Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-23
NO MORE LIVE MEN ARE
TAKEN FROM MINE
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Cherry shoveling coal out Of the little
| bin in the back yard. She was hum
ming cherrily at her work and readily
led the way into the house.
| In a bedroom off the combination
! dining room and kitchen was Subacus
on the bed, his three youngsters peer
ing at his blackened face and arms
through the bars at the foot of their
fathers resting place. A Catholic sis
| ter was present to see that the patient,
bolstered, up apparently by all the
pillows in the place did not overeat. His
story was simple and direct:
AT 1 o'clock last Saturday the pit
boss came to measure my work in the
northwest entry, on the south side OF
the entry. After he vent I waited for
them to come for the coal. but in two
hours they had not come SO 1 started TO
find out what was the matter.
Eddy's Presence of Mind.
| Pretty soon | saw smoke and felt
that the ventilation fan had stopped.
The fire had been burning for an hour,
but that was the first I knew of 1t. |
started to run them but met George
Eddy and some others-about twenty
one in all--and Mr.. Eddy led us back
where l had been working. Then we
tried to throw UP barrier, but it was
pitch dark and We did not get along
well. All the time we breathed bad gas.
had nothing to eat of my own, but |
cheWed bark and drank water. we got
the water by making little holes in the
bottom of the entry. We had five OF
these holes, and there was always
someone at them. 1t was our principal
food. That's how all the coal dust got
into our boards. because we were al
ways trying to drink.
What did you do all the days you
Bade Each Other Goodby
Why, we all said goodby to eacn
other. and my brother cried much. At
, first we sang songs and the Italians
, We're all the time praying, but after
while were too weak to more than
crawl about.
Nobody reached us today-we
reached them. we wanted more wa
ter and we crawled over our own bar
J rler and started we dldnt know
where we We're and We're always rail-
ing over things, like mules. SO on &C
count of that we walked about ten
r feet apart so as not to fall on each
other. The last fall in nearly blocked
the passage and we had to worm our
: way through long aperature scarce
r dreadfully weak for we had breathed
much poison. Then we saw the res
cuers who had come down. Ihere wa
5 no cheering. We just sat down and let
them take care of s. That was all. NO
pody mad voice enough 10 cheer ana
hardly enough to talk"
Subacus was the only man allowed
J. TO go to his nome for several hours, the
) doctors tearing that they Would ear IA
) too much. But the Llth-anlan grew SO
J, excited at being kept from MS wire ana
: cnlldren that II was heiu pest 10 aio"
him to have his own way;
Eddy,s Letter to wife.
George Eddy nero among those
T who escaped from the 81. Paul NINE
IN the darkness ana despair OF MS no
|, s1t1on, made shl1t to write rev WORDS
OF courage TO MS wire. Inc ietter ioi-
!, lows
D november Ia Dear VINE ana Chn l.
:. dren: ! Write tn. rev nnes 10 you
and thlnk IL Will pc Ior tne last tline'
6 nave tried TO get out twice put was
for en Gae Came down TINS shaft yeat ep
+ DAY TO heln save the mems lives.
sc nope lne men l gov oul were savetl
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ana clarence ana jimmie toselngr d.
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minsr S'e'a1'o S.oiy.
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70 part OF the time. -
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~ smut IN, orlnklng sIeat Qusn.ities =,
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IS days iater' ! guess IL WIS so,iie VI
~ puileo OH the pine DARK anu chewe
~ It.
We did not reallze nov serious al wa
~ our peru. IN rae, eoiie u lhe me
- spent the tl1ne JOKING anu sa'o tne
y; wished they had a PACK OF cards: 5, !
81 was a1ter the seepaee n , run ary slia
lQ we began to pound on the wall TO C3uS