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Wednesday May 23 | Palm Beach Post

Illinois man describes hours trapped in Iowa cave

An Illinois man who was trapped in an Iowa cave for 20 hours said he wasn't initially worried when he got stuck the narrow passage, but he lost track of time and turned to prayer as a dozen rescuers took turns crawling through 300 feet of twists and turns to free him.

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Wednesday May 23 | WSB-TV

Illinois man describes hours trapped in Iowa cave

Logan Eliason, 20, talks about being trapped for 20 hours in a cave at Maquoketa Caves State Park, May 21, 2012.

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Tue May 22, 2012

Des Moines Register

Iowa Right to Life mourns death of chairman Robert Dopf

The University of Iowa Foundation says its emails and expense records are not subject to disclosure under the state's open-records law, a position that appears to conflict with a 2005 Iowa Supreme... It took an indoor relay of skinny people to save a pair of cavers stuck inside Wye Cave at Maquoketa Caves State Park last weekend.

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WHBF-TV Rock Island

Special fire crews help save trapped Maquoketa Cave hikers

Rescue crews saved two hikers, trapped over the weekend in the Maquoketa Caves. Special crews from Iowa and Illinois worked together to save their lives.

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Mon May 21, 2012

DesMoinesRegister.com

Waukee graduates take the stage at Drake

It took an indoor relay of skinny people to save a pair of cavers stuck inside Wye Cave at Maquoketa Caves State Park last weekend.

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WQAD

Man trapped in cave says "God pushed me out"

A 20-year- old theology student trapped in a cave says rescuers did a remarkable job, but says "God pushed me out". "I slipped further and further down in a rut, in the cave and pretty soon my legs were stuck, my hips were stuck, my chest was stuck.

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Sat May 19, 2012

WHBF-TV Rock Island

Camper is rescued from Maquoketa Cave

That's when 20 year old's Logan Eliasen and Emma Thomson of Port Byron got trapped inside Wye Cave.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Rescuers free man stuck overnight in Iowa cave

Iowa Department of Natural Resources spokesman Kevin Baskins says 20-year-old Logan Eliasen , of Port Byron, Ill., was dislodged from a narrow part of Wye Cave at Maquoketa Caves State Park about 3:30 p.m. Saturday.

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