New Britain herald., 1925-02-03
RESCUERS MAKING
 FRANTIC EFFORTS
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 That was last night. Today the strain of nearly 100 hours of torture showed It's effect. Collins begged his rescuers not to leave him aline. Tiny pieces of rock, seemingly too small to inflict pain. fell upon him and brought groans from the captive.
 Physicians warned against further efforts to pull the cave explorer out by force, asserting that death from rupture probably would result.
 Although worn by pain, Loneliness and danger. Collins could live in his chamber two more days, Dr. c. W. Richards of Glasgow believes. pr. Richards visited him during the night. .Tt
 A Beautiful Cave
 Behind and below Floyd Collins In his prison cave here is an im- mense vaulted chamber, the largest and most beautiful hehas ever seen, Collins told Jewell Estes when Estes discovered his plight Saturday.
 Resident who know Collins and recall that he discovered Crystal Cave with its marvellous formations of delicate beauty believe that his news discovery is wonder cavern.
 Alone 20 Hours
 For twenty hours he was alone, the constant drip, drip, drip of wa ter from melting snow and ice on the surface growing more deadly monotonous hour by hour.
 Saturday he was found, and since that time scores of men have tried in vain to rescue him. Persons all over the country have been trying to help, too, for many suggestions have been received by telegraph but the ingenuity of man has gone for naught. In the narrow crevice, hardly large enough for a small man to squirm through. the boulder, im- movable, has held Collins while the constant dripping of water has cre- ated torture chamber such as was known only in ages past.
 5 Inches in Four Days
 For hours men have pecked away at the boulder with cold chisels; Others have tugged at rope fasten- ed about the body of the victim. He has been moved five inches in four days.
 But hopes, stronger than the faded bodies of the rescuers, held out today and renewed efforts were being made to pull Collins from his living tomb.
 Drill Not Used
 Apparently only the most primi- tive methods will be successful, if is to be. A compressed air drill was rushed here from Louis- vile, but experienced cavemen said there was grave danger that the vi- brations would loosen other rock and cause the narrow passage to col lapse, so it was not used.
 Why couldn't something be done? That was the question asked on all sides. Surely there was some way he could have been rescued by this time? ~a F .. Reporter Enters Cave.
 A staff correspondent of the Louis- vile Courier-Journal answered the question early today. In a dispatch to his paper, filed here, the corres- pondent told of going into the cave to the imprisoned man.
 He said that he was lowered by his heels into the entrance of the cave and descended to the end of an SO- foot drop, where he reached fairly level ground.
 From here I had to equirm like a snake" he said. Waters covered almost every inch of the ground. and after the first few feet l was wet through and through. Every. mo- ment it got colder. Dirty water splashed in my face and numbed my body. Finally, l slid down an eight foot drop and a moment later saw Collins"
 Both Brothers Collapse.
 He said that Collins brothers, Marshall and Homer. had taken oil cloth into the cave to protect their kinsman from the necessarily drip ping water. They had done every thing humanIy possible for him, sparing themselves nothing, until they collapsed from exhaustion.
 Still optimistic. but himself facing a complete breakdown, Collins has agreed to any scheme to extract him from the vice nature created for one who would dare to explore her subterranean cavernS. Once be- fore he had been a prisoner for two days, when another enormous boul- der fell and blocked his egress from Crystal Cave. after he had penetrat- ed new found passages.
 To Start Tunnel.
 Early today it was discovered that workmen within the cave could be heard faintly from the side of the hill about 800 feet from the en- trance.
 A plan to bring 100 men to the spot and begin a tunnel immediately was evolved. The rescue work, here tofore heroic but haphazard and un- organized, took on a semblance ot order. If tunnel put through the hill strikes Sand Cave more than 150 feet from the entrance, work men will. for the first time, reach Collins from the side where the rock weighing him down can be seen
 Meanwhile another plan was be- ing pushed by those men working within the cave. A large screw jack, supplied by the Louisville Courier Journal, Is to be placed against the wall in front of Collins. With pipe or piece of timber extending from the jack across Collins body to the slab it was planned to exert pres sure against the stone: If the prls- oner was moved five inches, rescuerS argued, it might be possible to move the rock backward far enough to permit extricating Collins.
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