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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1925
FLOYD COLLINS FOUND DEAD
WHEN REACHED BY RESCUERS
Cave Explorer Discovered Monday Afternoon
After Seventeen Days of Effort to Release
Him From His Prison.
Cave City Ky., Feb. 16.—The long mand of the heroic volunteers, ex-
st niggle is'ended. Mother Earth,! pressed his admiration of the unsel-
after clinging grimly and in death to fish and unceasing labor of the men
Flovd Collins, for more than 17 days, | “from the lowliest waterboy to the
finally surrendered at 2:45 o’clock this j man who was^about to receive his A.
SEtEHT EGGS VERY
CAREFULLY FOR
. STRONG CHICKS
afternoon and, without warning, open-j B. degree.’.' He said this experience
ed a tinv hole between a rescue shaft, had strengthened his faith in human
and the natural tomb of the cave ex- nature and that he had found the men
were “99 per cent pure gold.”
“After 20-odd years of construction
By C. A. LOVELL
- Thru Autocaster- Service
About half the eggs set each year
do not hatch—and about half the
chicks that are hatched die in the
first few days or weeks.
Part of the story of this year’s
poultry experience was written when
the breeding stock was hatched and
while it was being raised. That
was last year, or the year be
fore. It is in the present moment,
however, that the eggs are being pro
duced, with every egg a potential
chick, dependent in a large measure
work, I have never seen a group °f 1 f or jt 3 success or failure in life upon
The Nose Knows
oss: “I’m smoking a terrible lot
of cigars these days.”
Stenog: “I’ll say ydb are—if that’s
one of them.”
plorer.
Peering down this tiny fissure into
Sand cave, the. brave workers, who
had waged an unequal combat with! unorganized men do work so well and , the ^in^g that happen to the egglbe-
ai v,ii f/wwiAQ PATtH- srw : rviiinL 1 \t 99 GAifl C"!n.wmcliRfel. I incut)&tion t)0^ins
the natural forces of the earth, saw j quickly,” said Mr. Carmichael
that what they had fought so hard j “These volunteer laborers, ranging
for had been lost. Collins was dead. ! f 10 m small boys to old men, have each
But they will reclaim his body, only | given every ounce of his strength to
to restore it again to the rugged hills his duty,” he added,
he roamed as a youth and explored ’ “Out of the hundreds that volun
as a man.
“Thank God, they’ve found him.”
This was Lee Collins’ single state
ment after his boy had been found.
A terse statement, signed by the
three men who had led scores of oth
ers in the long fight, told of the result
and paid tribute to their assistants.
After describing the break through
the roof of Sand Cave and the prelim
inary investigation of it by Albert
Marshall, the statement said:
“His game little partner, Ed Bren
ner of Cincinnati, whose work has
been very conspicuous and of untold
value by reason of his small stature
and great strength and iron nerve,
went down head foremost into this
hazardous pit and, with a light, close
ly examined the face and position of
the man, who, we understood, is Floyd
Collins, and called up to Mr. Carmi
chael, five feet above him, that the
man was cold and apparently dead.
Only in exceptional cases should
young pullets be used to produce
hatching eggs. Year old hens are bet
ter. A mature hen can transmit more
stamina and vitality to the germ
within each egg than can a pullet.
tee red and worked for me they were
^‘‘Th’e shaWwork^was started a week 1 T 00 » h »" ld ^ ‘voided
ago last Thursday at 1:30 o'clock in f ° r th « °PP» slte re “ son -. Age brln * s
the afternoon and only five ounces of on a ,0i,s °* Vl & 0r -
dynamite was used in driving the I The eggs that are to be set should
shaft a depth of 60 feet. It was, all be gathered frequently. When the
done by pick and shovel.” j hen deposits an egg and leaves the
Late tonight miners continued to, nest the temperature starts to drop.
timber up the lateral and enlarge the drop is very * reat the tiny
passageway to Collins; so that his bit of life may be weakened, or even
j body could be removed. Officials said killed outright.
it might take 36 hours, as the work i Temperature is all-important. At
would lack the fiery energy which has 68 degrees the germ begins to develop,
driven the rescue crew constantly for. hence the eggs should be kept some
A Dirty Knock
Cynic: “What do you think of this
column of humor you are now read
ing?”
