The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-06-16
NARROWING TALE or
AN IMPRISONED DIVER
Was Caught Under Wate-: ARD
Kept There "a Hours Fac
ing Almost Sure Death.
ON RESCUE
Was All But Unconscious and Would
Have Drowned in Another Half
Hour Owing to Leak-Re.
viewed His Past life.

Canton, Mo-, June S.-After being i'm
prisoned for t~wenty-four hours, loaded
down by u divers armor and under fif- !
teen feet of water, Daniel Hayes was
brought to the surface at 3 o'clock yes
terday afternoon in an unconscious and
almost dying condition.
He Is d professional diver and had
been employed to remove the brush
and debris from the immense pipe
which serves al times of low water to
drain Lima lake and transfer Its sur
plusage to the Mississippi river.
While at work Saturday afternoon
Hayes was sucked under the pile OF
refuse and over against a bowlder in
a way which prevented him from loos-
ening himself from the tangled hose
| which held him down.
In signaling to the men in charge Of
the air pump he could not let them
know his location, as the air hose, be-
ing wrapped o the rock, caused
deceptive bubbles to come to the sur
face.
He responded to the signals sent him
by means Of the rubber tube which
supplies him with air. The rope that
had been placed about his body seemed
to be in working order, but 1t was quite
Impossible for the men above the sur
face of the water to elevate him after
the usual manner
Major Meigs. engineer in charge OF
the river improvements, secured the
country for a diver to go to the rescue
of Hayes, but was unable to find ona
ntil today, when Eugent Farris hur-
ried to this city from Burlington.
With the aid Of the steamer Cantonia
he was able, after an hours hard labor,
to raise the imprisoned diver, who was
almost unconscious and unable to
speak.
His suit was leaking badly. and he
yr,1,lI hnpa haar I~nvyraI hn1 tho nv
deal lasted another half hour.
Restoratives were applied by a ply
sician who has been in constant at
tendance for tw~enty-four hours. After
being partially revived Hayes said that
a portion of the bank caved in under
the surface, the suction drawing him
into the big pipe he was clearing. There
was a heavy lid on the outside of the
pipe, which. closing down, held him a
captive.
The agony that he passed through
made him appear ten years older thar
when he disappeared from view.
II guess that everything I aver did,
good. bad, and Indifferent, passed
through my mind at least 1000 times"
he said.
Suffered FrishtfuI Agony.
II have had several close calls in my
time, but never before nave I been up
against what has seemed to me like all
most certain Heath I could not under
stand why they did not send some one
down for me. not knowing, of !.
that the air hose diverted the bubbles
and made 1t impossible for them to
locate me.
Every minute of the twenty-four
hours I have been imprisoned I thought
the air would stop coming to me, and
then, Of course, the end was not far
off To say that / suffered the agonfes
of one condemned to eternal torment
is about as near as I can come to say
ing how I felt while fastened in what
I thought was a living tomb"
Hayes is the diver who three years
ago was caught under the Flying Es- le
near Hannibal, Mo-, and held for thir-
ty-six hours.
One of Hayes hands is badly swollen
and his legs were terribly lacerated
above the knees. where the big iron
door pinched him. Physicians say,
however. that he will recover and be
able to be around in three weeks. He
says that he will never dive again.