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...their fear, they suffered hallucinations: once, both thought they saw two men with them in the cavern; Fellin and Throne called for a light and the men vanished. Another time they saw a door rimmed in blue light, with marble steps behind. At one point Throne screamed: "Davy, I'm going home! I'm going alone if you don't want to come." They drank brackish, sulphurous water, ate the bark off timbers that had been used to shore up the roof...
After five days, rescue workers finally succeeded in drilling a small hole to the trapped miners. A microphone was lowered, and Fellin and Throne crawled toward it, crying: "Here we come! Here we come!" But at that very moment, when they thought their rescue was imminent, their ordeal was less than half over...
...pass through it. In trying to drill a shaft wide enough, the rescuers ran into endless, maddening failures. While families and friends of the trapped miners, along with more than 200 newsmen, gathered around in agonized vigil, the rescue team's drill bit deeper toward Fellin and Throne. With every turn of that drill the danger increased that the rescue efforts would cave in what remained of the roof of that underground, pick-hewn grotto in which Fellin, Throne and, surely not too many feet away, Lou Bova, had been trapped...
...drill bit nuzzled through the underground prison's rooftop. Now the diameter of the rescue shaft had to be widened to 18 in. Then on the 14th day, down through that shaft came two pairs of coveralls, to which parachute harnesses had been sewed. Fellin and Throne wordlessly put on the costumes, smeared each other with grease that had also been lowered to them. Throne went first, attaching his harness to a line from a hoist on the surface. A few minutes later Dave Fellin surfaced, bearded, grizzly and happy, singing: "She'll be comin' round...
Another Sound. To the townsfolk, Fellin and Throne were heroes. Indeed, to men everywhere, their indomitable will to survive was the stuff of which legends are made. But toward week's end, the wreathed smiles began turning to grim criticisms. Fellin complained that he and Throne could have been saved in five days, not 14, if only the rescuers had gone properly about their business. In turn, Pennsylvania's Deputy Secretary of Mines Gordon Smith, who directed rescue operations around the clock, leveled a blast at Fellin. "The miners in this operation," said he, "were removing pillars...