Diplomat: “Well, I would say that
anyone with fever blisters and crack
ed lips could read it without fear of
pain.”
count in a bank that had plenty of
money.
Yea, Indeed
Cross-worder: ‘‘Give me a ten let
ter word meaning a country without
any women in it.”
Smart Guy: “That’s easy—Stagna
tion.”
Answer to
Week’s Puztle
The Cat
Beth: “How is Fred? ahahmm
Beth: “How is Fred, your sweetie,
these days?”
’’Gladys: “Wonderful.”
Beth: “I’m glad to know some one
thinks so.’
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Financial Suggestion
Hubby: “Dear, you’ll have to give
up that idea of a new spring suit
this month. Money at the bank is
awfully low,”
Newlywed: “I know you are a good
business man, honey bunch—but if I
were you, I’d certainly put our ac-
New Way to Quickly
Stop Worst Cough
11 days.
From the early days of the cave
what below that point. Below 55 it is
too cold. The range of temperature
man’s entrapment down through the i should be between 55 and 65 degrees,
days that followed, there was waged ; since beyond either of these points
a great struggle with nature and the j losses creep in to rob the poultry
elements. Friends and neighbors ' raiser of the fruits of his toil.
There is only one way to know
temperature absolutely and that is by
the use of a reliable thermometer.
rushed to his aid and time after time
rescue parties went into the narrow,
l)t , crooked passage and wormed their,
The bulletin was signed by Brig, way along its slimy course to where | The man or woman does not live who
Gen. H. H. Denhardt, H. T. Carmichael j he was imprisoned. Their efforts to can K uess temperature accurately
and M. E. S. Posey.
A remarkable new and simple
method for treating a cough gives
relief with the first doses and usual
ly - breaks a severe cough in 24
hours
The treatment Is based on the
prescription known as Dr. King's
New Discovery for Coughs. You
take just one teaspoonful and hold
It in your throat for 15 or 20 sec
onds before swallowing, without
following with water. The prescrip
tion has a double action. It not
only soothes and heals sorenpse and
Irritation, but it quickly loosens
and removes the phlegm and con
gestion which are the direct ctuut
of the coughing. People have been
astonished how quickly the cough-
ed wit* this new treat
ing
mentl^anST the whole cough condi-
igh <
tlon goes in a very Short time.
The prescription Is for coughs^
chest colds, hoarseness, bronchitis
spasmodic croup, etc. It Is excellent
for children as well as grownups—
no harmful drugs. Economical, too.
as the dose is only one teaspoonful*
At all good druggists Ask for ^
Dr. William Hazlett of Chicago and
Dr. C. E. Francis of Bowling Green,
Ky., announced later that, from infor
mation they had obtained, Collins had
been dead more than 24 hours.
Although the quest for Collins had
ended in locating his body, the tired
miners, saddened by the realization
that the man they tried so hard to
get him out were unavailing and oth- enough, while a thermometer that
ers from the outside came in. i does not register properly may give a
Miners from the nearby coal fields °J
and from the asphalt mines of the
The limit of time for keeping hatch-
Kentucky Rock” Asphalt" company i* a ^ Ut tW ° 'Tf' 18 ;
truck, Ky., flocked to the rescue. , be3t r ' sults the > r should "ot be kept
o \tr r t?- u *. d 'more than one week, a fresh egg al-
Gov. W. J. Fields sent Mr. Posey' , . ’ . ,
ways producing a more vigorous and
healthy chick. This does not mean
to the scene as his personal repre
sentative. State troops followed, c
little handful of them at first, and
save was dead, turned heavy hearted, then General Denhardt, commander of
to the still dangerous task of recover- the Seventy-fifth infantry brigade,
ing his body. i was ordered to take supreme command
that three-weeks’-old eggs will never
hatch. But if they do the chicks from
such eggs are handicapped at the
start. It is such chicks that run up
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Hours of' digging remain ahead of of the situation. The resources of the the high mortality notedjn the open-
them before they can remove Collins state >-ere thrown behind the rescue 10 Turn “fh^egga ^asionaHy while
from his tightly wedged position in efforts. • ——
Dr. W. K. Funkhouser of the l T ni-
they are being held awaiting the
ihe <start batching operation. Once
the narrow passage to Sand cave.
