Evening star., 1925-02-07
MORE TROOPS SENT
WITH AMMUNITION
TOCAVERN PRISON
Tennessee Joins Kentucky in
Dispatching Soldiers to
Hold Back Crowds.
TRUCK OF CARTRIDGES
RUSHED TO CAVE CITY
Friction Growing Between Guard
and Citizens-Little Hope
Held for Collins.
b. the Associated Press

b. the Associated Press
CAVE CITY, Ky, February THE
measured tread of Kentucky troops
beat a staccato today to the frenzied
picking by miners digging away at
new shaft to Sand Cave. where
Floyd Collins. entombed. has lain.
pinioned by boulder, for almost zoo
hours.
Determined that no effort shall in
terfere in any way with the opera
tions, the guardsmen, under Brig.
Gen. H. H. Denh2rdt, last night or
dered Homer Collins, brother of the
victim, and John Geralds away from
the cave. Geralds was the leader of
one of the numerous rescue parties
which earlier in the week made
fruitless efforts to get to Collins
through the cave entrance. Both
men were called to National Guard
headquarters and officers there told
them the mine now boring down.
ward was the last chance to reach the
cavern prisoner. Their activity, es-
pecially Geralds' criticism of the
means being employed, made their
presence undesirable because 1t
slowed the work. officers explained
to them. 1t would be necessary,
therefore. to forcibly eject either man
who returned to the cave, they were
warned. Both agreed not to offer
further interference
4S Hours More Needed
Slowly but surely the shaft, pre-
ceded by a diamond point drill for
sake of safety, was going down Early
had n LoI1
level and had that much more to go,
possibly more. Workers have been
digging for 4S hours, day and night,
and another As hours probably will
have passed before the opening is
made.
Test drilling was discontinued
early today after the diamond drill
had reached limestone at a depth of
40 feet. DR.. w. B. Funkhouser, geol~
ogist of the University of Kentucky,
expressed the opinion that the drill
had reached the caprock of the cave.
Resentment In Growing.
When the rescue work took on a
semblance of order, after jeaIousies
glory seekers and heroes intermingled
for four long days when Collins was
In communication with the outside
world by the Shiny channel, Geralds
and Homer and Marshall Collins were
barred from entering the cave Since
then growing resentment against
the "outsiders" who came to Sand
Cave and assumed charged has been
observed.
Homer Collins, during the night.
made forbidden trip into the cave a
Jew hours before he was called to
military headquarters. He found the
light near the squeeze" still burning
of q orb
for a few moments, said he deter
mined that the entombed mans light
still glowed.
A truckload of ammunition and 9TH
er supplies was en- route to Cave City
from Frankfort by way of Louisville
this morning, despite denials by Ma
tional Guard officers that any am
munition had been ordered. Eight
hundred rounds for rifles were re-
ported in baggage car at Frank
fort. newspaper man there climb
ed into the coach and says he count
ed 2.400 rounds in boxes, consigned to
Capt. J. l.. Topwiller at Cave City.
The shipment was understood to have
been transferred to a motor truck at
Louisville.
More Guardsmen Arrive.
Eleven more National Guardsmen
arrived last night and IA others were
expected soon from Bowling Green.
Large crowds are hampering the mine
workers. it was said by way of ex-
PLANTATION for the presence of addi-
tional guardsmen.
A handful of Tennessee National
Guardsmen, members of the 164th
Engineers, arrived this morning to.
assist Kentucky National Guardsmen
on duty at Sand Cave, where Floyd
Collins has been penned underground
for eight days The guardsmen were
dispatched here by order of Gov.
Austin Peay.
Brother in Collapse.
Andrew Collins. eldest of the Collins
brothers. figured in two accidents
while hurriedly driving overland
from Kewanee, Ill, to reach Sand
Cave. He thought yesterday he had
discovered a new crevice, which
might lead to the chamber where his
brother is shut in. but was prevented
from entering the sink hole by
guardsmen. Shortly afterward he coll
|lapsed near the shaft, and was taken
to a Red Cross hospital unit, which
has been established on the grounds.
Physicians are constantly on duty
at the Red Cross tent prepared for
emergency service. Miss Fay G.
Lewis of Omaha, Neb., and Miss Ruble
NJ. Lawrence of Chicago, both trained
nurses, are waiting to lend their as
sistance.
The last word from the entombed
man was at 4 am. Thursday and he
had not been fed for IL hours prior
to then. The last men to crawl within
talking distances of Collins reported
enough food had been left along the
yides of the cave to feed several men
and expressed the opinion that only
very little of that reported to have
been given him ever reached his side.
EXPERTS ORDERED BACK.