Vignettes of recently rescued survivors of China’s May 12 earthquake, whose confirmed death toll rose Tuesday to 40,075:

Trapped between two large stones and living on rainwater, Wang Youqun was rescued 195 hours after the quake from a temple in the city of Pengzhou. She was pulled free at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday, one of the most recently rescued survivors, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.

Wang, a 60-year-old retiree, suffered only a hip fracture and bruises on her face during her eight days in the rubble, Hong Kong-based Phoenix Satellite Television reported, citing air force officer Xie Linglong. She was knocked into a daylong coma by a falling girder, Xinhua reported.

___

Ma Yuanjiang was pulled out of the debris of the Yingxiu Bay Hydropower Plant early Tuesday after 100 workers pounded through 10 slabs of concrete to reach him, Xinhua reported. Freed after 179 hours, he had a large wound in his right side, and a colleague told Xinhua he was in intensive care.

Rescuers first saw Ma, a 31-year-old power plant executive, on Sunday as they dug to rescue one of his co-workers. As they used jackhammers and shovels to tunnel through 30 feet of debris, they fed him sweetened water through a tube.

___

Peng Guohua, a miner, survived 170 hours by eating clean toilet paper and drinking his own urine, Xinhua said citing unidentified military sources. He was in stable condition.

Peng, 37, had been working in a lime pit 32 feet deep when the quake sealed him inside. Rescuers found and treated him Monday afternoon in a township of An Xian county, near the city of Mianyang.

___

Wang Chunbang was trapped in a crack near the entrance to a manganese mine and stayed alive by drinking his own urine until being saved 164 hours after the quake, Xinhua reported. He was in fair condition with dehydration after his rescue Monday morning in Qingchuan county.

Wang, 65, had been on his way home at the end of a shift when the mining pit collapsed in a landslide. For the first two days, he cried out when he heard footsteps but was not rescued. Workers followed the sound of his weak breathing after they found two corpses at the pit entrance, one rescuer told Xinhua.

___

Liu Huaqing was trapped for 96 hours in her bathroom. She’d run there because she thought a confined space would be safe, and ended up with the left side of her body caught between two facing walls that collapsed.

Liu, a 43-year-old waitress, listened May 14 as rescuers saved one of her neighbors a floor below her, but she had to wait another day for her own rescue because her location was harder to reach. “I was bitterly disappointed, but there was nothing to be done,” she said later from her hospital wheelchair, in tears. Her left arm was severely bruised, and her left knee was swollen and bandaged.