FIGHTING FOR WATER.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 673, 25 November 1909, Page 7

FIGHTING FOR WATER.

THE, ENTOMBED MINERS. HAND-TO-HAND STEUGGLE-WEAKER" MEN'S CLAIMS. .■'.-. , (By Telegraph-Press . ABBoolaUon-Oopyrlght.i New York, November 23. Further particulars supplied by tho twenty men who were rescued from the Cherry pit, where they walled' themselves up in a section of the mine, and thus.escaped the fire, show that they passed through desperate experiences. They included 'Englishmen, Scotchmen, Italians,, and Lithuanians (from tho Baltic provinces of Eussia).' , '.'..'..' . .

, Two of . the heroes of the party, Walter Waite, an Englishman! and William . Cleland, a Scotchman, and;their immediate supporters,' had , a furious hand-to-hand fight with the Lithuanians, who argued that all water should bo given to the strong, adding: "The sick will- die. any way/' . . ..' ,- ■■' '.. ' Brandishing.-. their knives, '. tho , Lithuanians sought' to steal the water, which was ' stored in holes. Waito and Cleland struck them down* established guards over the .water .'supply,; and insisted on> a double'supply for their weaker and disabled comrades. ' ' •■ > The , rescue parties are continuing their efforts. Last night they reached the' lowest level, where air was found, also water. They hope.'to reach moro survivors;