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  • Rescued PA Miners Recount Ordeal (***PICTURES***)

    07/28/2002 4:10:52 PM PDT · by Alouette · 88 replies · 1,464+ views
    AP ^ | July 28, 2002 | Larry Neumeister
    SOMERSET, Pa. (AP) - The nine coal miners who were rescued from a cramped, flooded shaft Sunday decided early in their 77-hour ordeal that they would "live or die as a group," tying themselves together so all their bodies would be found if they drowned. They also scrawled last messages to loved ones as they huddled together to keep warm 240 feet below the Earth's surface. "I didn't think I was going to see my wife and kids again," a teary-eyed Blaine Mayhugh told reporters, hours after being pulled out of the Quecreek Mine in western Pennsylvania. He, his father-in-law...