When, finally they have brought versity of Kentucky, came in a
him from his tomb, Collins' body will state's geologist and Mr Carmichael ' n J gg „ eU £ toward J shell and
be consigned to a grave near the cave, ff" 6 ” 1 ? UP L u‘ jl "’ | if left too long in one position it may
after funeral services under the nigh Kyrock, who had come here as an , dh t th i awe t :_ t Th resu i t
, r u:„v itsel f individual, joined forces with the state aanere at ine 1( * west point, ine result
dome of Crystal cave, which
stands as a monument to
the manJ and was put in charge of the rescue l^‘ k be a " e » k - cri I'P l « i or dead
1 here, amidst its stalagmites and operations. . It is not a good plan to keep too
stalactites, his funeral will he held. j Meantime, the unorganized efforts n^y j n same basket The
The “mowwnent” to the rescue | of ‘ individuals to drag CollinS out shell seems very dense, but as a mat-
workers, however, will be torn down [ through the natural tunnel had been j ter 0 f f act j s porous B ot h
by the hands that built it. The rescue replaced by an organized forfe.
shaft will be dynamited after Ccllins’j But this force was unequal to the
body has been removed. . task of overcoming one obstacle after i
“It is a dangerous place and we do 1 another-.that was placed m the way
air
and moisture can pass. through. Pil
ing up the eggs so that the air sup
ply is cut off contributes to the dis
appointments of hatching day. In
net ”‘"1 any one else trapped in of those who tried to save the trapped st( , ad of baskc ts, use shallow trdys,
there, said Mr. Carmichael, m charge explorer. I just deep enough for a single layer of
of the excavation. I Nature had laid its trap in the first
The size of the eg^s used for hatch
Collins was trapped by a falling place so that no one could get to it. 1
boulder in Sand cave at 10 Vck'-k Collins was in the narrow passage be-
Friday morning, January 30. His tween the rescuers and the rock that
plight was discovered 24 hours later held him down. When hopes
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uniform, neither too large nor too!;
...... .. . w f^ e ‘small. Two ounces is looked upon as I;
and there then began a great fight high that they soon could get to the the stam j a rd weight.
against nature to rescue him. ! boulder, a cave-in closed the passage-} ma y
A small egg
Heart-breaking disappointment the way. This was cleared away, only to | ' C “^
workers encountered repeatedly, as have an mtpenetrable one dumped into ; th h t0 maturit thf , |lcts
nature dumped one hazard after an- the crevtce, completely cuttmg off the | am0 „ them wil , be , ikel ^ ^ un
other into their paths. i prisoner from the crevice. A shaft
At last, tyowever, man’s persever- was started a few feet from the
ance won and the limestone roof of, mouth of the cave and for 11 days
Sand cave collapsed today under the workers slowly dug their way toward
weight of the miners and dropped the cave. Time after time, just when
them into the natural passage, be-1 they believed the end of their long
tween where Collins was trapped and fight was at hand, nature played
a “squeeze” which closed the natural another trump and delayed the day
passage some ten days ago. But their! when Collins was to be found. Today,
indomintable struggle to sink a shaft however, while the miners kept dig-
to save him was in vain. I ging away, the break came and at last
There, his eyes sunken, Collins lay. j revealed the victim.
The man the rescuers had worked so ! Preliminary plans to hold an in-
hard and so long to save had paid quest at the mouth of Sand cave were
with his life for his search for the made this evening. It probably will
earth’s underground treasures. j be six hours, however, before the pas-
The continuously dripping water sageway to Collins can be enlarged
was not sufficient to keep Collins sufficiently to permit a first hand
alive, the physicians said. His jaw medical'examination. Physicians ^hen
* was in a state of tension when found. { will crawl to Collins and determine,
Carmichael, who had been in com- if possible, when he died.
dersized eggs, and small eggs are not
wanted by the markets.
Only clean eggs are fit incu
bate. Dirt stops the pores in the shell
and hinders ventilation. Washed eggs
are worse, even, than the dirty eggs,
since the washing makes it practically
certain the egg will not hatch.
Gather hatching eggs frequently,
select those of uniform size from
healthy breeding stock, keep them in
a well ventilated room at a tempera
ture between 55 and 65 degrees, turn
them once daily, set them before they
are a week old.
Do these things and the counting
of one’s chicks both before and after
hatching is a more enjoyable proce
dure.
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ward Long officiating, and * with a
large gathering of frifends and rela
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one of the most beloved women of the
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