The finding of these men encouraged the rescuers to carry on their good work with more energy than ever. At one time there was almost a riot at the pit head, caused by the efforts of men to get down nnd take part in the good work, Tt was regarded as almost certain that two men, an uncle tind hig nephew, had' reached a point above the water. "Desperate efforts were made to reach them. Naval divers were brought from Rosyth, but were unable to push through the narrow galleries of the mine to the imprisoned men. Bottles containing food and good advice were released in positions below the water thet might enable them to rise where they would be of use. It was of no avail. Nor was it possible to reach them by cutting a road. Pumping was the only method, and after a hundred million gallons had been pumped out the water in the mine only subsided eight fect. The rescuers} oh through on October 19, 24 days after the disaster. They! found the two men dead of starvation and exhaustion. Footsteps! in the mud showed how the doomed pair had followed the subsiding waters only to die a few days before the rescuers reached them.
Witnesses" told how, in another revealed an even deeper tragedy, The evidence at the inquiry
part of the mine, arrows were found traced on the dusty walls of old workings showing the way party had gone. Following, these fguies the teachers came te "11 lead miners in an old gallery. hey were without tools, and had cleared a passage with their bare hands 35 fect.long into an. old working, but starvation and exhhaustion' had killed them one by
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