The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1882-06-10
THE ALTA MINERS RESCUED.
How They Endured Their Long Con-
msnt-lngsniOus Means devised 20
Rescue Them.

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Rescue Them.
A Virginia dispatch Of the Sd says :
TO the imprisoned miners vas Jack
Van Duzen. He had ou an apparatus
consisting OF box containing pound
Ell ice, which rested on his back, and
from which was rubber pipe leading
to mask hich covered his face, the
air passing through the Ice to the
mask. lie found the seven men all
right, though weak. They were in
the cooling rooul, about 100 feet from
the face of the drift. They had broken
the compressed AIR pipe mitn rick
and turned the end into the cooling
house. when their Ice water gave out
they poured hot water from the drift
into the barrel, then twisted the end
OF the compressed air pipe down into
the barrel and let it exhaust In the
water, thus cooling 1t, while they
stood about the harlel breathing the
air that came up through The water.
When they found Van DuZen had ice
in the box on his back, they pulled
open the slide and began eaIng
Jumps oil ice. One Of them told the
others that they must not eat the Ice,
as Van Duzen nad yet to 90 out. But
they had devoured the greater part of
II, and IL VAS the lacN OF ies tnat
eau led Van Duzen TO faint gong out,
there being belt OF ioul AR 300 f.,
wide To pass through. Van Duztn
To "a the men he woald inform their
families OF their safety, and assured
them that all possible eXertion was
being made to get them out. Tney
had "a light and seemed ofgood cheer.
At first this story MAS Thought 10 be "A
delirious fancy OF Van Duzen, but TO-
night six men pene rated The COOLING
room, carrying IN Ice and water, also
some milk punch. The physicians
had thought that the men should
have nourishinent before any attempt
Vas made To bring them to The sur
face. The six men who went in We're
in "A worse condition when they ar
rived at the cooling-house than those
they found there. The latter tried 10
persuade the six Lew arri al, not to
atteInp pl 10 60 back, but they thought
II necess ssary in order 10 reassure those
outside. The imprisoned men said
they saw lights out IN the drift this
morning. and asked who had tried to
come TO them. These were the lights
OF Bennett and Callahan, tne Two men
who lost their lives about . O'Clock.
Tine, got the bodies of these two out.
one shift could only endure foul air
long enough To carry IA body hall Nay.
then another shift Went III and
brought IL the remainder OF the way.
one body was found 400 feet from the
shaft aud the other 800. AT this time
they have got the large air pipe re-
pared so ii carries AIR back 10 the
end OF the drift, and they nope To he
able to bring the seven men out IN
two or three hours. III y have sent
to superintendent Mckenzie FOR Il
fresh gang of men, all at the mine
beng exhausted. The Mater, at last
accounts, wis four feet on the station,
it ha wing risen foot on account of
taking oil one tank, which WAS done
for the purpose ofputting on the cage
A bout midnight all the men IN the
Alta were removed from the drih.
Whistles all along tue lose are squeal-
ing in honor OF the event. The bodies
OF Bennett and Callahan, who peris =
ed in attemptingto to rescue the men by
the Doat, have been recovered.