The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, February 20, 1925, Image 6
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COM.INS' HOin KlU \ I)
fl.id Hern Trapped In (live For
St'M'nlwn I>ays
('iivc <;!y. Kv.. F*-l>. Mi. ( K> I a*
Associated I'lTsh.) The -'! u
j.:le iwied. Mo*hcr Farth. ;11"11 ;
clinging yinily and in death' U>
Floyd ("oliir > for more than .M-Ven-.
teen day ., finally -ui rend* 1? d at
2:hr> oYlm k ? I hi* :tf trinmm and with
out waininu opened ? iu\ h.*ie Im
tWeill a resr'ue >lial; tend the nature!
toirih el the rave explorer. t
Peeri'T d'>*.vn tii:v s inv !Y?-ure* tnl..t
Sand ' ;t\>. tin- brave worker** who
had wajifit m lci'ipi i' * >mb:U with
the natural t"?v fit Jfn- enrtrt, saw
that what ;he\ :: ad lounh'. '<>* hat.I
lor had Iv**r? !<>-t
I'ollins u;b dead.
i'.:' ? hvy will reclaim?b+s-body,
*.;i;\ ' > I. s'.iiU' it again to the rug
i h !''< iu' ioamed a- a ; ?uth and
0 plore i as a man
" i liai:k they've foun i him."
1 hi- \vu ? Lcr 1. oilins' -ingle ?taK*->
iim! 11 r his boy had been found.
A >!atemcnt. signed by the
h.yv nu n v. ho had led scores of
?s t > in tin.' long fight, told of.
and paid tribute t-.? their
:h>' --{ant
After desci ibinu tin break' through
the root* of Sand Cum- and the
preliminary investigation of it by
Albir; Marshal', the statement said:
"II:-. game little partner* Kd.
l!:i nner, of Cincinnati, whose work
has been very conspicuous and of
uniold value by reason of his small
?:Muic and great strength and iron
nerve, wi nt down head foremost
i
I into this hazardous pit, and with a
IiKrht closely examined the face, and
position of the man who wc under
stood is Floyd Collins, and called
up U? Mr. Carmichne!, five feet abow
. him, that- the man was culi and ap
parently dead."
Dr. William Tfazlctt, of Chicago,
and -Dr. C. 1*. Francis, of Howling
Green, Ky., announced later that
Cullins had been dead more than
t wenty-four . hours.
Fioyd * uilins had Detn a cave
c.splojer siia'e he Was a boy. He
.va< li trn on a farm five miles from
Sand Cave, where the Collins family
live.*, and as nearly as his father
. an remember, Floyd has seldom
b'. i n away from the cave country.
When just big enough to handle
a plow, the mule one day sank to
his knees in what has since been.
known as Mule Cave* and Floyd's
cave enthusiasm whs started. Mule
Cave never developed into anything
which would attract tourists hut
Floyd wa? determined to find a
cavern wliieh would.
Three times before this experienc*?,
Collins was caught in cave. Once
while exploring new crevices, in
Crystal Cave, he .was wedged in, a
crevice and Johnnie Gerald pulled
Him cut. When he w'as first explor
ing Crystal Cave/ an earth slide cut
him off from the -Outside but he dug
his \lay through. Ivarlier in hte
<'r,vc explorations he was held half
the niuht in a c.'evicc in a cliff,
.ah Ordien river, but managed to i
Work: him.sclf loose.
A fe w years afte r -Mule < ave wa < i
<;?:. ovcied Ed. Turner, a civil engi
n, r. lyom New Vork,w spent eight to i
U n months .exploring the cave coun
; ;tv,r.'nd taught Floyd the eli?meiWur\
;;-,uoiogy he found Useful.< Ik-twt'vii
them .they located an onyx caVe,
which also was inconsequential, and
in Salt Cave, they found an* Indian
moccasin, one of the prized souvenirs
of the region.
Hy this time, he had started spend
?114; his. spare time after farm duties
in cave hunting. Lee Collins, his
father, had taken up trapping and
in the hitter winter of ID 17, Floyd
saw a groundhog disappear into a
"sink" 011 his father's farm. This
led to the discovery of Crystal Cave,
one of the lesser caves of the region.
Floyd spent many days working
in the snow enlarging the opening
down which the groundhog disap
peared and finally opened the tun
nel sufficiently to permit access in
comfort in the main cavern. "Floyd
k-ept me reared stiff all the time,"
his father sai<l. "I told him that
some day he would be. buried deeper
than ever 1 could bury him, but Ik;
kept on exploring."
For three weeks Floyd had been
working 011 Sand Cave, his father
said.
Evidences oi lires built in Sand
Cave by Floyd were found by the
first rescue parties, showing he ? had
jried to. dry it out as he worked.
The knowledge that he was work
ing on Sand Cave led to his dis
covery about twenty-four hours aftei
lie was trapped by the fall of a boul
der on his foot. Otherwise buried
sixty feet under ground, he might
have remained hidden forever. On
his last trip down Sand Cave he had
taktn along seventy-two feet of rope
with which to lower himself into the
huge cavern- he said lay behind him.
