The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-11-26
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1mpriyonedl Men Win Desperate Battle and~Afe
Walied-in 100 Hours Hynnns, Prayers, and Sermon Dispel the
Spirit of Dependency Assailing ~Them-Tragic Scenes
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Cherry, In.-The st. Paul coal min.
has given up one-fourth of its living.
At midnight there had come alive
out of the mouth of the pit twenty-ons
men, who for a week had been giver
up for dead.
At that hour there remained in the
mine upward of seventy men who were
still alive, but had not been brought Il
the surface.
The men told tales of hardships and
privation and suffering. They told OF
fighting first against death in the shape
of fire, and later against the slow death
of suffocation.
For seven days they subsisted on
what little food was in their dinner
buckets, and the bark of the mine tim.
bers, and drank the oil from their
lamps and the seepage in the cutters
OF the mine. For seven days they
watched and waited and prayed for res
cue, and tuned their ears to sounds from
the outside world that would tell them
that rescuers We're 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 off
their slowly approaching doom, rescue
came, and willing hands dragged them
from their prison 800 feet under the
earth's surface, and brought them up
to home and friends.
Many of the survivors told of the
impromptu prayer meeting conducted by
VIM. Clelland some timo before they
were rescued. When the men were in
despair and ready to give up the fight,
Clelland started to sing a hymn. He
is a Scotchman, a Presbyterian and a
deeply religious mar 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 melody. Encouraged by
the way the hymn had cheered the men
up, Clelland led in another and still an
other.
Sermon Precedes Rescue. ~s,..l.,.
After singing for IN hour, there wa
a silence and then in that subterranean
tunnel Clelland preached a little sermon.
He took no text, but urged the men to
pray to God that they might be rescued
from the terrible death hat confronted
them. Then he prayed, and all of his
fellow prisoners joined him and within
twenty-four hours they were all free
men.
The first news that men were still
in the mine reached the surface
at 2 pm. For days the interior of the
mine had been a fiery furnace, and all
hope that men might be still living in
side had been abandoned. Volunteers
had gone down to bring up the dead and
could scarcely believe their own senses
when they found living men to bring up.
The news spread like wildfre through
the stricken village, and before the
first of the entombed men had stepped
out of the cage at the surface, a de2se
,hrong surrounded the mouth of the pit.
Men, women and children deserted their
lomes and ran, some of them half clad,
o the mines mouth.
The two companies of state troops
hat had been sent by Gov. Deneen to
disorder when dead bodies were
up, found no disorder until the
living appeared.
Women whose husbands, brothers and
'weethearts had been buried since the
ire broke out, became hysterical in their
excitement and fought with the soldiers
o reach the mouth of the shaft.
Many swooned. Those whom the sol
iers held back, as gently as they could,
urned again and again to the attack,
nd, Selling the guns of soldiers, en-
Favored to wrench them from their
ands. Many got through the lines and
have hurled themselves head first
nto the pit had they not been restrained.
Everywhere the village teemed with
xcitement. The progress of the men
rst rescued from the shaft to the cars
7as blocked every foot of the way by
ysterical men and screaming women
The mother of William Hynes, a lad
f %, was standing at the mouth Of
he shaft when the first twenty men
anne up. Some one ran over to her and
aid her son, whom she had given up
dead, vas still alive and would be
up soon. The woman dropped
} her knees on the ground and prayed /,
loud her thanks to God.1 Another by /
told her a mistake had been
lade and her boy was dead. SD s.,stI,
The mother screamed and fell back
a swoon from which it is feared she
i'll never ecover. Within ten Minutes
Hynes was brought up alive
nd well. 2 Aot1 T,
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Women who recognized among The
.enty-one men taken out their own !
ID wcyld mot he .restrainedstb hut threw
lemselves8 on stheirg:n eckso and sehbeds i
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