Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 304, Decatur, Adams County, 27 December 1951 — Page 2

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Lone Mine Survivor Relates His Story } . Sanders Tells Os v Mine Experiences West Frankfort, 111., Dec. 17.— (TP) —Cecil Sanders, 44, the only trapped miner, to survive the New Orient explosion which killed 119 men, Staid he and nine others en/tombed with him sang hymns un- ' lost consciousness. > • r - Sanders told his - story while propped up in bed in a hospital, > where he is recovering from carbon mpnoxide poisoning. He was interviewed by a newsman acting for the combined press.

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Sandtxs was rtrttiH early Mon<ay, 5S hours after the blast. Dob* tors said his survival was "a miracle." | ’7 He said he was With two other men when the explosion occurred, The three ran up aa air course, Loping to reach safetly. But he said they met seven others coining toward them. "Gas was aides,” Me , Sanders how he the others huudied in a room and built burlap brattices to keep out the A ' 'I “It qeßped for awhile,” /he said. "Two njDurs probably, and/then the Jas begsn to close in. We were getting wehk, awfully weak.” *’ He said they curbed up on a rock fall. o ‘ “1 told the boys: ‘boys,’ I. said, ‘how you’re at the end of the road. This gas is gonna take ua and the only\ thing that can save us now is the Almighty Hand of God.’ ” ■ Sanders said some of the men feebly tried to sing hymns and pray as they gradually lost coesriouo n ess “I know when I lost consciousness 1 was singing ‘The Amaaing Grace,’ ” he said. Sanders said one man looked at his watch and noted that four hours had passed. Some ’time afterward.

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he said, tha men began to black out In the last few hours, he said, 1 one man scrawled arrows and a sign, •'men here,” on “a wall as a guide to rescuers. He said the men took turns shining their lights to save battery power, and rationed the little water they had? One man had a pencil stub and passed it around so the others could write farewell notes to their families. Sanders was third t from the top on the rockfall, but only he survived. “What I can’t understand, and here’s where the Hand of Alnkfghty 1 God comes in, those nine bodies — we whs all on the rock together—and I came through,” he said. Asked if he would return to the mines when he has recovered, Sam ders said, “that’s something I just can’t answer.” • Gross Income Tax Blanks Out Friday Indianapplis. Dec. 27.—(UP) — Indiana’s gross income tax division prepared its own style end-of-the-year greetings today. Division director Jamea M. Propat said they’ll be mailed tomorrow —the 1951 gross Income tax blanks.

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Three Connecticut Youths Are Jailed Goshen, Ind., Dec. 2?.— (UP)— Police held three Manchester, Conn., boys today who they said left home in a stolen car and drove away from an Edgerton, 0., service station without paying for gaso-\ line. The three, Roger Michard, 19, Gerald A. Carter, 16, and Ewdard Armstrong, 15, were arrested yesterday by state police. I Mercury Near Zero In Central Indiana Indianapolis, Dec. 27.—(UP)—A current of cold air blew into Indiana and sent the mercury tumbling near aero in the central part of the state early today. Lafayette , reported one degree above sero. Fort Wayne had five, Terre Haute seven and Indianapolis eight. It was warmer in the north ann the south, however. South Bend had 13 and Evansville had Weathermen said the eold air, which sent the mercury to 19 below at Joliet, 111., would cover most of the state today and keep it quite • cold.' Temperatures will be very low tongiht, they said.

_ j. , eliiSfz iin j r / 'HH '■’• I, ■ Y' ■ NCH WAR BRIDE Mrs. Odette Jackson finds this the happiest of all tj|i Christmases she can remember. Freed from prison, after serving six rtfqnlhs for the involuntary manslaughter of her husband, she is her three children in Philadelphia. There ts ope hiteh, however, fifts; Jacksun and the youngsters, Veronica. John and Lorraine, have Bf&n turned over to the French Consul in Pennsylvania, and will be sent to France after Christmas. (International. Soundphoto)

Policeman's Second Trial Set January? Ilea go. Dec. (UP) —Sus?.i policeman Michael Moretti go on trial‘again Jan. 7 for nurder of a 15-year-oki boy. Bi case was assigned yesterq criminal court Judge WenE. Green. retti’s firs! trial for the slayd Arthur Gamino ended in a wked -jury. He is accused of g Gamino and Edward Salvi. id wounding Leonard Monaco, provocation as the Giiße eat In a\ parked qar Aug. 24. | H ~/"'t\ Cardinal Spellman Korea Check ifttaan. Korea. Dec. 27. —(UP) — I'rlhcis Cardinal Spellman todav ga<>:his personal check for $5,000 to fiKprean President , Syngmau Rhie to help alleviate civilian sufferfhg. The /archbishop of New York arhere from Taegu following a frontline tour with Gen. James A. Va£/ Fleet, Sth army commander antOth army chief Chaplain John T. Kscoyne. ('krclinal Spellman spent an hour at the presidential manand then drove to the convent. He was guest of ksnor at a dinner this evening at we United Nations civil assistant command.

bt? WITH THEIR DREAMS of spending Christmas with their families about to be realized, these wounded Korean veterans wait to board a train at New York’s Grand, Central Station. They were among 50 from the \ St Albans (N.Y.) Naval Hospital,, whose transportation to and from their homes is the gift of the Jewish War Veterans (Dept, of New ToritL In the group (1. to r.) are: Sgt Edward Grhghan (with cane), of N.Y.; Petty Officer Robert Smith, of Somerville, Mass.; Marine Pfc. Norman J. Cyr. of Waterbury, Conn.; Sailor Alfred Giocelli, of ManMhAEtae. Conn, and Pto. William WaUaeM. Riiffalo. N.Y. <lnterna.tiana.il

Fox Hunts Planned Saturday, Tuesday The Decatur conservation cliib will atari from the court house 8a mra ay morning at 8 o’clock on second fox hunt of the season. Only 12 members braved the cold of last Saturday and as a result, two animals escaped the hunters. A .arger crowd is hoped for next Saturday, provided/the weather is better. Officers of the club also announced there would be a third hunt New Years day, leaving the court house at 8 a/m. All hunters a've’ invited, whether or not they a-e club members. I , __ . _-- ; Organist Guest Os Honor At Reception Mrs. Leah Cohen Malay, organist at the Temple of the Achdyth Vesholem congregation in Fort W'ayne since 1901, trill be honored at a large reception in the Tempi.? Friday evening after a ’ recital marking the completion of her fiftieth year with the temple. Among the guests invited t 6 participate in the program is Mrs. Dan Typdall of this city, who sang with a quartet at the temple for a number of years. Mrs. Malay is well-known in the city and appeared here when the organ in the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church was dedicated. Mrsi J. Fred organist at Zion church, received part* of her training under Mrs, Malay. \

Mrs. Caroline Daily Is Taken By Death Funeral Services) Saturday Afternoon Mrs. Caroline Daily, 75, died at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday at her home, two and one-half miles southwest of Chattanooga, 0., following a long illness. She was born in Mercer county, July 36, 1876, a daughter of ’hilli'p and Margaret Eme'rick-Wen-lel. Her husband, John Daily, died Tve years ago. She was a member bt [ the St. Paul Evangelical and Reformed ihurch. • Surviving are one son, Clarence, it home; fpur v brothers, John Wenlel of Berne route 2, Lewis of Chattanooga, Jacob of Ridgeville md Leslie of Bryant, and one sis-

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