The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-21
Miners Found Alive IN the Cherry Tomb and
Brought Back to Their Families as Was
Lazarus In the Days 81 the Miracles
TRULY IT IS A WONDERFUL STORY
Alter Seven Days Of Sobs, Many Hearts Are Made
Glad BY the Return Of Loved Ones Who
Were Given Up as Dead.
.rGate city Leased wire service.l

[Gate City Leased Wire Service.l
CHERRY, H., Nov. 2O.-The st.
Paul coal mine has given up its liv
Ing.
At midnight therp had come alive
out Of the mouth OF the pit 81 men
who for a week had been given up for
dead.
At that hour upwards of 10 men
were known to be alive in the mine,
but had not yet been brought to the
surface, while 1t was reported that 80
others might have achieved the seem
ingly impossible and escaped death.
The return OF men to life one week
after their burial alive came SO sud-
denly that the whole community was
stunned. The men came to tell tales
OF hardship and privation and suffer
ing as only the pen Of Poe could
adequately describe. They told OF
fighting first against death in the
shape of fire and later against the
SLOW death Of suffocation.
seven Long Days.
For seven days they subsisted on
what little food was In their dinner
buckets and the bark on mine tim
4 bers and drank the oil from their
lamps and the seepage in the cutters
of the mines. For seven days they
watched and waited and prayed for
rescue and turned their ears to
4 sounds from the outside world that
would tell them that saviora were
near at hand.
Then when all were sinking into the
apathy OF despair and the songs they
had sung and the stories they had
told no longer served to keep their
minds OF their slowly approaching
doom. rescue came and willing hands
Z dragged them from their prison 300
feet under the earth's surface and
brought them up % home nnd friends
Wonderful story.
History has seldom recorded sc
providential rescue and rareiy has
the world witnessed such scenes as
attended the return of entombed mer
to life.
The frst news that ilen were stll
living in the mine reached the surface
at two b. m. For days the interio
Of the mine had been fiery furnace
and all hope that the men might still
be living in the subterranean tunnel
had been abandoned for days Vo
unteers had gone down to bring u
the dead and could scarcely bellev
their own senses when they foun
living men to bring up. The wv
companies of state troops that ha
beer sent by Gov Deneen to prever
disorder when dead bodies were ser
up, found 70 disorder until the liyin
appeared. Women whose husband
brothers, or sweethearts had bee
buried since the fire broke out becan
hysterical In their excitement ar
fought with the soldiers to reach u
mouth of the shaft.
The First 21.
Following are the names OF =
first 21 men taken out alive: Ge
Semich, John Semich, Frank Whit
los. Pigatti, Giacoma Pigatti, WI
| Clelland, Walter Waite, Frank Wait
Geo. II. Eddy, VIM. Hynes, Francis
zinirinck, Quarteroli. Abetonira. Rgc
Richards, 1bhn Timko, Andrew Think
WIN. Mortimer. John Brown, Bomfil
vi Rogerio, Jos. Crescini, VIM. Heinze.
~ ~ The News Spread.
When the rumor that men had be-
found alive in the s. Paul mine reac
ed the surface Of the earth this aftt
noon it spread like a prairie fl
Women and children rushed fro
their stricken homes and gather
about the mouth Of the main shaft
the mine in such crowds that t
troops had difficulty in keeping the
in order Scenes deeply pathetic
as deeply joyful could be witness
simultaneously by any onlooker
A Mothers Trial.
The mother Of VIM. Hynes
OF 20. was standing at the mouth
the shaft when the first 20 men cal
up. Some one ran over to her q
told her that her son whom she q
given up for dead was still alive 9
would be brought up soon.
woman d. opped down on her knees
the hard ground and prayed aloud
thanks to God. Another bystant
told her mistake had been made q