Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-04-04

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placed nay crew and Holidays at in
tcrFdls along the line ~ show tine
men light I placed one Of the Gary
men ana one Of the inspectors crew
az the end Of the line and told the last
man 10 follow them 10 the surface.
then went TO the front o fthc line and
advanced as quickly as possible TO get
strctCher crews organized 20 carry out
the men that were becoming too weak
10 walk was very sick at the mine
from the gas but waited an the pit
mouth until the last man had reached
the surface
Ate Only Bark.
Another OF the brave rcscuers was
Nluus Killer OF the United States Coal
.ompany Gary, W. Va. who accom-
panied German. In describing his cx-
perlencc he said. when we tore
down the last stopping, the first
I'VE mon came sliding headfirst down
The pile of slate. When he got
through hc asked me if we found the
note that he had placed two days be-
iore and showed q piece OF bark in his
mouth which hr had broken from the
In MS pocket and he told me he had
nothing to eat for four days but the
bark but ne said he had had plenty
of water
Coming out with the me we
reached the sixth or seventh when old
man Nhalon felt tO6 weak to walk.
ana j left one rescue man wearing q
machine 10 attend 20 him until (
could send man with a strotchcr to
carry him out Shortly after / left
Nhalcn an Italian dropped out Of the
Inc. one Of the rescucrs attended to
him and / administered oxygen from
a bottle, taking the oxygen from one
OF the apparatus, when he felt better
ana walked another piece. At this
same place the whole proc ssion stop
PED FOR rest and | found one OF the
miners sitting on the left rib. He was
telling me that his heart was about to
give out / let him breathe oxygen
through the mouthpiece Of my ap-
paratus and a few minutes later he
SAID You have about saved me now,
] feel fine After this he got up and
commenced TO walk out. In the mean
time men with strctChers passed US
and ! instructed them about the two
men who had been left behind. Men
with blankets started TO arrive and
distribute them among the men to put
around them when they got on the
outside. We came to about two hun
dred feet within the drift mouth
where Dr. Lynott, the bureau Of mines
surgeon. stopped the men, telling
them TO be cautious with their eats
not 10 eat anything but hot soup or
coffee and to lie down and sleep after
getting out, and /, in broken Italian,
told the Italians the same thing. The
men got out Of the mine all right. 1t
was a pathetic sight, the rescued
miners hugging and kissing the
roscucrs."
Although the rescuers were more
than q mile from the entrance OF the
mine when they discovered the AZ
men, a crow consisting Of II. -. Mason,
Jr., assistant mining engineer of the
bureau OF mines, and two trained
miners from Gary under orders pen
ctr1tcd further in the hope OF saving
more cntombed men That they We're
taking desperate chances Us evident
from what Mason said "Thirtle,
TOshie and myself were by this time
feeling rather weak and we sat down
and turned on the oxygen. Toshie be-
came completely exhausted and was
forced TO lie down on the track, while
Thirtlc ana myself sat down with him
until he commenced TO feel stronger.
We proceeded once more and when we
encountered trip Of loaded coal cars
Wc were pll SO weak we had consider
able trouble getting through between
the cars. Proceeding slowly another
stop of five minutes was made at the
seventh left where We an sat down
against The rib and brcathcd deeply
from our apparatus. We finally
reached the outside OF the mine after
having been In two hours and q quar-
t,r and having travelled distance of
lG.2U0 feet wearing apparatus. We all
suffered from weakness, high pulse
and severe headache for six hours aft
crwards. No more live mon were
found I'M the mine"
Told Experiences.
Thomas Whalcn. the eldest survivor
and who had TO Doe carried on a
sfTotuher from the mine, gave
dramatic statement OF the experience
pf the cntumbcd men: "l was work
Ing with my son John In room %,
ninth entry when we heard a rumb- I
ling round said Mhalcn. I'VE ran
down 90 the main entry. hut the heat
was $50 great II took our breath. wa
made a hasty retreat I'm by on the main
entry but not before seeing dead
bodies uf four men who worked on a
motor and whose bodies were
stretched face downward with hands
full length The only
thing ] remember was the awful feel
ing that tho top Of my head was being
luCd off, the feeling being one OF
tDrTIIlD agony NV son was using n