EXCITING RESCUE OF MINERS.

West Coast Times, Issue 7282, 8 January 1889, Page 4

EXCITING RESCUE OF MINERS.

An instance of what patient perseverance will do in the case of a mining disaster has been Bhown in Hungary. On Nor. 7th, a day which Professor Falb had predicted as a critical one, the waters suddenly burst into a shaft in the Salgo Targan Mines, near Peath, where three hundred and forty miners were at work, an alarm signal was given, and most of the men were able to get oat, but when the nameß were called over, twenty men were found to be missing. In the mean« time the water had risen bo high that it wag impossible to reaoh. them. The engineer and the chief manager, Herr Gerber, however, never for one moment gave the men up as lost, and for two daya worked incessantly at their resoue. Herr Gerber was oaxried out of the shaft in a iwoon six times In those two days, but •lwayg returned to the ohar«e. He bored holes in the well of the shaft, where he supposed the men might be, to allow the gases to eicape, and this clever contrivance actually Bayed their lives. They had already given themselves up aa lost when a draught of freah air reached them, and, besides refreshing them, was a sign of the efforts being made to save them. The manager, on returning to the Bhaft on Friday night, had ordered twenty consffi, and the miners' relations were preparing mourning for the funeral. The fifteen men who had helped Herr Gerber to reach the spot where the entombed miners stood surrounded by water, had to stand up to their neoks in water, the bad gases stupifying them every now and then. At last a lamp on a long pole was seen by those who were then firmly believed to be dead. They gave a shout of joy, and half an hour later the victims and their rescuer* joined hands. The twenty men had been in the shaft sixty-one hours without food and drink, standing up to their thighs, and sometimes up to their necks. The younger ones had given way to despair, but a brave Styrian managed to keep their spirits up and directed their movements as the water rose and fell. Though it was midnight the whole town wag up to receive them, and cheer the brave men who had saved them. Hundreds of guns and pistols were fired off by the exeltod spectators.

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