Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1906 — HE IS ALIVE BUT BURIED [ARTICLE]

HE IS ALIVE BUT BURIED

One of Six Men Who Has Been Imprisoned Since Last Friday—Hts Companions Head. Bakersfield, Cnl„ Dee. 12.—L. B. Hicks, one of six workmen who were burled tinder tons of earth at Edison on Friday last, is still alive and well, and through a two-inch pipe forced through seventy feet of debris is In communication with the big force of rescuers. Hicks informed the rescue party through the pipe that be had talked with companions for two hours after the cave-in on Friday,' hut he had heard no signals from them since. He supposes they are dead. Food and water were passed to Hicks, and barring reddeuts he should be reached in five days.