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VOLUME XII. y H ffi I JLEKOIR, 1ST. a, DECEMBER , 1909. NO. 11.
Dr, Waiter W. Moore.
Lesllie's Weekly. -
The Moderator of the Presbyter
Ian Charch in the United States is
the highest office which the Pres
byterian can offer one of the
clergjmen. Walter William Moore,
I) J)., of Richmond, has just been
elected to ocenpy that proud post-
tion. Dr. Moore is known through
. oat the country as 7 an earnest
churchman and educator. He was
bora at Charlotte, 2T. 0., June H,
1857. His preliminary education
was received at a private school,
the Flniey High School,' teuoir,
N. C. In 1878 he was graduated
jiom lMTiasoQ college, wita an
A. B. In 1892 the same college
gave him an LL.D. He then went
to Virginia "and later became
student at Union The ologiool
Seminary, whence he was graduat
ed in 1881. Central University
bestowed on him a D. P. in 1885.
From 1881 to 1883 he was an
evangelist in Western North Car
olina, later becoming pastor of a
church at Millersbarg, Ky. Ia
1192 he became professor of Hebrew
and literature at Union Theological
s Seminary. He became president
of Union in 1904. He is trustee of
Hampden Sydney College and
member of the board of visitors of
Richmond College.
(Dr. Moore, is well remembered
by a number of the older citizen
of Lenoir who are dad. but not
sarprised to see him honored by
the members of his church.)
How Daniel Boone Died.
The Ohio State Journal of Sept
24, 1818, published the following
account of the peculiar death of
the famous Daniel Boone:
"As he lived bo he died, with
his gnn in his hand. We are in
formed by a gentleman direct from
Boone's settlement, on the
Missouri, that early in last month
Col. Boone rode to the deer lick
aod seated himself within a blind
raised to conceal him from the
game; that while sitting thus con
coaled with his old trusty rifle in
his hands pointed towards the lick,
the mmzle resting on a log, his
face to the breach of bis gun, his
finger on the trigger, one eye shut,
the other looking along the barrel
through the Bights iu this posi
tion without a struggle or motion,
aod, of course, without pain, he
breathed out his last so gently that
when he was found next day by
kis friends, although stiff and cold,
he looked as if alive, with gun in
hand, just in the act of firing. It
la aot altogether certain if a buck
had come into range of his gun
which had been the death of thous
ands, but it might have obeyed its
old employer's mind and discharg
ed itself. This hypothesis, being
novel, we leave it to the solution ot
the curious."
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: Miners , Entombed.
Cherry, 111., Xov. 29. The
gamut from deepest despair to a
hysteria of hope was run here to
day when 21 miners entombed In
the St. Paul mine for a week, al
most to an hour, were brought to
the surface alive.
The story of the sufferings of the
miners and the heroism of their re
sourceful leaders is one of the most
thrilling in all the black history of
mining disasters.
Dawn broke with the bearers of
stretchers moving, from the pit
month to the tent which served as
a morgue with bodies swollen and
scorched almost beyond human
semblance. Forty of them had
been brought up, and most of them
deutined, when the marvelous re
port shot through the prostrate
community:
"They've found them alive!
They've found them alive 1 They've
found them alive!"
In a moment the morgue was de
serted, scarcely to be revisited,
while the crowd, tairly insane with
the great hope that had sprung
ike a miraculous flame from the
ashes of despair, rushed to the pit.
AU thought was of the men' who
were alive. Each time the signal
sounded from the hoist for the cage
to come up from the mine the noise
of the crowd subsided into murm
urs of expectancy.
"Here they comehow: look sharp:'
A woman here and there who
could not see, held up a child and
cantioued it; "Look aud try if
you can see papa when they pass."
The machinery stopped. The
cage was up. mere stood the re
scuers, wearing shiny rubby coats
and white caps. Between them,
wrapped in military blankets, they
held the rescued men, some stand
ing, others carried in arms. Slowly
the procession moved. A burst of
applause started from the crowd,
but a raised hand from the militia
men brought silence.
