The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-21

xUK, OWA.SUNDAY, NOV
knees and the first thing Willie said
was: Papa did you get your dinner3
Fire Breaks Out Again.
At one a. M the rescuers were still
hard at work below They were ,ln-
able to reach the living men because
of loaded coal cars and the piles Ok
debris. They were devoting all of
their energies y hoisting the coal and I
clearing the passages.
Fire has again broken out In the
east tunnel of the second level of the
mine and Is burning fiercely. 1t Will
be necessary to seal up that avenue, /
II is feared that some miners may be |
alive behind the wall of fire and an
attempt will probably be made to cut |
through from another tunnel to the I
point where they are supposed to be.
Many Of the survivors told of the
impromptu prayer meetings conduct
ed by VIM. Clelland some time before
they were rescued, When the men
were in despair and ready to give upI
| the fight, C'elland started to sing a
| hymn. He is a Scotchman, Presby-
teSlan and deeply religious man..
HIS hymn was taken up at once by his
companions. The hymn was Abide
/ With Me-" and the walled prison OF
| the entombed men rang with its melo-
dy. Encouraged By the way the
1 hymn had cheered the men UP, Clel-
land started another hymn and an
other and these all the men joined In
4 at once.
The Prayed That Was Heard.
After the men had sung for an houv
there was silence and then in that
subterranean tunnel, Clelland preach
ed a little sermon He took no text
but urged the men to pray God that
they might be rescued from the ter
rible death that confronted them.
Then he prayed and all of his fellow
prisoners 1oined him and within
twenty-four hours they were all free
men.
President Notified.
CHERRY, ILL.,, Nov. 2o.-Mayol
Chas. Connolly of Cherry, tonight sen
I the following telegram to Presiden
Taft:
Il am glad to inform you that TWEEN
ty-one living men have been rescue'
= from the Cherry mine. One hundre'
and fifty more are believed to D
Z alive
= Village Excited.
= Many women swooned Thos
2 whom the soldiers held back, as gen
ly as they could, returned again an
n again to the attack and seizing tn
\, guns of the soldiers end avored
2. wrench them from their hands. Man
OF got through the lines and would hay
3, hurled themselves headforemost int
III the pit had they not been restaine
le Everywhere the village teemed wit
le excitement.
OF When the first rescued men 10
and Giacoma Pigatti, appeared on th
surface with their rescuers were tal
en- to sleeping cars in the Was
Of where nurses and physicians were
IN attendance to care for them. The
ell progress from the mine shaft to tt
en- cars was blocked every foot of Il
,s- way by hysterical men and screan1iI
IN women so that the rescuers had lite
no ally to fight their way along.
Ia. Men and women fell on their knee
a. on the ground and prayed aloud I
what they regarded as direct mai
festation of providence. Many in the
frenzy threw themselves on t
~ ground or clasped the feet of t
49, -, rescuers and kissed them.
- Chaos Reigned.
Women who recognized In t
~, twenty-one men taken out. their oN
ch kin would not be restrained b
'he threw themselves on their necks a
y sobbed, refusing to tear themsely
~ away when physicians attempted
eiy point out that the rescued men mi
icy have food. These women haa sto
NIX for seven nights and days waiting
news of their loved ones and tn
at would not be denied.
len The first half hour after the livi
ley men appeared chaos igned and 1T "
be- not until p. M, that semblance
are order was reported. AS fast as
of survivors were brought to the S
zen face they we're hurried to the sic
i'm ing cars.
The physicians fearing that the s
den taking of food might result s.
ously. carefully fed the men sn
ere quantities of soup and thin m
ght aiming to restore their strength gr
ges ually.
10 How Fire Started.
eat A group of troops was thrown alb
nre- the cars an6 once inside the
of were allowed to see no one but
In newspaper men and their relati'
.ss There the men began to unfold