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The Daily Dispatch: August 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Six days in an inundated coal pit. (search)
Six days in an inundated coal pit. On the 16th, a coal bit at Kelvineide, near Glasgow, was inundated. Several persons were drowned; but on the 21st, three of the soldiers — John Johnson, Thomas Cairney, and Michael Daley — were rescued alive. The Glasgow Herald gives the following account of the marvellous circumstances under which these men escaped death: The three men had, not been more than five minutes in the pit when the accident occurred, but they did not discover it for several hours. They then proceeded down the sloping side to the edge of the water, which was now, however, forcing its way into the upper working. They retreated, and proceeded along the passage till they had again reached the level part of its course, and went down the opposite slope. The water was forcing its way up that side, also — not pure water, but a putrid, stinking flood, that made them almost recoil. The poor fellows found themselves thus walled in between the two floods, forty fa<