The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-20
 MANY WEEKS Miraculous Escape of
 Miners.
 ---->- ONE WANTED To4Ascoo FIRST Eells Aans Gut Rdo.eines of Cad
 teople.
 - After Two Days Work sad wstehiss, the strain Is Broken as Men Emerge From the Mins
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\ Ely, New, Jan. is--After having been eulomned torty-siA uays in tne Alpna shaft or the 1irioux 4aine. A. D. nai- ley, F. I. Brown ana Fred McDonaldi nave been rescued.
 At s:SO o'clock last night, Bailey was brought out. oFurteen minutes later McDonala came 10 tne surface, Waffle ten minutes later. brown Wac prougnt up. Whistles all over the district blew loudly, white crowds cneered in tue streets of Ely and every psll in that town was ringing.
 .Ah.f' this was the first exclams ton of Bailey. when he reaches tns outer air. without another word. ne tottered forward Into the arms of comrades who stood ready 10 assist him and was led to the change room of tas Alpha shop. where Tn few minutsH he recuperated.
 By 06orge.j 1t certainly seems nne to be out of that hell hole, said Frea Mr. Donald, as he was led away, telllnk hia brother in a hIgn pitched voice oi his terrible experience. Say, soma body give me chew of tobacco. saio Brown, I'm on the bum all right
 All of the men were supremacy nap. nv News that an early escape would hs afForded the men reached Ely shorf- Iy after ii o'clock yesterday. ADous o'clock last night the fact that an entxv to the aurface of the deeEls in sh@ main way had been effected. was feienhoped to the men anxiously watt ing at the top. The entomoed men had been working several hours digging their way to freedom arv.' z ths eama time, doing all in their pow. sr so rernovathe earth that was blockins fhs mouth of the t.Q0U foot tunnel
 Aoknt SaRmml Gavem.
 srr .t,m ay, xtous crowd awaitn9 arouno .he .faft mouth, the bell signaiied' snpa two. throe--hoint away, ana up- or, releasing. . loud cheer wsnl ". soddenly the basket rose 70 tns s.s face. In 1t was one or the Ess'n~ s,. .s-en, s@ s..sss,nr as he was being han iea s1Ss s.,s earrted 10 the shaft house was atI,nt hia wife Mrs. Bailey was h1, s,, 2 -. ana of her children bekn9 IT 4 < < sse, a ufeFx9a to nsAek her aus Ss56 sx .fhsIr ncfns. where no tnsehs 5f 'csskIoas would bs present ...s.. Baiiey soon d8clhTed nlmssa -. ss,s,s cssntly restored to make k tne .I,x ..s s,sn. Sshare he went soon afterwara. sns
 lrsAS en efther side by friend, ,u. An. SSthsr shout of joy echoed when ss srss SserS.naid was brought out anu sss,vs.' ss,s- eao sl .s' I = ~a of those anxiously aWAlI- s1 so hrother and several trlenur .n
 P.ter Brown received As.har ,of the ovation from the crowa es oS December otnSsstsf;, ssf;,.,seIa Brown and baiiey sas- au {. MSs.eaisa were working In the DVs St sn,e, of tho three compartsS.M..., s....,n sta. ei@hty-five feet below tnS .,sr 1s,srface .isn' .as.a s,d i.osg feet below, the sSr s,I ss.t,n Sson enava-frs occurred at o'clocASs ASs-or, In~ n,, rshIe ,,eed to haul the cage o tsota, et .,A 1hs,sd eor1partufent or stns s' s.si' snauoed and thousands or tons ,Sso Ua tse ,.t !. sttss .ss Is sotton Of the com. An ats. ..t.s ...t ty, which the men were WorH. pn. .a. 'ta tfe pumping station. . ossLS o,ei.ntx Af eiehty-five feet. series Ut og ss.
 fiers offered the only AheAs
 cape. s.ovx of Their Entombment.
 with the falling rocks and simpsSss srs streaming down upon fnSLn. snSasra Haii sn lsn mn, fsiiing timbers knocked tne .s.S fsraeEa from the ladders, kiIIlns sMy "r, haiiey, Mcdonald Snd HIoMn managed tc reach the, the psiInaS psIaSS stood s1 the :es .ocx and @ timber that came down the the sbsft and offered them shelter tno tss
 afetv. Here for the hret day aitet tne tn
 ave in the men croucneq s ~Il,e rneks [and tsTSsls t;T,nsF. tnsy erayshi1E GDS abovs them.
 Al first 1t was thought that ali s sns ner1 had periahed, but twenty-Lous hours after the cave-In. the thFs ss.tion
 yho occupied the pumping 1 s.a1iS s,.
 naesd to mako themselves heard oy ary,is7g unon the six Inch water plpe
 1t Stretched from the pumping otns Stn. that was the means of saving the iives of the three men. when eoinIisS ss. . tion was once estat lished with tne world above and the men had meas .s Enown Ire fact that they were still alive, food and drink was immediately lowered thro,lgt the pipe. A large sup ply was sent down as it was thought that the pipe communication might pc cut off, before the rescuing party could reach the imprisoned men, but through out their weeks of imprisonment this pipe has been in daily use. A porta- lie teieph one was lowered and the men were able to talk with the people above This telephone has been In al- most constant use. friends sending to them by it the news of the outside