The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-23
Plane Is Ordered to Rush
Rescued Mine Victim
to Hospital.
SLEEP ONLY TWO HOURS
Condition of Robertson Is
Described as Surprising
by Physicians.
BY LAUGHLIN F. CUNNINGHAM
Copyright. 1886. by United Press)

MOOSE RIVER, n. S.,
April 23.-The best doctors in
eastern Canada strove this
afternoon to restore the
health of two Toronto men
who were snatched from
death after being entombed
for more than 10 days in a
collapsed gold mine.
Heroic miners completed their
part of the rescue when, after days
of feverish tunneling at the peril
of their own lives, they brought DR..
D. E. Robertson and Alfred Scad-
ding out of their prison 141 feet
under ground at 10:44 last night
indianapolis time).
The rest was up to the doctors.
They felt little fear for DR.. Rob-
ertson. But Mr.. Scadding's condi-
ton was sufficiently serious that
they decided he should be flown to
Halifax Immediately for treatment
of his infected feet DR.. w. E. Gal
lie of Toronto telephoned Halifax
to send a plane at once.
Sleep Only Two Hours
The two men, dirty, unshaven. so
weak they barely could stand up.
but still able to smile their thanks
to the reScuers, were put to bed in
an improvised hospital here shortly
after they were brought out of the
pit. Cheering and hymn singing of
the rejoicing rescue crews was cut
short so they could sleep.
Doctors later reported, however.
that the two had slept only about
two hours-either because of nervous
reaction from the 242 hours and As
minutes of imprisonment, most of
the time without food and in total
darkness and silence, or because the
doctors did not wish them to sleep
too long at first for fear of giving
infections or other ailments time to
develop.
DR.. Gallie said DR.. Robertson's
condition seemed satisfactory and he
was resting quietly, too weak to talk
to any one save his wife, who for
days had waited anxiously at the
mine head for the joyous reunion
that finally came last night.
Doctors Stamina Amazing
DR.. Robertson's stamina was con-
sidered the most remarkable because
he is SO years old, the eldest of the
three men who were trapped by a
cave-in while they were inspecting
the mine Easter Sunday.
Scadding, whose feet became swol-
len and infected during the days of
stumbling around in the rock and
wading through cold water, is A.
Herman r. Magill, Toronto lawyer
and co-owner of the mine with DR..
Robertson, was only 80 He died in
the mine three days before the res
cuers could burrow into it, reported
ly of pneumonia. An inquest was
arranged today to determine the ex-
act cause of death.
Mine officials we're forced to board
up the entrance to the treacherous
Reynolds shaft, through which the
rescue was made, to prevent souve-
mir hunters from entering it and
imperiling themselves. Almost ev-
erything movable was snatched by
the hundreds of sightseers who de-
scended on this little community.
Later a dynamite charge will be
set off in the Reynolds shaft to close
it permanently.
The tragic drama of the Moose
River gold mine ended at 1914 p. IN.
Wednesday indianapolis tim e.,
when rescue workers brought DR..
Robertson, 65-year-old Toronto sur
geon, to the surface. He was dirty,
unshaven, so weak he could hardly
stand on his feet, but he called out
cheerily:
Here comes Capt. Bligh."
Scadding Weak; Grins
Two minutes later, his living COM
panion, Alfred Scadding, was
brought to the mouth of the Rey-
AAOAOo SAid4b ni4CAC Cl1OE1CoSuC WOIh-
ers had been working under the
most dangerous conditions since
early Monday. He was weaker than
Robertson, but he grinned and
waved at the onlookers.
They were taken to a hospital set
up in the one-room mine Office. The
rescue workers - coal and gold
miners rescruited from the country
size, and government oficials-sud-
denly began cheering and many
wept. A Salvation Army worker
began hymn and the crowd joined
in.
Then more rescuers appeared in
the mouth Of the shaft. They car
ried blanket-covered stretcher.
Beneath the blankets was the body
Of Herman Magill, who was trapped
IA feet below the earth's surface
with Robertson and Scadding on
Easter Sunday. but couldn't endure
as much and died week later.
Three Miners Break Through
The crowd was silent as his body
was carried past to room in one
OF Moose Rivers Is houses.
AZ 1890 p. m. the rescue workers
overcame the last of their obstacles
(they had tunneled thrsugh almost
100 feet of solid rock. slate, earth.
and, finally, steel bars. since Mon-
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