to the Muslin
gum gun valley and vi. CIV. Ou an account Of the burial u.
over fortnight shut up in Of the Blue Rock hills
The rescue accomplished ct O'Clock yesterday
shut in took place two weeks ago last Friday, At
about eleven O'Clock In the morning The men had gone
that they have been shut out from light and pure d. for
nearly fifteen days. They had only one dinner and 1t or
being shut up found the dinner Of another man. who
had with sixteen Others ct great risk barely escaped
the catastrophe 1t is not true that they lived on the
lamp oil. They had but little of II. One Of the men
swallowed of the oil to relieve his throat which had
become very from drinking the oopperas water So
that the marvel remains of four persons rescued after
two weeks deprivation Of TODD and good air and not In
very bad condition either, considering.
The excitme1t conrequsnt this affair has been 1T
is y Ths,s IL. s Sssn San vs
most intense agony OF excitement On Sunday last there
farm house along the road eager enquiries are put to
every returning vistsr and Zanssze has been in In
vibration between fear and hope and despair and hope
has been painfully poignant and when the news arrived
yesterday that the men were indeed out and once more
The locality Of the accident is on the west side Of the
what Is called Coal run The bank IL owned by Mr.
Guthrie. The mouth OF the bank is but few feet from
me svs ana some twelve sss Above fns stage
three hundred fee. high and when the bank way,
the cavDg extended Into the hill about the dis
lance; that VIII The work OF began the
were hundred yards from sunlight in every direction.
The CT eavipg the unskful manner In which
the bank was worked. Instead Of working the vein,
which = four aud half feet ven-to the ordinary
width Of about twelve ee and leaving 1t short intervals
pillars of feet square to support the superintendent
mass Of rock and sarh-there were large rooms made
and few pillars left, aod those small that when the
crash came, which il did with report that
sounded to the like thunder II fairly pulvsrzei the
pillars and crushed into fragments the rocks above. Upon
the top Of the hill there found c-evses w5s enough
thirty feet down Perhaps these crevices supplied the
with pure ar, and thus ensbled them to support
y the sp ran
haps COMPRISING the air There WAS considerable
for the to exercise in the extent Of
the esving The persons who were thus entomoed are
named Edgn Savage, Pearson and Getwood. Pearson is
an old man and Savage boy about Is years. The old
and Pearson had mi les who were constantly present
under IN almost insane agony of mind.
The work Of rescue was herculaan work, but brav,y
undertaken and heroically consummated. II the
more Mfirult - but about eigh. men could work At
time. There were eighty men constantly laboring day
was SLOW and became slower the farther they went into
the bank that since Sabbath last not than foot
hour has been realized And this pr gress inter
which fut cut The lights.
Let it be Known tnat these heroic workmsn we're in
constant peril Of their lives in al the ortniehs work
worked in, but 1t times ths timber bent Ike reed un
der the immense pressure, and at times gave The
men from mailing themselves secure They could not
work without Eight, and when, Sunday, they had cut
in 236 feet and we're about TO despsr owing to the bad
atmosphere and the corrsels Of Who gh it too
late to save the they took vgor and ne hope,
and stprssaed until Friday when the attention Of
the knen was arrested BY knocking within They
paused and haloed again and again halioed whsn the
voice Of the entombsd was heard family in responsive
hurrsh!
The crowd without on the bank soon caught
cheering news, and Hurrah hurrsh rent the air with
su.h Joy never awoke the echoes Of that beautiful
valley before The just then most tn cilling.
How differently it affects different this rapture Of
joy Some aside in silence and tears Some laughed
Some capered and csyortsd like dan,ng Dsrvishes in
heir in.prston, II was rare scene, and no. discre
ditable TO our fallen human nature
The mex. thing in order WAS 10 hold q c'nversAion
with the en.on6ed TIE frs: ineligible question pro-
pounded by the insiders
"was anybody killed by the cavings' "Nons" sid
the workman.
"Hurrahl hurrahn was heard frera within This
jubilee Of entobed was reported outside to the
crowd vic responded to BY spon aneous hurrah Of
their
II seemed tba' the r-en had picked their way
converse pretty freely. The vogkmsn w,Ensd them TO
retire within as they we're in Imminent dagger. Sgn
Eac he wouldn't bulge TIL they Told them nat was the
day and hour, and bow long they had ben shut in.
The workmen told him that be had only been ia week
that it FridayeceviDg him, they supposed for
his gooe that Of bis companions. Etg,n then
told them to say to their families and friends, that
they DIDN'T get out they were ready to die hsfy hav
claiming to the worsmsn most cheerful,
even 60 in. Work on boys! May Go; oless you"
This dialogue new hope to the wors men, aud they
labored until the bad air put out the Zig 80 again
when the suspended or four mrs, il they
sent to Zanesvlls tor ONE hose bs!ioss sad some
pipe by which they sent resh air in and the lights we're
relur,ed, and the work until Friday nigh when
1t said they we're within twenty minute. { me res
Arrangements we're al made to receive them, and
expectation was again banked BY anobo ring in Of
the earth and rock. Friday night the .ltinusd.
Some Fix hundred people remained till on ok yes
terday morning, when the rescued .r, It out to
the crowd with their faces covered ana their very
much enaciated sId exhausted Their fami not
preent look after their well being and everything
done make Of the results of the long labor viz
the preservation OF their lives Person the older
had utterirg st the heart the others seemed to Be
"as well az could be expected Their faces were covered
to protect their eyes. The boy Savage Is said made
inquiry the first thing after tcher of tobscco' tho
rest az their fsii and friends They had taken
sleep dry cir which they had piled up for that
purpose but had idea OF the time that had elapsed
Eotwitbti landing these men were thus imoeidet 10
prevented by that very fact. In the English
mines have lived sixteen days without food
The very of light and free circu alton Of air tae
moisture of their tomb together With the lack OF
have had effect in preventing that exhaustion which
has panied hunger in the air in aid plains
the salt ocean. Bat am going out Ct my sphere.
TIRE Turf
VIRGINIA.