The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-30
RESCUE OF TRAPPED
MINERS IS HOPELESS,
AUTHORITIES BELIEVE
CBy Associated Press)


JACKSON, Calf, Aug. 30-Hope Of
rescue for the AZ prisoners of the Ar
gonaut gold mine waned today. Pick
ed miners of the Mother Lode country
working with desperate earnestness
that leaves them exhaused at the end
of their six hour shifts, battered away
at the thin but indescribably tough
wall of slate that separates the Ken
nedy mine from the Argonaut at the
5000 foot level. Beyond the wall, in
The lower levels of the Argonaut, are
the AZ miners who have waited hope
lessly since fire above cut them off
from escape at midnight Sunday
Ten men from the United States bu-
reau of mines rescue crew have been
going down in the burning mine in
relays. This morning they reported
that they had again reached the 1900
foot level from which a crew was
driven last night. The smoke was in
tense there, and the fire was reported
raging fiercely below that point The
flames are said to be gradually creep
ing up the shaft.
All the miners along the Mother
Lode far up here in abe Bret Harte
country have responded with voIun-
tempted rescue.
~ Trained Men Come.
Among those that have come to the
scene are men trained in mine rescue
work from the Carson Hill mine at
Melones, the Grass Valley mine and
the Empire mine at Grass Valley. The
latter mine has sent H. H. Crouch its
efficiency expert, with a rescue crew.
The Anadora county Red Cross has
a group of 20 men on duty.
The Red Cross is serving hot cot.
| fee, tea, and sandwiches to the fight
ers and comforting the grief stricken
families of the entombed men.
Thanks to the custom of the mine
to permit parties of 20 miners to go on
hunting and fishing trips Sunday, the
regular underground crew working or
| the Sunday night shift was a score
/ short of the regular number. Twenty
men whose turn it was to enjoy a holi
| day are alive and on top today.
! Withhold Names.
| While the officials of the mine will
not give out lists of names Skip Ten
| der Steve Pasalach stated that there
were Al lunch baskets in the lot which
/ he took under ground preceding the
lunch hour Sunday night. 1t is from
this statement that the number of i'm
prisoned men was fixed today at At.
| Supt. Garbarini has ordered news
paper men and moving picture oper
ators excluded from the mine property
Mrs. George Steinman, whose hus
band is imprisoned in the mine, tells {
story of a strange premonition which
came to him Sunday evening before h
left his home to go on shift.
! Feared Calamity
Something is going to happen,
Steinman said to his wife. And thel
glancing at the lunch basket which
his wife had prepared for him, h.
laughed and said ooh, well, CUES
it's nothing. / might as well go sine
you have put up the lunch
From Suffer Creek comes anothe
story of foreboding which did not pre-
vent O. Bardi from going to work il
the mine. The Italian benevolent sc
eiety held a session Sunday at Suite
Creek. and Bordi was one of those at
tending.
I'VE have had such a good time,
3 said Bardi to his wife, that I fea
, something awful is going to happen.
don't like to go back to work, but
guess It is all foolish notion" An,
Bardi went reluctantly, probably to hi
: doom.