The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1906-04-06
ATE PUTRID HORSE MEAT
Thirteen Miners, Entombed 20
Days, Rescued Alive.
Lived on Earth and Putrid Horse Meat
in Darkness and Stencil from
Many Decaying COrpses.

IcuITeu, Killing over tnOuSant
miners. The story is as follows
Lens, France, March 30.-Tht
disaster at the Courrier's Goa
Mines had startling sequel to-
day when thirteen miners were
taken out alive after having en-.
dured unspeakable horrors during
twenty days of entombment,
The story of the survivors, SO far
as IL has been told, disclosed that
they lived for many days on pu-
trid horse meat amid total dark
ness and In the stencil from scores
of decaying. corpses. The pres
ence of human flesh would speed
lily have forced the starving men
to resort to the last desperate ex-
tremity if they had not been res
cued.
The survivors were sturdy
young miners from Il to % years
old except their leader, Henri
Nemy, who is 3S years old. All
show the terrible effects of their
experiences, being emaciated, ex-
hausted and blinded. Their res
cue caused temporary nervous
lucidity, during which they
greeted their relatives and graph
lcally related their sufferings.
The doctors forced quiet upon
them fearing the result of fever
and poisoning from their having
eaten decayed horse flesh.
The survivors brought up por-
lions of the decomposed horse
flesh.
Nemy, who was the most lucid
Of the miners who escaped, graph
Ically described their imprison-
ment rs follows:
"After the explosion 1 CROPPED
my way about, stumbling over
bodies and seeking refuge from
The gases. found some COM
,ades sheltered in a remote niche.
We ate earth and bark for eight
lays then the provisions gave out.
eve continued to grope among
The bodies seeking for an outlet |
rom our prison, but we were
orced back time and again. We
'ound some hay which we ate and |
wo days after we found a dead
lorse, which we cut up and ate
With the hay and bark. We
most for tho want of |
water. Finally we became des-
,erate and separated into three
PARTIES and communicated with
ZACH other by shouts.
"Last night we felt a draft of
resh air which finally guided us
o an opening"
A survivor named Martin said: !
We suffered intensely from cold.
The chamber above us was burn
ng. but it did not temper the
old in the lower gallery
Another rescued man, Lefevre,
vhen asked if he had slept. re-
lied: 1--WE never closed our
yes. Some times we dozed, but
lemy, who took command, would
lot permit US to Sleep"
Nemy displayed his watch he
lad wound up reuglarly through
tut Imprisonment.
There were touching scenes as
wives and mothers greeted those
whom they had long given up as
cad. Crowds besieged the hos
'itals to which the men were
AIKEN, cheering the survivors and
mprecating the ineffective nature
f the salvage work that fol-
owed Immediately after the dis
ster.
The rescue of these thirteen
len revived the hope in many
antilles that others are alive and
be relatives of those whose
odies have not been recovered
Iamorously demand that efforts
Q redoubled to bring out any
ossible survivors.
There is a report that In addition
, the thirteen men who were
rought up out of the mine to-
Nv there were five others who