The Ordway new era., 1908-01-24
Jed FROM
|v|NG TOMB
BvADA MINERS ARE
Mt TO THE SURFACE
EUNHARMEo.
|foRTY.sIx DAYS
1PRisoNED MORE THAN
THOUSAND FEET UN-
DER GROUND.

AFTER having been en-
1ty-six days in the Alpha
Ae Giroux mine. A. ID. Bailey.
IN and Fred Mcdonald have
ned. At $50 Saturday night
brought out. Fourteen min
Mcdonald came to the sur
he ten minutes afterward
rs brought up.
6s all over the district blew
<vhile crowds cheered in the
Ely. while every bell in the
ringing.
b o'clock the fact that an en-
surface of the debris in the
had been effected was tele-
10 the men anxiously waiting
The entombed men had been
beveral hours in digging their
Freedom from the 1.000.foot
rescuers at the same time do
their power to remove the
ID was blocking the mouth OF
Lfoot tunnel.
anxious crowd waiting around
mouth the bell signalled
70. three, hoist away and
blization OF this fact, n loud
nrst from the throng. Sud
e bucket rose to the surface.
one OF the rescue party sup
Bailey.
|rst coherent question as he
hg half led. half carried to the
use was about his wife.
Bailey was not present, one OF
1dren being III. and she pre-
% meet her husband at their
shere no throng OF curious pco-
ID be watching. Bailey soon de-
himself sufficiently rested to
he trip. where he went soon
ID, supported on either side by
Asr shout OF Joy echoed when
IcDonald was brought out and
b the care OF those anxiously
brother and several friends.
Brown received as great an
From the crowd as either OF the
be morning OF December 4th,
Ald. Brown and Bailey and two
were working in the bottom OF
zee compartment shaft. eighty
h below the pump station and
eet below the surface. The
occurred at . O'Clock. The
lsed to haul the cage from the
compartment OF the shaft
d and thousands of tons of
debris and timbers fell down
le shaft. From the bottom OF
in which the men
'orking to the pumping station,
nee Of eighty five feet. n series
,ety ladders offered the only
of escape.
falling rocks and timbers
Ing down upon them. the five
ruggled up these ladders. Half
p falling timbers knocked the
reeks from the ladder. killing
Bailey, Mcdonald and Brown
ed to reach the pump station.
we'll timbered room withstood
TX and timber that came down
IT. and offered them shelter and
Here for the first day after
vein the men crouchcd, while
rvals they could hear the rocks
nbers crashing above them.
rst 1t was thought that all the
ad perished. but twenty-four
liter the cave-in the three men
:cupied the pumping station
ID to make themselves heard by
upon the six.inch water pipe
retched from the pumping sta
the surface.
8 this pipe that was the means
ne the lives Of the men. When
nication was once established
le world above and the men
;nown the fact that they were
I've, food and water were low
rough the pipe. A large sup
sent down, rs 1t was thought
3 that the pipe communication
be cut off before the rescuing
ould reach the imprisoned men,
oughout their long weeks of i'm
lent this pipe has been in daily
portable telephone was low
Id the men were able to talk
e people above. This telephone
an in almost constant use,
sending them by It's means the
I the outside world and mes
I cheer.
work Of rescue was most peril
the men who were engaged in
pick Of the best miners and
men In the camp, worked in
# shifts. There was constan,
that the loose mass through
.tey were working would give
d each man worked with a
'out his waist, 30 that II sud-
eprived Of footing they would
but could reach the cage and
vn up.