Three Lost Explorers Found In West Virginia Mine [View all]

Dec 12 (Reuters) - Three people who had been lost in a West Virginia mine for four days were found on Wednesday and brought to the surface, a state spokeswoman said.

Erica Treadway, 31, Kayla Williams, 25, and Cody Beverly, 21, were all being transported to a local hospital for treatment, said Samantha Smith of the West Virginia Office of Miners' Heath, Safety and Training.

Smith said she had no immediate information on the condition of the trio, who had been stranded inside the Rock House Powellton mine near the town of Clear Creek since they crawled through a ventilation shaft into the caverns on Saturday.

A fourth person who was with the group when they entered the mine, 43-year-old Eddie Williams, found his way out on Monday to alert authorities that his friends were missing

An explosion at a coal mine in the same area in 2010 killed 29 people in the worst U.S. mine disaster in four decades. -END-

(Reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Dan Whitcomb in Los Angeles; Editing by David Gregorio and Chris Reese)

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