The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-05
RE LIVED ENYOMDBD Is DAYS.
ANOTHER SURVIVOR TAKEN FROM
COURRIERES NINE.
FOund Food in Pockets OF Men who Had
Been Killed by the REPRESENTATIVES,
Enraged at Carelessncss OF Rescue
Work-Liye Horse is Also Taken Out.

Found Food in Pockets or Men Who Had
Been Killed by the REPRESENTATIVES.
Enrased At CareIessncss OF Rescue
Work-Liye Horse is Also Taken Out.
Special Cabs Despatch 10 THE Sun.
LENS. France, April Another man
was brought up alive this morning from
the Courrieres mine, which was wrecked
by ar explosion Of gas on March 10. He
had been in the mine for twenty-five days.
A live horse was found this evening in
Pit No. II, adjoining Pit No. 4. This in
oreases the hope that more men are alive
in the mine.
The name Of the survivor found this
morning is Berthou. He lived on food
which he found in the pockets Of dead
companions and slaked his thirst from
puddles.
Berthou says that he suffered terribly
from the cold and that he removed the
clothing from several dead bodies and put
1t on himself. He was knocked down at
the moment Of the explosion, but on re-
covering found hat the air was breatha-
BILE. He was found behind a sort Of door
that closed one of the galleries. When he
caught sight Of the rescuers he said: Here
am"
Berthou thought hat only eight days
had passed since the explosion. Once, he
says, he contemplated suicide. His hands
were bitten by rats, which several times
attacked him when he was sleeping.
The finding of another survivor has re-
newed the fury Of the miners and the women
Of the district against the managers Of
the mine because the work of rescue was
abandoned so soon after the explosion.
There does not seem to be any doubt
that a rescue party passed Berthou yester-
day while he was asleep, One of the party
explains this by saying hat the engineer
in charge hurried them along, without
waiting to examine whether the bodies
they passed were those of live or dead
men. Berthou says that several times he
reached the shaft and endeavored to at
tract attention and that no person was
there. Now Berthou knows the reason
he could attract no attention, for the engi-
neers had blocked the shaft.
It is reported that four Of the thirteen
men who we're taken out of the mine last
week after twenty days. entombment will
probably die from the effect of the priva-
tom they suffered.
A story is told that these men were re-
duced to such extremities before their
rescue that some of them ate flesh from
the dead bodies of two apprentices.
Simon, a miners delegate, who has accom-
panied the searching parties, says that
eight or ten bodies were found Wednesday.
the victims having been dead only a few
hours
The anger Of the miners continues intense.
The women are especially fierce. The
engineers and other officials hardly dare
to show themselves.
One Of the most popular officials hitherto
had to take refuge to-day in the office
from a furious mob. the women in which
threatened to tear him in pieces. The doc
tors and priests are also objects of hatred,
they being accused Of being leagued with
the officials. Women accuse the doctors
Of descending the pit for the purpose Of
numbering survivors. Reporters are fire.
quently mobbed, and in order to escape
are compelled to prove their identity.