Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-04
Miners EniOmbed
 Six Days Rescued
FOUND oN TOP OF 4 CHUTE AT
 DEPTH oF 500 FEET
ALL WILL RECOVER
Fish oil and a Few Crushed Chicken Bones Made Up Their Principal Diet -AII Were in TerribIy Weakened Condition.

Lansford. Pa, Oct 3-Nine mine workers entombed in the Foster Creek tunnel of the Lehigh Coal and Eavi- gation company at Coaldale at noon Monday were taken ut aiivoe ait 4:25 this afternoon. They were found on top of d chute fn which they had crawled to escape a flood of water that had broken from an abandoned working and caused more than 300 feet of gangway roof to fall, shutting now in the hospital at Coaldale and reports from there tonight hold prom ise that all will recover. None of them. however. was in condition to- night to tell of their narrowing ex- l perience.
 The rescued men are Elmer Her ring. Peter Lemmick, Joseph Murphy, | John Mc9ndrew Dominick Hotcheck, | John Dononus, Michael Bodstdys Jo- seph Lagunfs and Charles Matchahis Watkins and George HolIeywood, es- capped from the underground prison on Tuesday after crawling through holes made in the fallen rock and coal Rescuers Worked Six Days- The rescue was accomplished after | 200 mine workers and company of | hcfals had battied for six days against Ediscouraging conditions in the choked- | up gangway- Their task was made more difficult by three-foot stream of water which flowed from an ad- joining working and which could be 1 regulated only by constant operation | of many pumps
 l After blasting and tearing away more than 800 feet of solid rock. coal and timbers that had been wedged tightly into the gangway by the fall | Of roof, rescue forces early today reached an open space below Chute 24 down which the stream of water pour ed from the mined source.
 ! Once more their work was checked by the presence of an even deeper ' flow of water and a wooden platform resmbling a large raft was built above the surface of the water and further progress was made toward the chutes in which the men had taken refuge.
 RitifuI Group of Humanitx.
 At the top of Chute No. 27. down which the coal from the upper vein is full group of huddled humanity was | drowned. It was intensely cold In the little space and the rescuefs found the nine men, two of whom are scarcely out of their teens. curled up in compact mass to retain the warmth of their bodies. All were terribly weakened by their 150 hours of waiting and praying and with wan faces uplifted and eyes blinking at the strain of the unfamiliar lights, the
  ings to their rescuers-
 Reeued Men Talked cheerfuIIy. I Several of the recued men talked cheerfully to their stretcher bearers while being taken from the mine and from them it was learned that fish oil and a few crushed chicken bones had made up their diet until Thurs day. when the later 'delicacy" gave out and the fish oil composition prov ed to be the only item on the bill oi fare.
 Each of the men had in his pockets several cakes of a fish oil substance
 that is used by mine workers in lamps
 and which gives a smokeless flame | Big Dinner Pail.
 John Bononus, has for many year.
 held a reputation for his enormou.
 appetite and the size of the dinner
 can that is required to contain hi.
 mid-day meal When the rush oi
 water forced in the roof, Bononus. ac.
 c0rding to the story of his compan- ions. ran with the others to Chute 27
 keeping firm grip on the dinner pail This probably is what saveS
 the men from starvation. In the pai
 Bononus had a large amount of bread other articles of food found in mos miners cans and the greater portioI
 Of a roast chicken. All of the foos vas shared among his companions bu } ll,e chicken wes saved until last. No
 Knowing how long they would be helt
 prisoners, the men partook of thei s food in small quantities and afte , carefully taking off all the meat iron ] the bones, placed the latter back il the dianer pail for a resorves supply
 Two Days Without Food. : More than -4s hours before ther 3 rescue. es near as the men could de ! ts-mine, the reserve supply CT chick l en bones was passed around and then . according to the men who could talk [ We're ground between their teeth an
 partaken of in small quantities. Flo 2 tie passed two days, however, the, a had been without food.