BURIED ALIVE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 61, 13 March 1908, Page 6

BURIED ALIVE.

BANQUETS AND CONCERTS

The three miners whoa month or so ago were bjiried 1000 feet in the Alphia Mine, Nevada, are still cheerfully awaiting release. Not far an instant have their comrades outside ceased labouring to remove the mountains of rocky, debris which block tHe way to the gallery where the prisoners are passing their days and nights singing, eating, and drinking, but the progress they make is necessarily 'slow, and recently the entombed men were informed that yet another four weeks must elapse before they cau be* liberated. They received the intelligence, conveyed through a telephone, with a jovial shout of ''We're all right." Everything possible has been done to relieve the monotony of their term of- captivity. Daily music is sent to them "along the wires, while through a pump-shaft- more food and drink than they can possibly consume is daily passed. Between the rescnors and the prisoners thore is a constant interchange of jokes. The three men humorously sen!: up a strong-worded complaint of the inadequacy of ' the accommodation, afforded them, declaring if the "bellboy" service were not instantly improved and hot water supplied to them for baths they would change their hotel. Their health, they .say, i« excellent, and they warmly approve the caution with which the rescuers are proceeding in order to avoid alj risk of a landslide in consequence of rash digging. In a .Christmas letter to a friend, A. D. Bailey, one of the buried men, wrote:—"We are living on ithe best in 6he land, as everybody 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 cable, and we can telepno'ne up and talk to- the men any time.' " . ■