The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-04-12
IN THE M l N E s IMPRISONED MINER |S RESCUED AT
 GLOBE
Henry Peryam Is Taken Out of Five Points Mine After 100
 Hours of Suffering.
None the Worse For Wear Thouuh Cold and Hunger Made Him In-
 coherent at First

l COHcFenC al r frSt
 Cold, nave starved, and incoherent
 as result of thirst, hunger and n,
 sleep, Henry Peryam, a native of Ref
 Ruth, Cornwall, England, was rescued
 from the Five Points mine of the Man
 itou Copper Company, Sunday anf
 brought into Globe Sunday night.
 He had been entombed at the hot
 tom of hundred and thirty-five foo;
 shaft for just fifteen minutes short ot
 hundred hours, his escape blocked
 by over twenty feet of rock and tim
 Ders. His rescue was the result of
 heroic work on the part of Fred Web
 Der and other fellow miners who la
 bored day and night to get him out. Early Wednesday morning Peryam
 was working at the mouth of a tunnel
 at the bottom of the Cracker Jim
 shaft when he heard the cagein com. ing. He rushed back into the tunnel
 which IS fifteen feet deep and six feet
 nlgn, and narrowly escaped from the
 falling debris and rock.
 He had three candles, several match
 es and candlestick. He would strike
 the matches, light the candle and
 look at his watch the first day until
 his matches gave out, he r.le1 lit LIe
 candle and kept light burning until
 his candles burned out. The water. in the meantime kept rising and be was compelled to seek safety on ledge crowding himself against the roof of the tunnel, to avoid drowning.
 On Friday the reScuerS first estab- l1shed communication with the i'm. pr1soned man through a small pioe and he told them of the water Ealing was resorted to to prevent the water from rising and had it not been for this he would have certainly been drowned.
 The splendid quality of Peryam's 1 nerve is shown by the fact that after facing almost certain death in several forms for three days, on Saturday he Joked with the men through the pi,e above telling them that he was al- 1 risht- not to worry about him, and said: If l had a pich and shovel I i believe I could get out by myself"
 After this he became incoherent and tod them that the pond down there was full of fish and that he had caught | one trout nine feet long, He held on to his candlestick until the last and it was necessary to force it from him, he clutched it so tightly
 At times, during the latter part of his confinement Peryam would be- come irrational and imagined that he was on hunting trip, at other times he told the miners who we ,a enjeL,- VI vas fine. Again he asked them 10 call off the dogs stating that one If them was trying to bite him.
 Even after he was carried out he complained that he had had nothing to eat except gooseberries for four days, another fgment of an t:.,.,- imagination and nervousness.
 One of his hallucinations was that Dr. Wfghtman had brougbt nim into the city and then carried him back and { put him in the mine again, and even .oday he could not entirely eliminate s his idea from his mind.
 While trying to get him out he ( bought that the rescuers were en- . ieavoring to drown him and would not s 'elease his hold on the rock to which le was clinSing. And it was only { through sheer strength and force that | le was literally pulled out by Fred t t
 Peryam when brought into Globe s Sunday was carried to Mrs Shugg's boarding house on Pascoe Hill where T le was interviewed by Silver Belt t eporter soon after he became ra- [ ional q
 Lying comfortably propped up in | ed and surrounded by a dozen symp- a theuc friends he was eating poached c ggs on toast and with evident relish ipping cup of strong coffee. C
 lie stated that he felt line and when sked if he would return to the mine 0 work stated emphatically that he 5as looking for a job where he could r year white collar and stay on the il urface of the earth for the rest of u is days is One of his friends. who is miner n | the Five Points also, said that he you'd not go through Peryam's ex- is erierce for hundred dollars and " 'ory am venIured the remark that it Ii < uld take more than that 70 1ennt C i'm to go near 9 shaft again 4 Dr. L. E; Wlghtman, who waited O ay and night al the entrance of the a halt to give medical attention to the i'd nlcn bed man as soon as he shOuld e taken out, stated yesterd:r that hen rescued Peryan1e was cOughire nd that he feared for a few. minutes N llt rneunOnia had set in. In a shot -h!le after reaching pure air, how yer, the coughing ceased and tne Dctur does not anticipate any compli- pl 4fjcrs or serious results from Il 2 c 'yiLg experience his patient ;.;.S 2une tE lruU2h. te One Of the first men on the scene ol ) Cffer his aid in helping dig Peryam in Ut was Dick Quick, who was him. w elf buried in the Old Dominion mine ce .Cut a year ago for several days. r eryam, at that time, helped to dig es nick out. Quick hearing Of Pery- W m predicament Wednesday as one OJ the first to volunteer hi5 Sorv:ces } aid in the rescue work.