It was a critical moment. Moth
ers and wives stretched forth their
arms, Andy, are you therel" Speak
to me, I am here."
The blankets drawn over the
heads of the men hid their faces
and prevented identification from
the crowd. Not receiving a reply,
the womeu tore toward the sleep
ing cars, imploring and begging
anyone to give them good news.
Overoomr by appeals, a rescurer
called out the name of the man he
was escorting. "George Eddy,"
he shouted, "we've got George
Eddy here."
"Ob, George," came a woman's
piercing cry from the crowd. ''Is
it you! Is it yout Come here George,
here; I am waiting for you."
Eddy, who wasa mine inspector,
was too weak to reply, and would
only submit to the escort, who car
ried him silently to the car.
At the foot of the car steps the
crowd was kept back and women,
almost hysterical, cluug to the
handrails, piteously imploring
those inside to let them enter.
A dramatic moment came when
William Clelland was brought up.
At the news of the disaster a week
ago, Robert, a brother and also a
miner, came here from South Wil
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him a severe cold that settled on his
lungs. At last he had to give np
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mington,' III. He was informed on
his arrival that all the entombed
men were , dead. He offered his
help as a rescuer and declared he
would remain here until everybody
was brought up. Today he was in
the rescuing party. As the survi
vors were brought through the
gallery to the hoisting shaft wrap
ped in blankets Robert assisted
them into the cage.
In the first load that weut up
was some one whom Robert did
not recognize. The survivors were
put in the sleeping car under the
care of nurses and doctors and Rob
ert went down the shaft for an
other load. He was coming out of
the cage when a friend stepped up
aud tapped him on the shoulder.
"Bob, don't you know that Will
is upl" he asked. Robert turned
pale and staggered,.
"You don't mean "
"Yes, alive. He's up alive.
Why Bob, you brought him your-
self,wrapped in blankets."
Robert was so overwhelmed and
overwrought that he had to be re
lieved from the rescue work aud
was himself taken into the sleep-
car.
In a little four-room cottage Mrs
George 8ubacus became the envied
of all at nightfall, for her husband
was the first to be taken home
Subacus aod his brother John
were among the first survivors to
reach the surface.
In a bedroom off the combination
dining room.and kitchen lay Sub
acus on the bed, his three young
sters, the oldest 4 years old, peer
ing at his blackened face and arms
A Catholic sister was present to
that the patient, bolstered up
apparently by all the pillows in
house, did not over eat.
The mother of William Hynes
lad of 22, was standing at the
mouth of the mine when ,the first
men came up. Some one ran over
to her aud said her boo, whom shel
had given up for dead, was still
alive and would be brought up
soon. The woman dropped to her
knees on the ground and prayed
aloud her thanks to God. Another
bystander told her a mistake had
been made and her boy was dead
The mother screamed and fell back
in a swoon from which it is feared
she will not recover. Within 10
minutes William Hynes was
brought ont alive and well,
After the first rescued men had
been taken to a sleeping car in the
care of physicians Dr. Crawford
iu charge of them, saw a lad of 10
years standing outside the car look
ing disconsolate. The doctor ap
proached the lad and struck by the
grief written in the boy-'s face
asked him whom he was waiting
for.
"I ain't waiting for nobody,'
replied the lad. "My father is
dead in the mine and my mother is
awful sick."
Asked what his name was, the
lad said Burton Waite, and he
dashed into the car when told that
his father, Frank Waite, was alive
and not 20 feet away. The lad
threw his arms about his father's
neck aud sobbed for joy. Just
then the sun broke through the
clouds for the first time today and
the father cried out; "Hod, i am
glad I am alive and have got my
boy."
Joseph Pigatti and his brother
Giacoma were the first two men
brought up. They were being
hurfied to the sleeping errs where
physicians were iu attendance and
there Pigatti saw his wile and child
ren standing in the crowd. De
spite his weakened condition he
leaped past the people standing
about and gathered them in his
arms and all four dropped upon
the ground and kissed the feet of
their rescuers, sobbing out their
gratitude.
