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Whatever role today's anxieties and media play, the terror and fascination of entombment tap into something primal. To be trapped underground is to be not just in danger but separated from the world of the living. What is underground? It is where the dead are buried. It is where cultures have placed the underworld in their eschatology, where souls are judged and the wicked rent by monsters, boiled in oil or raked by demons over flaming coals...
...mourners organized a candlelight vigil for the 12 coal miners who died following Monday's underground explosion, leaders of the company that owns the troubled mine held a press conference and described the mishaps that resulted in the false report of the mens' survival. Yet while company officials spent an hour and a half explaining what went wrong-and apologizing for the miscommunications-they wouldn't answer a question at the heart of the tragedy: why did the number of safety violations at the mine nearly triple since their firm, International Coal Group (ICG), bought the Sago mine and reopened...
...outraged family members, the delay was a tinderspark that ignited a fury against the company. "I was disgusted," said Christine Yocum, whose cousin David Lewis died underground. "I understand you can't get perfect reception under a mountain. But when they learned there was a problem, they should have announced it immediately...
...three ecstatic hours the people of Upshur County, W. Va., believed another miracle in the mines had occurred. How else could 12 men trapped underground, in an airless mine shaft, survive for almost two days? ?We?re just completely overjoyed,? said Lynette Roby, a resident of Sago, W. Va. She waited at 1:30 a.m. on a muddy road in the rain to catch a glimpse of the rescued miners through ambulance windows...
...into the Sago Baptist church and announced that there were 12 survivors. Hundreds of people surged out the door. Church bells rang. For a brief spell, it appeared, there would be a repeat of the stunning 2002 rescue of nine Pennsylvania miners, who had survived more than three days underground after their mine had flooded...