Miracle In West Virginia (With Updates)

12 of the 13 miners found alive!
Things went from as bad as they could be, with the air being unbreathable and one body found, to 12 found alive and kicking. A few hours ago the mine president said, "We are clearly in the situation where we need a miracle. But miracles happen."

Yes, they do.

**
The FOX reporter interviewing by phone one of the family members waiting in the church was a hoot. He asked the nephew of one of the miner's how he felt that they'd been found alive. The nephew said "God is good. But even if they hadn't been found alive, God would still be good." Raised eyebrows from the reporter. The FOX guy then tried to get the nephew to badmouth the mine on safety violations. All he got was the nephew repeatedly saying "Every coal mine has violations." He wanted to interview other family members, but all refused. The nephew then interrupted him to add once more, "I want you to understand, every mine has violations." Welcome to Coal Country, Mr. Newsman. No mine, no town.

UPDATE
Oh, my God. There's been a total reversal. Only one man survived. The families are going nuts. They'd been told they were alive. What a hideous, hideous thing to happen to these poor people.

The lone survivor is a young man named Randal McCloy. He's in bad shape.

Press Conference: They had gotten away and built a barricade, and were wearing their masks.
The coal company never gave official notice there were 12 survivors. This was a miscommunication from the rescue teams using a mine phone. It was relayed to a speaker phone, and spread from there. Supposedly an outsider went into the church and told the families all had survived. What a nightmare:

Family members learned early Wednesday that 11 of the 12 coal miners who were initially thought to have survived an explosion in a coal mine have died.

Families learned of the deaths from mine officials more than three hours after Gov. Joe Manchin said he had been told 12 of the miners survived the disaster. The sole survivor of the disaster was hospitalized, a doctor said.

International Coal Group Chief Executive Officer Ben Hatfield told the families that only one miner, Randal McCloy, had survived the explosion.

Hatfield told the families gathered at the Sago Baptist Church that "there had been a lack of communication, that what we were told was wrong and that only one survived," said John Groves, whose brother Jerry Groves was one of the trapped miners.

At that point, chaos broke out in the church and a fight started.

Thank God someone did survive. He's the miracle.

UPDATE II
Randal McCloy's youth was on his side. He was the youngest man in the crew.
His family is with him and I know they're so grateful he's there for them to look at.

The media, despite their famous "four layers of fact-checking," went with unsubstantiated rumor all the way around.
Geraldo Rivera says the media were "victims."
***
Previous posting:
Miner's Prayer