AMERICAN COLLIERY DISASTER
SEVENTY-EIGHT MEN rescc::-.v
SENSATIONAL SCENES.
Press Association—By TclcgTaph-Copjn'ebt
NEW YORK, November 21,
(Received Nov. 22, at 0.50 a.m.) The rescuers at the Cherry mine demolished a wall of debris yesterday and found 78 men tilivc—67 in oiie section and 11 in another.
Jho news spread like Hghl-ninsr. and crowds of women were fighting tluTmilitia in their eagerness to 'reach (he ..it's mouth.
Those who were rescued included William Cleland, his brother, who was one of Ilia rescuers, bringing him to the. surface without recognising him. When the survivors were first readied ii was thought that they were dead, but one of them raised a hand, and the' rest were found to be breathing. All weje hurried io the shaft, where stimulants were administered. The faces of some of the men were black with smoke, and were f.lightly scorched. The safely of tins men' was due to their walling themselves in.
Joseph Cvc.vcim, the leader i„ ih„ |j„] lt , s.Kiiin.4 dcalli, slates that, acting on the advice of his Kiiijlish comrades,' lie lid the men's food collected, and short rations were served. They lived part of the time on mule meat.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14687, 22 November 1909, Page 5
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