Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1912 — THRILLING RESCUE IN MINE [ARTICLE]

THRILLING RESCUE IN MINE

Accident Extinguishes Man’s Lantern When Ha Was in Old . Working.

Loudon.—How he was lost for tea hours in a dark coal mine, and only then rescued in an exhausted condition with great difficulty by a search party, was told by Willie Phillips, a mine official of Trehsrris, near Merthyr. Mr. Phillips, who is a son of the Treh arris mine manager, had a remarkable escape from death. His lamp went out, and he lost his way in the dark in the Treharris mine. “I was superintending a party of men who were raising rails,” he stated “when I had occasion tog© to another nart of the colliery. “Suddenly I stumbled and my lamp, slipped out of my hand and went out I did not know how to proceed. I shouted, but could not make the men hear, although I, myself, could hear them pulling the rails. I was in an old ram d, and I had. to crawl am 'mar: hands and knees. “I shouted again and again, but with-, out success, and ultimately I lay down, tired and worn out. and afraid to venture too far owing to perils of gas and water in old workings. “Eventually I went to sleep, and when I woke knew that search parties had been organized, for I could hear them shout continually. Will Phillips!’ T . .... • ", . , . “I responded as loud as I could, but thirsty,• and I cried twice and prayed. . .. . '.I , ; and that gave me relief.

-Slowly I started crawling along the road I had come toward the sound* I beard. I cut my hands and knees badly, but eventually was able to stand upright I fell frequently and when I was found I was lying down near a sheet “It Was as a result of a suggestion by~my father that I was rescued. “The search parties thought that the road I had wandered into had been closed up, but my father told them to explore it with the result that I was discovered.”