Rocky Ford enterprise., 1906-04-13
ANOTHER RESCUE.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FROM THE
coURRiEREs MINE.
lMMuReD1wENrY.FIveD DAYS
Aususte eerton Found Alive In tho
Pit and Brought Out to Greet His
Wife a. Ono Arisen From the Dead.


Lens. France.-Another living sur
vivor OF the mine disaster at Cour-
rieres March 10th. was discovered this
wednesday, morning and brought out
Of the pit.
The man was found In pit four. OF
the Sallau mine. He was In good con-
dition. According to his first state
ments. this man. Auguste Berton. suf'
fered less than tho preceding rescued
men.
One OF a party OF salvage men was
working In the mine this morning
when he felt the touch OF hand on his
shoulder. and n man who turned out To
be Berton. said:
Il am saved"
An affecting meeting occurred be-
tween Berton and his wife. Berton.
who was covered with n layer OF coal
dust. described his experience Us fol-
lows:
when an explosion occurred. and we
I gropcd about In the darkness. trying
To ind an outlet. l first found dead
horse. but was unable TO eat any of Its
flesh.
Later I found some lunch bags
which had belonged To men who had
been killed by the explosion. and ]
lived on the food ! found In them. !
suffered from the cold and took cloth
Ing and shoes from the dead. ! also
found three watches and "a sous. At
one time ] gave up hope and tried TO
commit, suicide by opening n vein. l
slept ten times and tried to count the
days. estimating that eight days had
passed sine. the explosion"
As the news spread through the re-
Iion IL caused extreme canspcrntioi
against the engineers who have been
directing the salvage work. N. Leon.
the state engineer. when lie arrived nj
the pit. was surrounded by u crowd OF
people. who cursed aud sworc ut him.
One woman went 10 FAR M to strike
the engineer.
When the engineers came up from
the Courricrcs pits ut noon today they
were attacked by "a crowd OF woiscn.
crying: Death to tho murdcr-rH'
They were rescued by n squadron OF
dragons. The people arc intensely
excited. They believed that there arc
other mon alive In the mine and SC
rious disorders are threatened.
a thousanad women arc thron.ing
about the pit mouth and are forcins
tho barriers. The troops and gen
darmcs are trying to control tho sltun'
ton.
Five search parties went down this
morning to explore pit four. but IN
to.lo:3o p. m. they had not discovered
any more survivors. Other parties are
searching tho mines and the chief en-
ginccr will remain below nil nirht.
The crowd several tines during the
day broke through the Gordon OF troops
surrounding pit No. I. cxcitcdly aucs'
tioning the salvagcrs. who stated that
no further traces of survivors had
been found.
Several bodies OF miners. with the
appearance of not having been long
dead and living horse were discov'
cred. The latter was In good condi
ton. The crowds dispersed ut mid.
night except for few women. who re-
fused to leave tho vicinity Of tho pit
head.
In pursuance of Premier Sarricn'a
instructions. n judicial inquiry was be.
gun against the state engineers. who.
II is allie gcd, took over tho Hupcrin'
tcndcnec Of the salvage work from
the company's engineers. Should this
examination establish lack Of celcr.
ity. neglect OF duty or incapacity on
the part of the state engineers. prose.
cution will cnsuc on the charge OF In.
voluntary homicide. the penalty OF
which may be two years imprison.
mcnt.