Miners honored at service; hundreds join in prayer

Monday, August 5, 2002

SOMERSET, Pa. -- Nine miners who spent more than three days in a flooded coal mine 240 feet underground joined hundreds of people at a church service Sunday night to give thanks for their rescue a week ago.

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