The Sentinel=record., 1909-11-21

A"Nf Nn~int thfoNih6 Vui ot ubS dt0uiiu their neclSs and almost lifting them flom their feet. Their joy was mex. pressible. They pounded us on our backs and continued to laugh and cry aloud until the whole place reverber- ated with the cheering.
 We wanted to carry the men to the hoisting shaft in our arms, but they insisted they were strong enough to walk out themselves The only trou- ble was they were practically blind by the night We ithrew blankets over their heads and started.
 My first concern was to get after the poor little Frenchman who was reported dying. I found him on his back breathing his last. Holding a torch over his face, which was black with soot said:
 Do you give your soul to God?
 He answered.: Yes; am afraid will never get up alive.
 mat WdS UT iut. tuluiulSttr uuS last sacrament, and in a minute he was dead
 T then joined the others and walk ed toward the shaft. There occurred then one of the greatest acts of hero ism 1 have ever heard or read of. It can hardly be believed.
 Walter Waite. one of the men res cued, on hearing that there were oth- CTS alive in the mine, threw of the blanket with which we had covered his head, and shouted:
 We'll. then, by God; am not go' ing out of here until get the others.
 We remonstrated, saying that for him to remain down there any longer would mean his death.
 "'We will take you up to the fresh air and give you some nice warm food and then maybe we will let you help us do the rest of the work, we said, but he protested and we actually had to use fonce to get him into the cage All the way up he shouted:
 = Let me go down and help get up the others
 "All this time those on the surface had during the last three or four days a firm conviction that everybody in the mine was dead, Nobody conceiv- eG of any other possibility. It was a great joy to cry mp the shaft:
 We've got some men alive. Hoist her up quick
 Up we went like a shot and raced the men into a Pullman car nearby"
 William Cleland, one of the sur survivors, after drinking a bowl of soup. appeared none the worse for his experience.
 We made the most of our situa. ticn,' he said, sitting in the car and surrounded by nurses.
 "As soon as We discovered fire last Saturday and that there was no hope of escape, we retreated to a safe place, where water could be found. Forum ately some of the timbers behind us burned out and this let earth and rocks fall down. cutting us off from the heat and gas. How the time went We don't know We must have been unconscious part of the time.
 "i remember soon after We were shut in of drinking great quantities of the seepage that hap drippeJ down into the gutter and eating from my lunch. After that some of us pulled of inc bark and began chewing it.
 We didn't realize how serious was ous position, in fact some the men spent the time joking and said they wished they had pack of cards. It vas after We had drank up all the water and the seepage had run dry that we began to pound on the wall to cause more to drop.
 Soon after this we heard voices and one of our men Said
 " At last they are coming after us. We could hear them digging on the other side of the rock and dirt which walled up the passage and soon lit- tie hole was seen at the top and the gleam of the torches came through.
 Our first question was Is it Sun day )r Monday?' A, matter of fact