The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-05
ANOTHER MINE SURVIVOR
RESCUED FROM FRENCH SHI
 AFTER TWENTY-FIVE D4T

Suffered Less Than Other Men Who
 Survived the Disaster of March 10
 Near Lens--HOrse Also Found Alive
 Intense Popular Excitement Caused
 by This Additional Proof That Quick
 Rescue Work Might Have Saved Many Lives--Exasperation Against the Engineers.
 Lens, Department of the Pas-de-Ca- lais, France, April 4.--Another survivor, 1 of the mine disaster of March 10 at Courrieres was discovered this morning and brought out of the pit.
 The finding of another miner alive af- 1 ter twenty-five days entombment ! caused intense excitement. The man was found in pit of the Sallaumines vein He was in good condition. Ac- cording to his first statements, this i man, Auguste Berton, suffered less than the preceding rescued men. He is thirty-tWo years old and was born in the same place as Nemy, the leader Of the thirteen men rescued on March 30
 As the news spread through the rs- 1 zion it caused extreme exasperat.on against the engineers wha have been directing the salvage work. NJ. Leon ! the State engineer when he arrived at the pit was surrounded by a crowd of | people, who cursed and swore at him, I one woman going so far as to strike him,
 Berton was found in the following manner: One of party of salvage men was working in the mine this morning when he felt the touch of hand on his shoulder, and a man, who turned out to be Berton, said; q am saved"
 The signal was Immediately given. and Berton, covered with coal dust, was taken to the pit mouth. Doctors were summoned the wife of the rescued man was sent for, and an effecting meeting took place.
 Berton described his experience as follows:
 T was working with my cousin when an explosion occurred, and we became separated, Afterwards, alone, I grop- ed about in the darkness trying to find an outlet first found dead horse, but was unable to eat any of it's flesh. Later I found some lunch bags which had belonged to men who have been killed by the explosion, and I lived on the food I found in them. I suffered from the cold, and took clothing and shoes from the dead. I also found three watches and twenty-four sous. At one time I gave up hope and tried to commit suicide by opening a vein. I slept ten times and tried to count the days, estimating that eight days had passed since tile explosion"
 When the engineers came up from the Courrieres pits at noon to-day they were attacked by crowd of women crying Death to the murderersl" They were rescued by a squadron of dragons. The people are intensely ex- cited. They believe that there are other men alive in the mine, and serious dis orders are threatened.
 A thousand women are thronging about the pit mouth, and are forcing the barriers. The troops and gendar- mes are trying to control the situation.
 Five search parties went down this morning to explore pit four but up to 1:S0 p. m. they had not discovered any more survivors. Other parties are searching the mines, and the chief en- gineeer will remain below all night.
 The crowds several times during the day broke through the cordons of troops surrounding pit No. 4, excited | I1y questioning the salvagers who stated that no further traces of survivors had been found. Several bodies of miners