Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-20
JOY REIGNS
AT RESCUE
OF MINERS
TOWN OF ELY GOES WILD WITH
HAPPINESS
THREE MEN, BURIED OVER SIX
WEEKS, OUT AT LAST
One Asks for a Chew Of Tobacco.
Crowd Cheers as Trio Emerges
from Living Tomb-Story
Of Their Experience
sy Associated Press.

3y Associated Press.
ELY. New, Jan. 19.--After having
been entombed forty-six days in the
Alpha shaft of the Glroux mine, A. u.
Bailey, p. J. Brown and Fred McDon-
aid have been rescued.
At $50 o'clock last night Bailey was
brought out. Fourteen minutes later
Mcdonald came to the surface while
ten minutes afterwards Brown was
brought up
Whistles all over the district blew
loudly, while crowds cheered in the
streets of Ely and every bell in the
town was rung.
"Ah!" was the first exclamation of
Bailey when he reached the outer AR.
Without another word he tottered Tor
ward into the arms of comrades VINO
stood ready to assist him and was led
to the change room of the Alpha SHAFT
where in a few minutes he recuper-
ated.
us that you, Arthur queried Fred
Mcdonald as his brother stepped for
ward and embraced him, after nearly
seven long weeks of separation. by
George, it certainly seems good TO De
out of that hell hole! he SAD, as ne
too, was led away, telling his brother
in a high pitched voice of his terrible
experience,
Say, somebody give mo a chew of
tobacco. quickI'' said Brown; I'm on
the bum already"
With a happy laugh he was led off
by comrade to the change room.
All Supremacy Happy
These expressions were characteristic
of the temperaments of the rescued
men. d All were supremely happy and
relieved.
News that an early escape would be
effected by the men reached Ely short
ly after II o'clock yesterday morning
ny telephone.
About 5 O'Clock last night the fact
that an entry to the surface OF the
debris in the main way had been ef-
fected was telephoned to the men anx-
iously waitinT on top. The entombed
men had been working several hours
in digging the.I way to freedom from
the 1000-foot level.
The rescuers at the same time were
doing all in their power to remove the
earth that was blocking the mouth of
she 1000-foot level.
TO the anxious crowd waiting around
the shaft mouth the bell signaled "one'
two, three" (noist away, and upon
realization of this fact loud cheer
burst forth from the throng.
Suddenly the bucket rose to the sur
face. III it was one of the rescue party
supporting Bailey. His first coherent
question, as he was being half led
half carried, t. the shaft house, was
about his wife.
Wife Not Present
Mrs. BaiIe-- was not present, one OF
her children being i'll. and she preferred
TO meet her husband at their home.
where no throng of curious ones would
be watching.
Bailey soon declared himself suf-
ficiently rested to make the trip, and
went home soon afterward, supported
on each side by a friend.
Another shout of joy echoed when
Fred Mcdonald was brought out and
given to the care of those anxiously
waiting, a brother and several friends.
Pete Brown received as great an
ovation from the crowd as either Of the
others.
On the morning of December Nc
Donald, Brown, Bailey and two Greeks
were working in the bottom of the
third compartment shaft. elghty-five
feet below the pump station and 1888
feet below the surface, when cave-ln
occurred.
Tho cable used to haul the cage in
the third compartment to the shatt
snapped and thousands of tons of rock
debris and tip1bers fell down into tho
shaft.
vnent in which the men were working
to the pump station, a distance of
eighty-five feet, a series Of rickety lad
sers offered the only means OF escape.
With falling rocks and timbers stream
ing down upon them, the FIVE men
struggled up these ladders.
Two Were Killed
Half way up falling timbers knocked
the two Greeks from the ladders, Kill
ing them. Bailey, Mcdonald and
Brown managed to reach the pump
station.
The well timbered roof had with
stood the rock and timber that came
down the shaft and offered them shell
ter and safety.
Here for the first day after the cave
in the men crouched, while at intervals
they could hear the rocks and timbers
crashing above them.
At first II was thought that all OF
the men had perished, but twenty-foui
hours after the cavern the three mer
who reached the pumping house man
aged to make themselves heard by tap
ping on the six-inch water pipe thai
stretched from the pumping station T.
the surface. It was this pipe that was
the means of saving the lives of the
three men.
When communication was once es
fabiShed Win the WoElu dDpFe' am
The men made known the fact tina
they were still alive, food and drini
were Immediately lowered through th'
pipe.
A large supply was sent down, as i
was thought possible that the pip'
communication might be cut off be
lore the rescuing party could rearl
the imprisoned men. but Throughout
their ')ns weeks of imprisonment THU
nina hng h1 in daily Use.
A portable telephone was lCw~reC
and ths men were able to talk witt
The people above.
This slsphone line has been -ncs
in constant use, e tnds sending them
by its VA%sns. the news of tn. oufsid'
world and ines ees of cheer.
STEAMER klLBURN DELAYED
BY ACCIDENT TO BOILERS