Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-14
MI nsns< for Fifteen Days in Mime
William lave Terrible Experience;
Detailed Story Of Their Rescue Told

TO slip again. Knowing what was com
Ing, I tried to convey warning by
tapping, but OF course they didn't know
what the tapping meant, and we heard
the work continue until almost the last
minute Then it seemed as IL the whole
country had gone and there was an
awful noise, and then the work stopped
altogether.
LIVED SOME WAY.
well, we lived through the next IL
hours somehow, but don't know how.
Our water had given out entirely and
we had only about an inch Of candle
and one match left. We were walking
up and down the space we used Tor
exercise and suddenly I thought
heard water dripping. I lighted our
last candle with the last match we
had and started to scramble over the
muck to where 1t was. Grant fol-
lowed me and stumbled and fell down,
putting out the candle. Just felt SO
bad just lay there but Grant crawled
past me and went toward the drip
which I had already located. Then
the pipe hit Grant on the head and he
told me and l went and talked to the
fellows on the other end.
well, of course after that we knew
we were all right and We Just felt
wasn't hard to stick it out then"
Mrs Sayko was with her husband
right along from the time they were
rescued until by the DOCTORS orders
she had to leave. No one Is allowed to
see them for fear of unduly exciting
them. Having lost sleep to such an
extent, their main need Is plenty of
rest.
HEARD SLIDE COMING.
Grant says that 1t is to SAyko that
they owe their lives.
Emil heard the slide coming and
said to me: Pete, you'd better get
there's going to be a slide 1 didn't
want to go-didn't believe there was
| any slide coming, SO started to argue
! and he said, Well. you can stay here
| If you want to, but I'm going over to
that crosscut and stay until that noise
stops and you'd better come along
| II thought he might be about half
right. so l went with him, and We
hadn't any more than got there when
the whole thing caved in and we were
left shut In there. We tried to get
down and also to get up, but we were
| shut in sure enough.
| PUT SELVES ON ALLOWANCE.
The first thing We did was to put
ourselves on an allowance on our
lunch pals and water. 1t was sure a
lucky thing we did for we would never
have lasted out il We hadn't. We ate
| the last from our pals Wednesday. but
we didn't realize how hungry we were
! until they gave US that milk and then
sent down some bread to us.
Il thought never would get
enough of that bread. Mr.. Herrick
told us he was sending that bread
down to us to be a reserve for the next
| two weeks, but he didn't realize how
badly we wanted il, SO when we got 1t
Wa just told him we would be able
to hold out better II we had eaten all
we wanted. So we just ate all we
could and had some left.
I'VE had an awful time keeping
diamond drill. We had a space there
that we walked up and down in all the
time to keep the blood moving, and
\ that was the only occupation we had
for al that time. We couldn't sleep
for any length of time because it was
so cold we would get chilled to the
bone II We tried for any length OF
time. We slept for about four hours
and that was the longest that we
slept at any one time.
MADE COMFORTABLE.
but after we got into touch will
the boys OF course IL was different
We had enough clothes to keep III
warm and we had papers and maya
zines to read. Part of the time we
would sing to keep up our spirits ane
make the time grow shorter. Yo,
don't know what q difference hope
makes in a man when he has real hops
and when hesis Just held up by sor
of faith instead of a real hope baseC
on something. Before that time wheI
they put the drill hole through we onl.
had q deep faith that the good Lore
would pull us through, but We didn'
see how he was going to do it. Ant
then when we heard the voices o
our comrades again we had a real hop
to base our faith on. And then w
were SO happy that we fairly sang"
MEN TO RESCUE.
The rescue teams reported tina
Sayko was confident they would b.
rescued about the time they were, s.
they ate freely of their supplies an,
what the doctor had figured was suffi
cient for twenty days they lad de
voured by Friday night. Also IN add
ton to solid food. they were given si
gallons of water for use in smergen