BURIED ALIVE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 139, 6 March 1908, Page 4

BURIED ALIVE.

- » . BANQUETS AND CONCERTS.. r The three miners who a month or so. ago ■were.'buried 1000 : feet deep in the Alpha Mine, Nevada, are . still cheerfully '. awaiting release.. '-■ ■ ■ • ■■■ :• .• ■ • ■ ■.■ •' y. Not Jot. an . instant have their ;i comrades, outside ceased labouring to remove the mountains of' rocky debris which block- tlm way •. to tho gallery where the prisoners- are passing their days -and nights singing, eat-' iiig, and drinking, - but the progress they, make is necessarily slow, 'and recently the; entombed men wore informed that yet another four weeks must 'elapse before they caii 'bo liberated; /.They' -received" the intelligence, through a telophone, with a jovial shout of "We're all right.": _ Everything-possible has been done to relieve ,the. -monotony of their term of ..cap-, tivity; ;; Daily '.music is sent td'.tliem along the wires, .while through, a pump-shaft more food, and drink than they can ]»ssibjy consume is daily passed.. Between the rescuers and thp prisoners . there lis a , constant inter- ; change of jc'.cis. . ;/. The three menhumorously: sent up a strongly-worded complaint- of the inadequacy of the accommodation afforded them, declaring ,if *tlie "bell-boy' 1 service were, iiot in-; stantly improved and hot water supplied to '..them ,for baths they would, change their | hotel. ' /" ' - '' - - Their , health, they say,, is excellent, and. they warmly approve the caution with which the rescuers arc proceeding in order to! avoid all risk of a landslide iii consequence or rash digging.. ' ■ In a Christmas letter to; a friend, A. "D. Bailey, one of the buried men, wrot«:—"Wo aro living 'on the best in 'tho land, aseverybody wants to . send us ' something Wines, cigars, and all 'kinds of fruits are being sent down in small '.vessels attached to a rope. -'After ,we got the water column opened we connected our-telephone-'to/the. electric calilo, and we can tolophone up and talk to tho' men' any time." ■