FROM A LIVING TOMB.
TWENTY MEN BAFE. ': THE -WORK OF RESCUE; CONTINUES. Jliy Telegraph.-Prow A»»oclatlon.-ouD7rliiUt.l New York, November 22. The number of men saved, after a week's entombment, at the Cherry. Pit, Spring Valley, Illinois, where four hundred miners were imprisoned owing to fire, was misreported. Instead of seventy-eight, only twonty were rcsoued alive,on Saturday. The' survivors roportcd that twenty-two moro men wero probably alivo in another section.. The pit is full of gas, but the search for tho twenty-two mon still continues. Walter Waito and William Hynds, Englishmen, "William Cleland, a Scotchman, and Joe Pigati proved heroes when the disaster occurred. Hynds induced his fleeing comrades to build themsehes up within a remote chamber. They were unaware how timo passed. When their food was exhausted they consumed matches, leather, and cedar bark. Cleland conducted a religious service twice daily.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 672, 24 November 1909, Page 7
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140FROM A LIVING TOMB. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 672, 24 November 1909, Page 7
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