Miracle At Quecreek Mine

When Bill Arnold grabbed his Colt 45 and ran out the door of his home at Dormel Farms near midnight on July 23, 2002, he thought he'd be chasing off a would-be thief from the tool shed. Instead, he encountered two surveyors, friends of his."Billy, there's been an accident in the mine, and there's nine men missing. We think they're trapped under your farm."This is a true American story, a factual account of a string of miraculous events that saved lives and uplifted a nation, as told through the eyes of the dairy farmer who had a front-row seat to The Miracle at Quecreek Mine.

The story of the Black Wolf Coal Company's Quecreek No. 1 mine, the nine men who were trapped 200 feet below ground, and the heroic efforts of the rescuers who managed to bring the trapped miners back to the surface.

The author tells the story of the dramatic rescue of two coal miners in the 1963 cave-in at Sheppton, Pennsylvania. The first time boring was used in a mine rescue. One man was never recovered.

El rescate de 33 mineros atrapados bajo el nivel del suelo en el desierto chileno por 69 dias en el 2010 reunio al mundo en oracion. Esto es un testimonio a la fe, la creencia y la persistencia de los mineros, las tripulaciones de rescate y el poder de Dios para llevar a cada hombre de nuevo al nivel del suelo. La parte extra de este libro detalla un rescate milagroso similar en la Mina Quecreek en Somerset, PA en julio del 2002. Este tiempo de 18 hombres, 9 de los cuales estuvieron atrapados por 3 dias y medio, con el agua que subia a un nivel donde se hallaron presionados contra el techo, tomando lo que consideraban sus ultimos suspiros.

For five days in July 2002, the world's attention was focused on the fate of nine coal miners trapped 245 feet underground in western Pennsylvania, not 13 miles from the horrific end of September 11's Flight 93. Seven hours into their afternoon shift, a machine they were operating suddenly broke through a wall, unleashing a torrent of water from an adjacent abandoned mine. With the miners out of sight and the aboveground heroics largely shielded from view, the drama that captured the public imagination was far from complete. Their desperate struggle to survive as the water continued its inexorable rise was played out in cramped darkness. The final, heart-stopping moments provided the storybook ending, but the real story was yet to be told--until now. The miners are home, the rescuers are back at their day jobs, investigations have begun, and, as the story inside All Nine Alive reveals, what really happened in those desperate hours was more breaktaking than we knew.

Recounts the accidental flooding of the Quecreek mine near Somerset, Pennsylvania, the escape of nine miners, the rescue efforts that resulted in eventually freeing the nine others that were trapped below, and the public celebration.

"July 2002 - nine men are trapped in a collapsed mine with no food or drinking water. In their underground grave the waters are rising and the oxygen vanishing. They face imminent death from suffocation or drowning. Miraculously all nine of the miners survived. It took 77 hours to rescue them from a tiny, pitch-black chamber of rock, only 3 feet high. This is their terrifying and moving story. The only official story, told in the miners' own voices, with chapters from their wives, girlfriends and mothers who waited up above with increasing desperation. This is a rare, and raw, book. How did these nine men prepare for death? What did they think about as the waters rose, as breathing became harder and harder-? A nail biting and life-changing account of a nearly tragic disaster."

It was a day that started out just like any other at the Quecreek mine, but none of the men working the 3 to 11 p.m. shift that Wednesday could ever have prepared for what was about to happen to them. Nine Alive is the story of nine Somerset County miners who showed unwavering courage and strength, waiting nearly four days for rescue while 244 feet underground. It is also the story of several hundred dedicated and tireless rescue personnel who refused to quit until all nine were safely above ground once again, overcoming fatigue, equipment failure and despair along the way. The Associated Press' full-color photography and up-to-the-minute news coverage reveals the ultimate story of bravery and hope that had all the world holding its breath and praying for a miracle.