Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
Miraculous Survival of Heroic Band, Reduced
to Eating Tobacco, Bark and Shoes
and Drinking Seep Water.
ONE HUNDRED SURVIVORS
MAY STILL BE ENTOMBED
Pathetic Incidents When Men, Snatched From the Jaws Of
Death, Are Restored to Families Who Were
Given Over to Despair-Seven
Days in Nauseous Tomb.
Special Dispatch to The star.

CHERRY. Ill., November 2o-One week the minute after
fire started in the St Paul mine enombng more 900
and bringing upon them what looked like inevitable DEATH twenty
were rescued this afternoon.
believe that others alive in the
high The will work
night day until is settled.
spite their long burial and the accepted belief that
short time under such conditions of the
thought that had been only twentyour hours the FIRE
started and that today was Sunday.
Cut off by flames tunnels last Saturday, the
had rushed the shaft where escape impossi
be and then back chamber the further end Assembled
here the entrapped painting with excitement and fea took
counsel.
after they had rocks and
dirt fell into the partly blocking it. This fouous hap
pening helped them carry idea they already had
The began add the obstruction They made bar
rier between themselves and the gases which,
time, would certainly stihe them permitted to enter
When the had been closed the
1oe deiverance death.
FIND WATER TO sLAKE THIRST
Soon grim thought entered their minds They had
6er dinner pals had contained food but nothing alay
thirst This discovery almost took the courage of
heart s,e>
But feeling about desperation along the walls and floor Of
e black pit which held them they upon damp place.
offered them a chance and they began o dig
After while began into the black they
had moved Then the digging progressed it little
faster tricking, but flowing
The threw themselves the bottom of the
pressed their lips and tongues against the black slime
The food in the dinner pals had been assembled
stock This apportioned equitaby But the things
it could not last long
The men at times would shout and then listen ensey for
sounds of approaching aid. But they heard nothing.
The slender stock Of food low then gave out They
pounded the walls and shouted Mufed echoes only
BARK OF POSTS AssUAGEs HUNGER
Hunger slightly appeased hitherto became agonizng
their frantic efforts find something with nourshment in the
the bark from the cedar which used for
ports on the walls.
With increasing bodily weakness their minds began
They lost OF the days and nights which best they
keep imperiect They would lapse into
like sleep and then like a torpor
AT last the life giving began be exhausted be-
for them. weak and almost helpless they
o dig deeper into the walls for more +
1t this last work of despair thump of the
picks which the heard today
the bodies of the dead Almost the time the
sounds made by the rescue party.
The of their suferings heroism of their
full leaders of the thrilling the black history of
mining disasters.
Dawn with bearers of srechers moving from, tho
pit mouth the which served morgue with bodies
swollen and scorched almost beyond human sembane Forty
them had been brought and most of them identified the
marvellous report shot through the PROSTATE community:
They've found them alive! They've found them alivep
SURVIVORS BROUGHT TO SURFACE
In the morgue deserted scarcely to be re-
visited while the crowd fairly insane with the great hope which
had sprung like miraculous flame from the ashes despair
rushed to the pit.
All thought of the who alive
1t took six hours bring the the surface Mean
while report spread that alive
reach OF the mine off from escape damp be-
tween their barricade and the main shaft
But oxygen helmets remained mine the others
having been started back Ptsburg this morning With this
equipment two experts began exploration.
At pm they emerged their oxygen exhausted They
reported
There other resourceiu among the missing and
they like Waite Celland and Others have led their