Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1912 — IMPRISONED MEN SAFELY RESCUED [ARTICLE]

IMPRISONED MEN SAFELY RESCUED

62 Miners Reached after Hours of Hard Digging. 'CkUGHT BY CAVE-IN IN SHAFT Entombed Men Come Out Into Sunshine to Greet Their Wives and Families—None of Them _ Injured. a Sutter Creek, Cal., Feb. 9.—After a night of hard work by miners from nearby mines the sixty-two miners entombed in thfe Bunker Hill mine by a cave-in in the mouth of the shaft were rescued at noon. None of the men was injured. They were greeted by their wives and daughers as they came out of the shaft with their candles still burning. The men had been caught by a cavein at the mouth of the incline shaft and a force of 140 men worked like beavers all and part of the day to remove the debris. One of the men called through the air pipe that they had climbed to the tunnel and the operations were changed to effect a rescue from this point. The shaft was jammed about 100 feet from the mouth. A loaded skip had broken loose and shot down the incline, tearing away the collar tim-, bers. No food was sent down to the imprisoned men for fear of choking the air pipe.