The Mena weekly star., 1911-08-10
THE RESCUE OF AN
 ENTONDED MINER
JOPLIN MAN TAKEN FROM MAR ROW DRIFT AFTER BEING
 BURIED 72 HOURS.
Four Drill Holes Driven in Ground Before Air and Food Gould Be Supplied-Rescuc Shaft of S5
 Feet Brought Man Out.

D2NelS or the earth by a caVe-ln or
 the White Oak mine. Joseph Clary,
 B years old, emerged from the liv- Ing tomb at S:30 this morning. 1 The first men to reach Clary were
 two brothers-in-law, Morris Graf
 ton and Dr. Blookshire. The latter
 injected a stinuant into the im- lprisoned mar, a blanket was
 thrown over his head and he was
 hoisted in a bucket 72 feet to the
 surface.
 | The crowd Of nearly 5000 friends land curious spectators, warned that
 the drift in which Clary had been imprisoned was reached, took his appearance on the surface in abso- late silence. There was not cheer
 and hardly sound when ClaTy's father, who had worked unceasing- l " for sixty hours to rescue his son,
 embraced him.
 The shaft through which Clary
 was rescued was begun few min- lutes after the cave-in, which came
 at s o'clock Sunday morning, when Clary and another miner were in- specting a drift Working in fifteen minute shifts nearly 200 men
 worked frantically to reach the
 drift and when shout came up through the narrow hole in which two rcscueFs were working, the lpeople knew the drift had been
 reached. Then the two men were
 hoisted and the two men lowered
 who greeted C!ary first.
 Three times a five inch drill was lsnnk to give Clary food, and each time it missed the little chamber In which he was a prisoner. A I.ourth drill went through the roof yesterday noon and food, coffee and
 water were lowered to him. Through this little hole Clary com Imunicated with his rescuers and assured them he was all rigth. A bed had been placed beside the mouth of the shaft and when Clary
 was hoisted to the mouth of the shaft he was told to lie down. I'm all right; l can walk" Clary
 setorted and, led by his father, still wearing a blanket over his head, he walked to the ambulance that car
 ried him to his fathers home. Clary will be kept in a darkened room for three or four days, until | his eyes, thai have seen nothing | but darkness for sixty hours, can become accustomed to the light of day.
 Although weak from being with out food and nervous from the ex- lnerience that has cost others their lives, Clary was in good condition. Because of his nervousness he talk ed but little. But as he walked to the ambulance he told his father and those that gathered around him | b give his greatest thanks to the lmen and fellow workers who had Iloiled so hard to bring him back | to the surface.
 When his father and attending doctor would let him talk, Clary told l3is story:
 T was bit scared when the cave Fin came, but had presence of mind | to run into the drift and escaped uainjured. When I realized that was buried in the drift I just took things easy, knowing the boys would get me out as soon as they could reach me. As l stood under | the drill hole the water reached 1 my breast. When I went to the end | of the drift the water could not
 reach me, for the ground is cut thigher there than under the drill Lole. I spent my time in the dry end of the shat.
 All the time they were drilling l | heard the sounds of the bit, but lin the darkness I could not locate | the sounds. The second drill hole lcut into the side of the drift, but it seemed impossible for me to find lit. felt the fresh air. and shouted las loud as I could, but the boys
 couldnt hear Iis. Then ] heard the ldrill start in new location, and l
 lNnew it was impossible to make Them hear me.
 All the while the darkness in the drift was intense and could not locate sounds. They came from Ieverywhere. first at one place and Ithen at another. So I just sat in lihe dry part of the drift and wait sd. don't know what day it is, Ihut it seems to me that it ought to lse about Tuesday. It seemed a mighty long while while was wait- ling"
 Talked to Invalid Mother.
 | Standing in water that rose to This arm pits, while frantic efforts iwere iIliisis;s la 8 | .s Q $ al 2 deep well pump Unto working order to drain the drift, Clary talked last night over a Telephone to his invalid mother ir | her home half a mile distant. He laid not breathe word to her of tho lperil with which he was confronted
 q am feeling fine, mother, and Il1 morrow they will surely get mt lout,n he said over the wire which lrsn up through a six-inch drill holt E aL the fourth of a series that had been sunk to give him air. He die l not tell her that even as he talked the ice cold water was rising about ll.irm and that the narorw ledge tf (which he had chung above the leve