Some' of those among the earlier
rescuers who talked with Floyd said
he described his ' new found cavern
as "the most beautiful I have, evet
seen."
Geological experts and old resi
dents say Floyd's Sand Cave tunnel
is the remnant of ft greater cavern
which once occupied the spot where
the little ravine leads down to the
mouth of Sand Cave. Many years
Scene at Kentucky'** 'orea* Cavg Drama
^ Civilians and militia at work at
the mouth of Spnd Cave, Ky., in
the elfort to rescue or recover the
body of Floyd Collins, trapped
first in a narrow cavern by a Slid
ing boulder for a full week, then
sealed in by a cave-m as rescue
seemed certain.? Insert is a recent
picture of Floyd Collins, made dur
ing one of this previous explora
tions. More than 5000 people
visited the scene the second Sun
day of his imprisonment, finally
going into a great hillside meeting.
singing and prayinj for .us rev.. .-, t
ago ^ r >? .apsed.
Al:i-. u;,rh the nut'st for Collins had
cmkd in locating his body, the tired
miners, saddened by the realization
that the man they tried so hard to
save was dead turned, heavy-hearted,
l.' the still dangerous task of recov
ering hi?; body.
IIwi; - of digging remain ahead of
' !\m before they can remove Col
iin.s f'.om his tightly wedged posi
t i<m iii t he narrow passage to Sand
Cave.
W hen, finally, they have brought
him from his tomb. Collins* body
will be consigned to a grave in the
cave, after funeral services under
*ne high dome of Crystal Cave, which
itself stands as a monument to the
man.
The "monument" to the rescue
workers, however, will be torn down
by the hands that built it. The
rescue shaft will be dynamited aj'tei
Collins' body has been removed.
"It is dangerous place and we j
do not want any one else trapped
:n there," said Mr. Carmichael, in
charge of the excavation.
Collins was trapped by a falling
boulder, in Sand Cave at 10 o'clock
Friday morning, January 30. His
plight was discovered twenty-four
hours later and there then began a
great fight against nature to rescue
him.
Heart breaking disappointment was
encountered repeatedly by the work
ers as nature dumped one hazard
yfter another into their paths.
At last, however, man's perserver
anee won and the limestone, roof of
Sand Cave collapsed today under the
weight of the .miners and dropped
them into the natural passage, be
tween where Collins was trapped and
a "squeeze" which closed the nat
ura! passage some ten days ago
Hut their indomitable struggle to
sink a shaft to save him was in
vain.
There, his eyes sunken, Collins lay.
The man the rescuers had worked so
hard and so long to save had paid
with his life for his search for the
earth's underground treasures.
I h?.' continuously dripping water
was not sufficient to keep Collins
alive, the physicians said. His jaw
was in a state of tension when found.
( armichael, who had been in com
mand of the heroic volunteers ex
pressed his admiration of the unsel
fish and unceasing labor of the men
"from the lowliest water boy to the
man who was about to receive his
A. H. degree," he said this experi
em v ha* ?t lengthened his faith in
human nature and that he had found
the men were "09 per cent pure
gold."
"After twenty odd years of con
struction work, 1 have never seen
a trroup :,f unorganized men do work
*? well and quickly," sa.d Mr. Car
michael.
Late tonight miners continued to
timbir up the lateral tunnel and
en.arge the passageway to Collins,
- > thai, his body could he removed.
Officials said it might take thirty
six hours as the work would lack
the firry energy which has driven
the rescue crew constantly for eleven
days.
Preliminary plans to hold an in
quest at the mouth of Sand Cave
were made this evening. It probably
will be six hours, however, before!
til# i ?
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i.'!! E A I'EST?
Farmers who used Congaree Fertilizers made
away above the average crop last year
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TERIALS AND Wil l. MAKE A CROP IF ANYTHING WILL. ASK ANY FAR
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(INCORPORATED)
enlarged sufficiently to permit u fir.st
hand medical examination. Physician-,
then will crawl to Colling and deter
mine if possible when he died.
As soon as the body can be brought
to the shaft, T. C. Turner, magistrate
for District No. 0 will assume charge
of it. The. body will be brought to
the surface and another, examination
will be held for record purposes.
Turner said a jury might be em
paneled at the cave, and the inquest
completed on the scene of the fa
tality.
A local committee will take charge
of the body after the inquest and
it will lie in state in the gymnasium
of the Cave City High School for.
one day. ~
Stdve Rogers, former jailor of An
derson county, trie J and convicted oil
charges of assault and battery with
intent to kill, has been sentenced to
serve four years on the county works.
Poison mixed with medicines at the ?
free dispensary of the Ohio state
university at Columbus, Ohio, prob- .
ably -by some "crank" is given a.s
the cause of,the death of two students
at that institution the first of last
week. ?
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