Fortnight ago in Nova Scotia the old Moose River Gold Mine collapsed, entombing its new owners, Toronto's Dr. David Edwin Robertson, Lawyer Herman Russell Magill and their employe, Alfred Scadding (TIME, April 27). The Moose River catastrophe set all Canada tingling with excitement as rescue crews began to dig, drill and dynamite.
Magill died of pneumonia, but on the ninth day of their entombment, last week Dr. Robertson and Scadding heard the welcome sound of picks chipping a hole to freedom. Ten days after the cave-in, both men were brought to the surface.
"Christ, I'm glad to see you!" Dr. Robertson...
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