Port Byron News

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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