Miners Given Up for Dead in 1968 Say Miracle Is Still Possible in Utah
Since Aug. 6, Jennings Lilly finds himself turning again and again to the television news reports, his thoughts flashing back nearly four decades to a time when he and five fellow miners were trapped for 10 days in a cold, flooded mine only three feet high in these Appalachian hills.
It was pitch black most of the time, and the men had no contact with rescue crews, who had all but given up hope of finding them alive; that they were found has been known ever since as the Miracle of Hominy Falls.
“Given what happened to us, I wouldn’t give up on them,” Mr. Lilly said of the six miners trapped for nearly two weeks inside the Crandall Canyon Mine outside Huntington, Utah. “But it doesn’t look too good.”
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It was pitch black most of the time, and the men had no contact with rescue crews, who had all but given up hope of finding them alive; that they were found has been known ever since as the Miracle of Hominy Falls.
“Given what happened to us, I wouldn’t give up on them,” Mr. Lilly said of the six miners trapped for nearly two weeks inside the Crandall Canyon Mine outside Huntington, Utah. “But it doesn’t look too good.”