Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-01-20
MINERS ARE RESCUED.
Ely Workers Taken Out After
 Seven Weeks In Deep Shaft.
WHOLE TOWN WILD WITH JOY
Liberation of Men Signalized by tho Blowing of Whistles-Two Are Weak, but the Third Asks For a Chow of Tobacco.

Blowing of WhIstles-TWo Are Weak,
 but the Third Asks For a Chow of Tobacco.
 Ely, New, Jan. 20-Snatched from a tomb so far below the earth's surface
 few men would brave it under the best
 of conditions, the three miners impris-
 oned there for seven weeks returned
 to the world of the living It was a real resurrection to them, for many times in the course of their long stay
 1000 feet underground they had given
 themselves up as practically dead. It seemed impossible, they said, that their comrades could remove enough of the wreckage that tumbled down the Alpha shaft of the Giroux mine on Dec to reach them without shak- ing death down upon them. Yet the men, A. D. Bailey, Frederick McDon- aid and P. J. Brown, kept up their spirits most of the time, and when at last they got to the surface once more they seemed to have suffered much less than had been feared But their condition was bad enough, and whether they could have lived there many more weeks is wide open question.
 Almost everybody in this town was about the mouth of the shaft for hours before the men were taken out. Towns folk began streaming to the mine as nif fn int hot rescue was imminent was circulated. All through the afternoon and evening women and children as we'll as men stood waiting for what to many of them approached a miracle. Every relative of the entombed men was on hand save one of Bailey's children, who was i'll. Mrs Bailey had to stay home to nurse the child
 It was with mighty shout of well come that the crowd greeted Bailey. The unaccustomed sound startled him. and he staggered. He recovered him self in an instant and stood blinking at the cheering throng. Then he mur- mured, "Ah" and almost fell to the ground. Comrades caught him in their arms and carried him through the press of applauding friends to the change room, where he was made to lie down and to take little hot soup. Neither he nor his companions in dan. ger had been menaced by starvation, for food and drink had been lowered to them through the six inch pipe by means of which they made known the fact that they were ali'e. But the hot soup was more than welcome.
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 Screaming of whistles sounded above the cheers of the throng to herald the tidiIgs that one of the mines captives was in the land of live men again. The whistles were screeching their loudest when Mcdonald appeared. Like Bailey. Mcdonald was weak in the legs. but he kept his footing little better than had the first man. His brother rushed toward him and flung pair of stall wart arms about him, lifting him fair ly off his feet. Mcdonald. when he was set down, looked at his brother questloningly. as if seeking to assure himself of the mans identity.
 ''Is that you, Arthur" he said. after a pause. By George" he added. it certainly seems good to he out of that hole!' Then he. too. was taken to the l change room.
 Brown was the coolest of the three. | He winked at q friend as his head ap- | peared above the shaft. and when he was on the top of the world once more l he shook hands warmly with several | All that time the cheering and steam whistling were tumultuous l Women and men joined hands and 1 danced in delight. Children clasped | the legs of the rescued miners until pushed away by those who saw how weak the survivors of December's ac- cident were There was so much emo ton tint it might have carried the crowd into hysteria had not Brown added the saving touch of humor
 Somebody give me chew of tObac- CO., he said. as lie started toward the change room. Instantly a dozen plugs were thrust at him. He bit on a corner. grinned. waved his hand to the crowd and went in for rest
 The shaft caved in when Bailey. Me Donald. Brown and two Greeks were :. .OSJ feet below ground Falling tim Ders killed the Greeks as they climbed ,razy ladders in an effort to escape put the three Americans made the trip ,f eighty-five feet to the pumphouse on he 1.OOO foot level. It rained rocks md timbers for twenty-fOur hours. Then. when everybody above ground bought all i've of the men were dead. he imprisoned miners rapped on the ron pipe and the rescue work was Jegun that ended in victory for the ,atience and pluck of man.