REMARKABLE.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2196, 16 October 1913, Page 4

REMARKABLE.

JUIN'JSR KXTOMBKD FOR OVER A HIS DESPKRATE LIFE-AND-BEATH STRUGGLE. SPECIAt TO SYDNEY GUN. iSew York. October 3. For the : last eight days a desperate struggle to save an .entombed miners, life hiis been in progress at Cciitralia. Pennsylvania. . _, Tli:- iiv.nrisonctl man 'S lliomas 1 osheskv, who while at work in the Coutlno'ita] Mine, was completely cut oii from ail mcavs of escayo ">" «« lmmenso fa'-i of coal and rock. Day ami night since then have the rescue ■ parf-cs laboriously and feverishly been cutting through 'the great solid wall hi the effort to release the entombed man. ■ . . , . ~ •Toshesky himself is inulergoing the ordeal bravely, lie is l;eing provilled i T.ith t'rcs'ii air ; >iy means oi meta. j tubiiig. through which those who are 1 toiling so hard to siive his life are also 1 ably to communicate with lism and to keop liim supplied with liquid food am! stimulants. 'i'iio luckless fellow spends most ol liis tim-j singing and praying that none of his rescuers will be hurt. To-day lie told them how nungry lie was, ami liow ho longed for a big dinner on roast beef. He is still separated from freedom by about loft, of solid coal, and it is*reckoned that another 18 hours must elapse before His comrades can reach him.