13 families happy now.
12 by sunup.
12 Miners Are Found Alive, Family Members Say – New York Times.
SAGO, W.Va., Jan. 3 – Forty-one hours after an explosion trapped 13 men in a West Virginia coal mine here, family members and a state official said that 12 of the miners had been found alive Tuesday night.
“We’ve got a lot of hope that we’ll find these men,” Gov. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia told reporters just before 11 p.m.
Earlier in the evening, the body of one miner was found 11,200 feet from the mine entrance, within a few hundred feet of a vehicle used to transport the workers deep into the mine, company officials said. The miner was not identified, and the cause of his death was unclear.
UPDATE 2:14 AM Central
The cruelty of news
-- Despite earlier reports, family members in West Virginia now say only one trapped miner brought out alive. All 12 others dead. (CNN)