Evening star., 1936-04-22
Both Men, in Agony of Pain,
Are Given Hypodermic Or.
dered by DR.. Robertson
Before Rock Penetrated.
THREE VETERAN MINERS
LEAD DIGGERS TO GOAL
Mounted Police Clear Space at
Top and Warn Crowd to Stay
Back - Stretchers Rushed to
141-Foot Level to Assist in
Transfer to Surface.

(copyrieht, 1896, by the Associated Press)
MOOSE RIVER, Nova Scotia,
April ga rescue crew digging
through 141 feet of rock and dirt
reached the two living men en-
tombed more than nine days in
the Moose River gold mine today.
They broke through a final wall of
stone and dirt to reach DR.. D. z.
Robertson and Charles Alfred Scad.
ding, both of whom we're in agony
from the privations they had endured
during their long wait underground.
A group of three veteran coal
miners, members of Nova Scotia's IA
nous mine rescue organization, the
Draegermen, formed the spearhead Of
the underground attack which reached
the noted: Toronto surgeon and his
friend.
Their companion on the descent
into the gold mine on Easter Sunday
night, Herman Magill, died two days
ago from privations.
So unbearable was the pain that the
two entombed men suffered that Dr..
Robertson asked for hypodermic in
jections at once.
Crowd Jubilant at Rescue.
At the top of the rescue shaft stood
hundreds of persons. Many of them
had been on duty day and night,
striving as best they could to assist
in the work Of rescue.
When the report came up from the
depths that the two imprisoned men
at last had been reached, cheers
broke out.
The excitement was on intense that
royal Canadian mounted police cleared
a space and warned the crowd to stay
back from the mine head.
Stretchers, prepared by the ambu-
lance unit on duty during the last five
days, were taken down the shaft to
assist in bringing the men up.
Danger Still Great.
There still was danger down below,
for the rescue crews had pushed for
ward so fast that little time had been
wasted in snoring up the crumbling
walls properly.
The announcement OF the rescuers'
apparent success was made by an ex-
cited miner who came to the top Of the
rescue shaft and shouted:
We've got through
For anxious moments afterward
there was no further news from the
workings, but it was surmised that the
miners had reached a comparatively
unobStructed gallery leading to the
trapped men.
DR.. F. r. Davis, minister of health
of Nova Scotia, went down the rescue
shaft carrying a hypodermic needle
and other medical supplies.
Other men picked up blankets and
hot-water bottles to be used in caring
for the suffering men below.
Hour More Underground.
1t was not known on the surface
how long it would take to get the two
living men and the body Of their dead
companion up into the open air, but
officials said they thought it would
take at least an hour
The way which lay before them was
long, twisting. narrow, low tunnel.
through which 1t was difficult to carry
anything.
The special stretchers which had
been devised for the rescue had rope
supports to permit them to bend
around the tortuous passageway.
Miners said they feared any Jars
against the sides of the tunnel might
cause a landslide.
The three men In the lead Of the
rescue efforts were Joe Simpson, unit
head; George Morrel and H. Hirsh-
field.
They had worked steadily since Q
am. in the last push to reach the men.
1t was those three who first opened
the Reynolds shaft. through which
the approach was begun, and it was
they who tore out the last rock from
the rescue tunnel.
They were the face workers" who
tore material blocking their progress
from its place with bare hands or
picks. In an unpropped tunnel going
through an area which has already
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