One man asked only to see his
wife and children he did not
want food, he said: another beg
ged for a glass of beer, while a
third scorned food, but remarked:
'Lord, how I wish I had a cigar
ette."
Doctors declare that the minds
of many of them had evidently
been temporarily unbalanced by
the horrors they have faced. Re
scuers reported that when they
dug through the barrier in the
ond level aod the 21 men came
scrambling and fighting each other
to get through the passage, the re
scued men laughed hysterically
and made jokes about their long
siege underground while waiting
for the cage to take them up.
Rescuers were seut down into
the mine at once but came up to
get oxygen helmets, saying they
could hear men calling to them bot
could not stand the gases or the
stencn of the bodies of dead mules
n the second level.
With the rescuers on the return
trip went Father Henry of Mendo-
ta, a Catholic priest. He had don
ned the clothes of a miner and
went down to give absolution to
all of those Catholics who might be
dying.
ine work oi rescuiug these men
was taken charge by D. E. Powell,
superintendent of the Braceville
mine, and B. C. Maxwell, chief
engineer of the St. Paul Mine
company. For six hours without
relief of any sort Maxwell stood in
one spot and directed the efforts of
the rescuers, despite the black
which threatened all of the rescuers
The rescuers found two parties of
entombed men still living. All
were on the second level in the
funnel and near the stop where the
21 men had been taken out earlier.
The rescuers were attracted by
rappings on the walls of the tun
nels, and following them they came
upon a barricade. Their signals
were answered immediately and
they started to dig.
Despite their affected jauntiness
when they were rescued the faces
of most of the survivors plainly tell
the story of their sufferings. A
week ago William Clelland's hair
was a dark brown tonight it is a
silver gray. He was almost too
weak to walk until a childish voice
called his name through the win
dow of the sleeping car, when he
was strong enough to reach out and
gather his two children into his
arms. His 6 -year-old son Will and
his 8 year-old daughter Frances
perched on his knees and the first
thing Willie said was, "Papa, did
you get your dinner!"
At midnight a small fire broke
out in the mine, cutting off the re
scue work. Fire apparatus was
lowered and a stream of water
:ain tnrned into the mine. The
fire appeared to be spreading and
the heat grew more intense. R. E
Maxwell, a miuing engiueer in the
rescue party, was overcame and
had to be hurriedly brought to the
surface.
Cherry, 111., Novw 20 Graphic
stories of their hardships and how
they fought to stave off starvation
and suffocation were told tonight
by the rescued men. William
Clelland, who is credited by most
of the survivors with having saved
their lives, appeared none the
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worse for his experience after he
had partaken of a little food.
Many of the survivors told of the
impromptu prayer meeting con
ducted by William Clelland some
time before they were rescued.
When the men were in despair and
ready to giue up the fight Clelland
started to sing a hymn. He is a
Scotchman, a Presbyterian and a
deeply religious man. His hymn
was taken up at once by his com
panions.
The hymn was "Abide With
Me." and the walled prison of the
entombed men rang with the melody
Encouraged by the way the hymn
had cheered the men he sang an
other and still another, the meu
joining at once. After singing for
an hour there was was a silence
and then in that subterranean tun
nel Clelland preached a little ser
mon. He took no text but urged
the men to pray God that they
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that confronted them. Then he
prayed and all of his fellow prison
ers joined him and within 24 hours
they were all free men.
Chery, 111., Nov. 21.-Twenty
saved, 92 known dead and 198
missing was the record at the St.
Paul mine tonieht. Ten dead
were brought to the surface today
and 37 more dead were located in
the second level, but were not
brought upon account of black
damp.
What had promised to be Cher
ry's real day of thanksgiving end
ed in a night oi hope deferred, or
despair.
Tonight no living man or boy
had been added to the list of 20 re
scued yesterday.
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