Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1909 — BURIED MINERS LIVE UNDERGROUND 8 DAYS [ARTICLE]

BURIED MINERS LIVE UNDERGROUND 8 DAYS

Tapping Is Heard and Rescuers Fled Four Emaciated Moil Negaunee, Mich., Dec. 21. —Imprisoned underground for eight days, four miners have been rescued alive from the Negaunee iron mine. The men are In a terribly emaciated condition and will not be brought out of the mine for several hours. They are foreigners. The men were buried by a fall of rock after they had completed their day’s work. The others of their crew had gone to the surface when there came a crash and water from old workings carried down the roof of the drift Early in the morning miners working on the outside of the fallen ground heard a tapping and the imprisoned men were soon reached.