'The rescued mon said they had Soon other' miners straggling through the rising waters to higher levels. The only way to reach them was by cutting a long pass-ago from the old pit. Gangs of minors immediately started to do this, but the days pasted, the job seemed endless, and most people thought that if any miners had escaped the water they would have: long since perished with the deadly black damp. Still the rescuers carried on their task and nine days after the disaster their efforts were splendidly rewarded. A faint knocking was heard in the Gistance. "Moro men were rushed down and 30 minutes later—the rescued, n party of five, were shaking hands with their doliverers. Tu the ast spurt, 25 yards of roadway had been excavated in less than 20 minutes; a world's record.
All the food the rescued men had between them was of bread yet they wer condition and had under-estimated the Length of their ordeal by four days. On reaching the pit he they remembered the farewell mesanges they had written on the walls and were insistent that they should be immediately erased. The wife of one of them bad kept copper of water hob for her husband from the day of the jsastor, confident that he would he rescued.
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