The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1879-04-29
THIRD EDITION
RESTORED TO LIFE.
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All of the Entombed MI
ners Safely Rescued.
Six Days and NiqhIs Under Ground.
HEROIC EXPORTS OF THE VIOLIN
TIERS To SAVE THEIR
COMRADES.

the QnOQWav. at NO. ~ Stops, ucaT tHiS
city, since Wednesday morning on last
week, were rescued at 8 o'clock this
morning. They are all alive and in very
good health, but were, OF course, very
much exhausted for want of food when
reached by the rescung party. There
Is great rejoicing over their release, as II
was generally feared that they could not
survive an imprisonment oil ilve days ana
nights in the gangway.
w,. ,c,n. r,,,onhc., Minors
-.
The Herald reporter Iouhu Wiiam
kenney at his home III sugar Notch AT
late hour, surrounded by numerous
crowd OF sympathetic associates. lie was
In good spirits generally, notwithstanding
gripping pain he complained OF, conse-
quent upon too much Indulgence In
good supper. lie was tie uriver 10y
whom Dennis Gallagher, the last miner
who left the mine, had warned 10 leave
the mine. lie relates the story as ioi-
lows:
AS was coming ont a'ohS tne lower
Ievel gangway, ABOUT o" yafus from Inc
facing where the men were urisnhg Win
SIX loaded cars, was stoppeu ny Martnh
Lee ana rat Devany, VINO nau gone OUT
10 clear the track OF laii thas nau DC
CURED before. inns was ABOUT Two o.
CLOCK "Wednesday morning. l went
ahead and saw that the track was oostruc-
ted by about twenty carloads OF roohng'
walked Dack ana met Dehh's uaiia2her
ana Bill heece ana aiio,het man. ua,-
iagner toid the doorteiiuer 70 run .oack
and tell the gangway men 10 come out,
that the mine was caving ill.," told the
their nravers that n ev were all o one nm.
srI... s-,,..,s',ad - on1 I hove No.
hoy "lsnoeu .' anu
se"eu "o'se ein,e' t"'iN" "a" -, az
LOOK theImule where IL was soma. Iheh
went back to where we kept our dinner
pals, someway ont of the gangway. The
men lme I'M TO me We agreed that
weed batter hurry nm and oct ont. and
20 ,n.do hasta and ran Willie we were
.;... Nv ~ !, 80 g. lii,
"s w" a'u ."e 'i'i" ""' 'ai
oeiore us anu oetlnu us, 50 W" turheo
back. one sad, "What are we going 10
dOw
One OF the Green boys SAID there must
pe an opening ON Ine pa'h prancn, ant,
we started Tor that place. we found
that that was full and we retraced our
steps back to the main gangway and
tried to root our way through the fall.
W. booLad our wav tbrourh that ahout
fifteen wards and gave II IN. Little
pieces were falling all around us. Then
Nod pricn boilored out ia no IN M and
Iii ,bo ,nu,o
NO LAUGHING.
UYou had Ia laugb NJ mat didn,t vouoi
"There was no lauphina then. / tell
you. Then me and Johnny Green and
Charley hawkins and Johnny Clark
went to kill the mule while Barney Riley
Edward PRICE and Pat Green went for
OIL. John Green struck the mule with a
hammer, and cut his head off with an
axe. Then we cut leg oil and cut out a
piece ana irled IT. 1t was savory that
way, and so we boiled piece. We ate
u with Roou renSh. W nile we we're eat
ing we prayed TO dod that we might get
out. Then we went on back bench and
laid down on an old door We had a lit
tie camp meeting there We first tried
to fry with one lamp, bnt that wouldn't
go, 30 we started fire with n very little
wood, for fear that 1t would injure the
men that might be trying to get us out.
PRAYERS AyswFhKn
an. rr.,u.,,...
su"s Just ai'er we had eaten
' NJ NJ. anu nan an uec-areu
wa. So 49,, - II IA a.aWel 10 our pray
To hea fhot Bfta. Ihen we
u o'nel so,ii'iS' anu we someuines
snous .;. ~ was i,en wotkIhe LOT ny, ana
more e'mes we lhouehl IL was the fall OF
nc rooI, anu we al eot Gown and prayed
Ina. , =. "as the le'c"iug men. Charley
nav nus sing soille hymns Again we
"aon, 40 - h', I ~, way snro.Rt Tue Iowei