New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-03
MINER RESCUED ALIVE
CIary Liberated After Three
Days in His Living Tomb.
CROWD CHEERS AND WEEPS
Rushes to Stricken Mother to
Assure Her of His Safety
Tells of His Imprisonment.

Jonlin. Mo. Aug 2.--Joseph Clary. I'M
prisoned by a cave-in in the White oak
mine. near this city, since last Sunday
morning, was reached by rescuers TINS
morning lie was alive and well When
the last spadeful OF earth was removed by
workmen in the shaft and they dropped
through into the drift, Clary threw him.
self into their arms and wept, while the
shouts OF thousands cheering at the mouth
OF the mine echoed down the shaft.
Three workmen were digging in the mar
row shaft. when the bottom gave way and
they dropped into the drift. Clary saw the
light of dav and looked up on fellow-oeings
after a period In darkness which. Though
reckoned by him to be something over four
days. was really exactly three days and
forty-five minutes.
Hardened Rescuers in Tears.
Clary. though evidently IN fair condition,
was greatly weakened. The emotion he
showed at the sight Of his rescuers and the
deathlike pallor of his face brought tears
to the eyes Of the hardened, wornout
miners
At a signal from the rescuers physician
was lowered He administered stimulants
Clary was holsted 10 the surface, and set
foot on top of earth ten minutes after he
was found. Curious spectators were kept
from him. His father. brothers and the
physician hurried him away TO the Clary
home near by. where his mother. weakened
by the strain Of her long vigil. lay i'll.
Clary is twenty-three years old, the son
Of Thomas Clary. a pioneer mine operator
who has directed the rescue work con-
stantly since his sons imprisonment Re-
lays OF men and boys began digging the
shaft on Sunday, and had worked night
and day since The first three attempts "a
drill a small hole to admit air and nourish-
ment failed but the fourth was successful
yesterday. II was found that Clary was In
imminent danger Of drowning from water
rising in the drift. Diggers in the shaft
redoubled their energy. with the result that
the drift was reached hours earlier than
expected.
Heard Drill Of Rescuers.
The suspense Clary suffered is indicated
by the story he told over an improvised
telephone leading into the drift where he
was imprisoned. lie stopped now and then
while reciting his remarkable experiences
20 receive food and water, which were
lowered through the shaft which the
rescuing party had bored into the drift
where he was imprisoned He said:
Il tried to count the strokes of the drill
and was able to gauge time a little by the
pounding Of the bit Hours passed until
heard the drill cutting into the hard
ground. but / could not locate The sound
in the darkness.
soon the drilling stopped. I knew they
had missed the drift. As time passed and
could not hear a sound. ! Could picture
them making new calculations. was not
surprised when l heard the drilling begin
again The time passed Just as during the
drilling of the first hole All the time the
water was rising little higher. hut was
not worried. / was hungry. but l tried 10
keep from thinking about anything TO eat
1t was hard to keep from thinking about
1T. however, and ] drank a lot Of water
from the drift
Never Gave Up Hope
after a while l felt draft Of fresh
air and I knew the drill had cut into the
drift But I'm the darkness I could not
locate it, called with all my might, but
could not make myself heard. It was mad
dening.
Then when / heard the drilling again
IN new location I was discouraged for
the first time. But not for a minute did
give up hope
1T was just the same thing over and
over again for the next few hours. l grew
ravenously hungry all the time, but tried
10 forget it, ] busted myself as much as
possible until the fourth drill hole pene-
trated the roof Of the drift II took me n
long time 10 locate the hole but at last
found it. You know the rest"
Clary spent to-day at his mothers bed
side, apparently but little the worse for
his Ions imprisonment. Mrs Clary is re-
covering from the shock and the family are
holding a happy reunion this evening.
Clary said tonight he would resume
work in The mines tomorrow morning II
the doctors permitted him TO leave his
darkened room.
Mining has no terrors for him, he says.
lie believes that he has had his turn with
the accidents that cause SO many deaths
In mines 9 thinks that 'fhp same fellow