Families say 12 W.Va. miners found alive!

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

The Associated Press
Published Wednesday, January 4, 2006
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TALLMANSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) - Twelve miners caught in an explosion in a coal mine were found alive Tuesday night, more than 41 hours after the blast, family members said.

Bells at a church where relatives had been gathering rang out as family members ran out screaming in jubilation.

Relatives were yelling "They're alive!"

One miner was found dead earlier Tuesday, the mine's owner, International Coal Group Inc. said.

Neither the company nor the govenor's office immediately confirmed the news.

There were hugs and tears among the crowd outside the Sago Baptist Church loacted near the mine, about 100 miles northeast of Charleston...



http://www.islandpacket.com/24hour/nation/story/3033238p-11728469c.html

[Wilber_Stool]

1. Hot damn!!!!

[havocmom]

2. CNN site carrying the AP breaking news in their banner

http://www.cnn.com/
Pu-leeze let this be accurate!

[spooky3]

3. yahoo link

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060104/ap_on_re_us/mine_explosion

[patricia92243]

4. Wonderful news. I'm watching CNN, and it is truly miraculous that they h

have been found alive. Great, great news for their families.

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

5. Truly great news, and it's hitting so many online papers and cites

that it must be true.

Yay!!

:applause: :applause: :applause:

[diamondsndust]

6. Miracles DO happen!

We need all the good news we can get these days. What a great ending to what could have been a lot worse tragedy, as my heart goes out the family and friends of the one who didn't make it. Everyone remember his family in your prayers, that they find some comfort and peace in their time of loss. Now, for a moment of silence.......................

















AMEN!

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

7. Yes, it has to be especially hard to be the family of the one in 13

who didn't survive.





RIP


Amen.

[BigYawn]

8. Thank heaven! Great news for all, esp. families.

[Blue_Roses]

9. Damn, that is GREAT news!

:bounce:

[radio4progressives]

10. Watching it on CNN now, this is fabulous news...

gawd, i can't believe i let myself get caught up in this...

but i did and it sure is good news for those families...

i hope the mining companies compensate those families well and that they implement the safety requirements that should have been in place..

anyway good news for all..

[wisteria]

11. Wonderful news!!!! n/t

[AtomicKitten]

12. Wow, unexpected good news!

Such a dangerous job. The families must be going through hell.

[AlecBGreen]

13. woohoo!

:woohoo: GREAT NEWS!!!!

[Stockholm]

14. False news - only one miner survived

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2019533&mesg_id=2019533

[OneTwentyoNine]

15. Yeah,and they waited three hours to re-release that bad news....

Even our morning paper has a story of the 12 being alive. Horrible....

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

16. What a nightmare. n/t