Evening star., 1922-08-30
HOPE FADES FOR Al
ENT0MbED MINERS
Rescuers vainly to Break
Through Blazing Shaft
in Gold Field.
SOME HAD PREM0NITIoN
Two Workers Told Wives They
Feared Danger-Fishing
y Party Escaped.s
SOME HAD PREM0NITI0N

JACKSON. Calf, August S0.-Hope
of rescue for the forty seven prisoners
of the Argonaut gold mine waned To-
day Picked miners of the mo'her
lode country. working with desper
ate earnestuess that leaves them eN-
hausted at the end of their slX-hour
shifts battered away at the thln bu'
Incredibly tough wall of slate that
separates the Kennedy mine from the
Areonaut at the S.600-foot level. Be
yond that wall. in the lower levels OF
the Argonaut, are the forty seven
who have waited helplessly since hre
above theEl cut them off from escape
at midnight Sunday.
Ten men from the United States
bureau of mines rescue crew nave
been going down in the burning mine
in relays This morning they report
ed that they had again reached the
2.700-foot level from which a crew
was driven last night The smoke
was intense there. and the fire was
reported raging fiercely below that
point The flames are said TO be
gradually creeping up the shaft
Many Aid Rescue Work.
All OF the mines along the mother
lode far up here in the Bret Harte
country have responded with volun-
teers to aid in the work of attempted
rescue
Among those that have come to the
scene are men trained in mine rescue
work from the Carson Hill mine al
Melones, the Grass Valley mine and
the Empire mine at Grass Valley. The
latter mine has sent II. II. crouch. It's
efficiency expert. with rescue crew.
The AmAdora county Red Cross
has group of twenty women on
duty. serving hot coffee and sand
wiches to the fighting and comfort
ing the grief-stricken famiiles OF
the entombed men.
Thanks to the custom of the mine
to permit parties OF twenty miners
70 go on hunting and fishing trips
sunday the regular underground
crew working on the sunday night
shift was a score short of the reg
ular number Twenty men whose
turn 1t was to enjoy holiday are
alive today.
While the officials of the mine
will not give out lists of names. skip
Tender Steve Pasalich states that
there were fortyseven lunch bas-
kets in the lot which he took under
ground preceding the lunch hour
Sunday night. IL is from tnlS Sldlc-
ment that the number of imprisoned
mon was fixed today at forty-seven.
Miner. Had Premonition.
Supt. Garbarini has ordered news
paper men and moving picture op-
orators excluded from the mine prop
erty.
Mrs. George Steinman. whose hus-
band is imprisoned in the mine, tells
a story of a strange premonition
which came to him Sunday evening
before he left his home to go on
shift
Something is going to happen
Steinman said to his wife. and then.
glancing at the lunch basket which
his wife had prepared for him. he
laughed and said: "Oh. well, L guess
it's nothing. might as well go
since you have put up the lunch-
From Suffer Creek comes another
story of foreboding which did not
prevent o. Bardi from going to work
in the mine. The Italian Benevolent
Society held session Sunday at
Sutter Creek and Bardi was one OF
those attending.
I'VE all had such a good time"
said Bardi to his wife. that | fear
something awful is going to happen.
I don't like to go back to work. but
/ guess it's all a foolish notion" And
Bardi went reluctantly. probably to
his doom.