RAPPINGS TELL OF MINERS YET ALIVE Belief is now Entertained that 25 or 30 More Men May be Rescued 30 DEAD NOW TAKEN OUT Five Men Rescued On Monday Night Were Well Despite Three Day Imprisonment BRICEVILLE, Tenn, Dec. 12. Seven more bodies were taken fiom the mine here today, bringing the total number of dead recovered up to 30. With five men taken out alive hope was revived that all of the entombed men might not be dead. Rescuers reported that rappings had been heard in other parts of the mines and estimated that 25 or 30 men are still alive. Every effort is being made to reach them. Miners today charged that the mine was not properly sprinkled, making the explosion of coal dust possible. The mules and sprinkling wagons could not enter the rooms and dust was ankle deep, they assert. The rescued men had been in the mine 61 1-2 hours. All they had to eat were the meager lunches taken in with them Saturday morning. To assuage their thirst they were compelled to drink the putrid water in the mule trenches. There were originally seven in the party, Thomas Henderson, and his son Milton, Irwin Smith, Arthur Scott, Dori Irish, John Duff and Arthur Smith. Saturday night a disagreement as to what they should do arose. Duff and Arthur Smith decided to try to fight their way out. They have not been seen since. Irish died from injuries and there were four living and one dead man behind the barricade. Monday they found the air was fresh and started walking, They left chalk marks on the walls which were found by rescuers and resulted in their being saved. Six shifts of rescue men were working today in hopes of recovering more alive. The rappings heard last night have ceased but additional chalk marks indicate men are alive and wardering somewhere in the deep drifts They are all married and their wives had almost given up hope of ever seeing any of them alive. Immediately after the explosion, the men rushed to cross entry No. 19, where they quickly threw up a brattice that kept out the black damp, that killed many of their fellow workmen. They took their lunch pails with them and subsisted for three days and two nights on what they expected to make their Saturday noon meal. News that live miners had been found spread quickly through the town, and relatives and other men who had been standing vigil at the mine's mouth until all hope was gone, rushed again to the scene and soon ropes, stretched to hold back all but workers, were being strained by the throng of anxious watchers. A new cemetery is being provided for the victims. It is on a hill near the mouth of the mine, and volunteers started to dig graves. They are being arranged in a circle, in the center of which it is expected a monument will be raised. All afternoon the grave diggers worked in a rain that changed the streets of the hamlet to mud puddles and added to the gloom of the inhabitants. Wails of women and children came from the houses. Sandusky Star Journal, Sandusky, Ohio, Dec. 12, 1911