The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-18
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men IS NOT
YET KNOWN
Rescuers Must Timber
Opening Before Enter
ing; Fire Decreased.

The Associated freSSD-A nOlo
large enough to admit man
extended Ut 1880 O'Clock this
morning eight feet from the
3,GOO-foOt level of the Kennedy
mine into the Argonaut mine.
A rescue crew OF the United
States bureau Of mines was
awaiting word on the chemical
analysis of air before descend.
ing to tear out the rOtted tim.
berS and replace them with
safe umbering.
No word had come through
the hole to indicate whether
any Of the imprisoned AZ men
had survived the q days con.
finement in the black depths OF
the smOuldering ArgOnaut ire
trap.
Jackson, Calf, Sept. 1S.-(Dy
the Associated Press).-Connec-
ton between the Argonaut mine,
where Al men have been entOmbed
more than three weeks, and the
adjoining Kennedy mine was es-
tablished at AIS a. m. today, ac-
cording to V. S. Garbarini, superin-
tendent Of the Argonaut mine COM
pany. Garbarini said air began
passing between the two mines at
that hour.
Jackson, Calf, Sept is. (By the
Associated Press.)-Timbering the
opening between the Kennedy and
Argonaut mines to prevent a cave
in on the rescuers who stand
ready to enter the Argonaut de-
layed the federal mine rescue
crews from entering the Argonaut.
according to the last word tele-
phoned from the $500 foot Level
of the Kennedy today.
Jackson, Calf, Sept. 1S.-(By
the Associated s).-The fire in
the Argonaut mine has decreased
since the opening of the drift De-
tween the Kennedy and Argonaut
shafts, according to an official re-
port issued at a. m. by DR.. L. II.
Duschak, consulting chemical en-
gineer of the California state IL
dustrial commission.
1.-The carbon monoxide gas has
decreased materially, so that the
| test canary bird is only slightly
affected" DR.. Duschak said. 'The
volume of air coming out OF the
Muldoon shaft of the Argonaut
mine has increased about four
times over the volume that was
coming out before the $500 foot
Kennedy level was broken through
into the 1920 foot level of the Ar
gonaut"
Opening Enlarged.
Jackson, Calf, Sept. 1S.-(By
The Associated Pres. 1.-The open
ing connecting the Kennedy mine
with the Argonaut workings was
enlarged to the full size necessary
/ for the passage of the rescue
crews, it was announced officially
at GAS this morning.
The great force of the draft
blowing from the Kennedy into the
Argonaut mine indicates that there
is no cave-in on the 4,2O0 foot level
of the Argonaut, the rescue Off
cials declared.
Crews of men were holding tic
ventilating doors on the $500 foot
level of the Kennedy closed in Or
der that the draft would not re-
kindle the fire in the Argonaut.
The absence of cave-ins would
permit rescue workers, under BY
ron o. Pickard of the United States
Bureau of Mines, to enter the Ar
gonaut as soon as the debris has
been cleared away from the con-
Meeting cut.
Crew Wins 5000 Bonus.
AS soon as the second. or "re.
serve' squad of rescue workers eli
ter the Argonaut they will build
bulk-heads to check the draft frolh
the Kennedy.
The rescue crew which has been
driving ahead on the 1900 foot
level of the Kennedy, racing that
on the higher level, to see which
first would break into the Argo-
naut, was taken off the work this
morning when the draft assured
that there was no cave-ins on the
Argonaut's 1900 foot level.
Formal announcement was made
that the crew on the $500 foot
level, all members of which are
Argonaut miners, had won the
$1,000 bonus offered by the mine
officials to the first crew to break
into the Argonaut