The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-11-21
FIRE BREAKS OUT AFRESH
RESCUE WORK Is CHECKED
Priest Tells Of Finding Of First Group Of Those
Saved AIive.-Town Of Cherry Leaps From
Deep Dspair To Highest Pinace Of Hope
One Man Sent Home Others Kept in
Pullman Cars Until Fully Revived

face and others were too weak to be
moved.
J The news of the rescue spread like
wild fire. Great crowds pressed on
the mine grounds. Yells and cheers
arose When one man with blackened
face thrust his head out of the car,
the crowd became very demonstrative
: The sheiiff mounted the platform and
said:
| Good people, please be quiet; wait
until we get the others out, any
noise or too much cheering may do
harm. Be as patient as you can while
/ we take them out"
Mine Examiners Praised.
Among the rescued was George Ed
dy, mine examiner for the company.
Greatest credit is given him for the
work of saving the entombed miners.
The scene around the shaft and the
company's office was one of widest
iubilation.
The names Of the men rescued were
shouted from group to group down
the railroad tracks and into the viii
lage which was suddenly elevated
from the depths Of despair to the
: pinnacle of hope.
Every shopkeeper joined the throng
OF women and children in the hys-
Iterical rush to the scene.
Since Monday no expert either of
the schools or practical mining, be
/ lieved soul remained alive.
Hospital in Mine.
Inspector Crawford, of the state
board of health, after being down the
mine half an hour, reported that 81
of the live men were so weak that
they were unable to stand the exer-
tion of being moved. All the doctors
: on the grounds and in the village,
were hurried into the mine, where a
temporary hospital was arranged.
William Cleland, one of the sur
vivors, after drinking bowl of soup,
appeared none the worse for the ex-
perience. He said:
las soon as we discovered last
Saturday that there was no hope of
escape, we retreated to safe place
where water was found. Fortunately
some of the timbers behind us burn
ed out and let the earth and rocks
gas. How the time went we do not
know. We must have been uncon-
cious part of the time,
Some Joked About It.
of sipeage that dripped into gutter
and eating my lunch. After that some
pulled off bark, chewing it.
/. Eve did not realize how serious
. our position was. In fact some of the
men joked about it. After we drank
all the water and the sipeage run
dry, we began to pound on the wall
to cause more to drop down. Soon
, after this we heard voices. We could
hear them digging on the other side
of the rock and diGt which filled the
passage, and soon little hole was
seen at the top. The CLEAN of the
= torches came through.
= "Our first question was Is it Sun
A., day or Monday?' Most of us thought
lit was Sunday and that we had beer
in the mine only twenty-fosr hours.
u PRIEST TELLS STORY.
; Father Heaney, of st. Mary's
|, church, of Mendoza, who was down ii
: the mine with the rescuers, said:
~ "At 2 o'clock when we were 200
!. feet into the gallery from the hoist
. ing shaft. our party Stacked up on ac
), count of debris. Suddenly DaviC
Powell said: Listen boys: | heart
something. We all kept silent.
faint pounding on the wall was heard
: My God said Powell, I believe some
4 body is alive in there Some Others
G replied No, that Is impossible. No
body believes men can live down her'
: seven days.