The Carlisle independent., 1909-11-25
IN JAWS OF DEATH
TWENTY MEN RESCUED ALIVE
 AT CHERRY MINE.
Replacing Burned Timbcrs and Re- moving Distractions Makes
 Progress Very Slow.

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 After an imprisonment of 166 hours during which time the unfortunate men prayed, song songs, and lived upon the water which ran in the gut ters of the mine, and gnawed bark from the pine posts which supported the roof of slate over their heads, Elorc than a score Of miners were rescued alive by the party of heroes who have braved the gases of the smoke-belching shafts to locate the bodies of the bread-winners for whom the whole country has felt the keen. est sense of sympathy.
 It required a combination of sci ence and determination to succeed in checking the roaring furnace in the ill-fated St. Paul mine, where more than three hundred men were entrapped by fire starting at the bottom of the lifting shaft Bod loving mothers and wives have been watching and praying, are being ta- ken from the tomb, and when group of twenty blistered and smoked men who had braved the terrors below were found to be alive the news fair ly electrified the town. over which a pail of death has rested in deepest and darkest shadow
 It was just six days from the time the fire started in a bale of hay in fha inxuar ho no until the first body was recovered. The intervening time was one of deepest distress for those who mourn e.. the fate of the men who were shut of from escape by tongues of fame
 Experienced firemen from Chicago and experts with costly appliances to provide them with oxygen braved the hot gases which poured from the smouldering depths and worked in a desperate effort to reach the bodies of the victims who perished like rats iii a trap.
 The intense neat coming from the lower recesses where the men were ct work foretells the terrible fate Of the miners who were forced out into the very stub ends" in theis .ad frenzy to obtain oxygen on which to exist, if possible, until help could reach them.
 It is confidently believed that few more will be taken from the mine alive. and score of trained nurses who were rushed to the scene have been dismissed, and three hundred coffins have been delivered to the town
 During the progress of the rescue work. the greatest care must be ex- ercised by those who are exploring the minc and bringing up the men. Several times members of the party have been endangered by the falling of overhead rocks and dirt which is loose as a result of the intense heat.
 Members of tae rescue party tell of ghastly sights in che lower levels, in which men and boys and mules form mixture which indicates that the beasts of burden as well as the hu- man beings crowded into the farthest  recesses away from the flames
 It is hard for the bereaved wives to believe there is little hope, even after they have seen mutilated and scorched bodies from the death-cham- Der they anxiously inquire if there is not a chance for some of the men who are located farther back from where the fire ragged in fierce and fiendish glow
 A military guard has been placed at the mine to preserve order The opening of the mine has attracted thousands of visitors, who journey to the place in special train, automo- piles, carriages and on foot, and one of the darkest pages in the history of mine disasters is being crowded with details of distressing horror.
 When the living beings were taken from the lepths, wrapped in blankets, women who had been crazed with grief literally fought with the guards that they might again feel the pres sure of a hand, or hear a word of comfort from those who had been snatched from the jaws of death.