Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-11-21

Il waited for the team 60 come for th'
coal. but In two hours II had not come
20 I started to find out what was tht
matter.
Pretty soon / srncllod smoke and
felt that the ventilation fan had
lsfopped The fire had been burning
Ifor an hour. but mat was The firsi
! knew ~ IL.
u started 10 run then, but met
lGcorge Eddy and some others-abou'
len In all. aud Eddy let ~ Way back
where | had been working. Then We
tried 10 throw up n barrier, but II
Was pitch dark and We did not get
along well All The time we breathed
eas. had nothing 10 cat of my
own. but chewed bark ana drank
water we got The water BY making
little holes IA The bottom of the en-
ItrS. We made five of these holes and
thor. w..s always some n at them.
ne was our principal food. The coal
dust got into our boards because we
lalwsys were trying TO drink
We al s1tid goodbye To each other.
! and my brother. We cried much. At
| first the English among us sang songs.
ana the Italians were all the time
praying. but after "A while We were
AN TOO weak 10 do more than crawl
bout,
NOBODY reached MS ~today-we
reached them We wanted more wa
ter and We efawled owe our " bar
rier and staTtcd. We did moi know
v here we were ana were always fall
ing over things like mules. So We
.crawled nbout ten feet apart SO ~
to fan on cac other. The last
eaYc-in nearly blocked the passage
and so had to crawl q long way
through openings scarcely big enough
to hold MS. Then wc saw the res
who had come down. There
was no cheering. We just sat down
and let thcfn take care Of ne. That
wa4 ail. Nobody bad voicc enough
To cheer and hardly enough to talk 3"
Subacus was the only man allowed
10 20 to his home for several hours.
tho doctors fearing that tho men would
cat too much. Put the Lithuanian
grew ST. excited at being kept from
his wife and children that II was
Thought best to allow him ia have his
" way.
George Eddy. n hero among the
Who escapcd from the 81. Paul
mine. In the darkness and despair OF
his position, made shift to write a few
Of courage to bis Wife The let
follows
November ti-Dear wife and chill
| write these few lines to you
ana ! think 1t viii be for the last time.
! have tried To get out twice but was
driven back. There seems To be no
for us. I came down this shaft
Yesterday to help to save the mems
! hope the men | got out were
Wen. Lizzie. II ! am found !
lead take me TO bury me In %Streator, |
ind move. Keep Esther and Clarence |
md jimmie together ~ much rs you
an. I hope they viii not forget their |
never, SO ! win bid YOU al a
roodbye and God bless YOU all.
ISigncd) GEORGE EDDY"
on the reverse side Of this letter
written on a leaf torn from a note
took. was the following from Walter
November 1--we. the under
figned, do not blame anyone for the
that happened To us. We be-
thar everybody has done all IN
heir power 10 relieve us. with best
to all concerned
.SignedJ FRANK WAITE,
JOHN BROWN.
THOMAS WHITE,
John LORIMER,
JACK HTGATE,
s. HtGATE.
l.. FREDERICK,
q. ANTONORE,
+. SEANARINf,
LEOPOLD DEMOND. |
y. ROGGAEbI.
GEORGE SHIMIrS.
JOHN SHTMITS.
W. CLELLAND.
FRED BIERASKf.
r. BTERASkt.
JOHN BRONAS.
GEORGE EDDY.
WALTER WAITE.
FRANK PRERASkI. l.
JOHN BERDNAS.
GEORGE EDDY.
WALTER WAITE.
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