Evening star., 1936-04-20
Miners
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been treating him for several days be-
fore they went into the mine.
The shaft house, standing with one
of its edges over the cave-in area, was
torn down by two tractors to provide
timber for the dangerous Reynolds
shaft through which it is hoped to
rescue the men.
Draegermen (mine emergency ex-
perts) from Stellarton and life saw
ing crew from Porcupine, Ontario.
were clawing and picking through the
unpropped entrance with little regard
to their own safety. They were ad-
vancing so rapidly that pit-propeprs
behind them were unable to keep up.
All Available Timber Used.
All available timber, cut at a saw
mill nearby, had already been used.
Previously, the men below had
shouted up the pipe to warn the rescue
workers against blasting toward them.
1T will be all right now if you blow
the steam whistle first" DR.. Robertson
told the surface crew.
Complete emergency hospital equip
ment stood waiting at the scene ready
to treat the exhausted men when they
are brought to the surface.
All yesterday the trapped men
found it difficult to reach the drill
hole because of rising water, and
still harder to pick food and supplies
from 1t with seepage water being
forced out at great pressure.
Finally rubber hose was let down
and carried by the men to the cave
where they had lived a week. Soup
and other liquid nourishment was sent
down through the hose from the
surface.
BY tapping at the pipeline and
shouting, however, they were always
able to communicate with the sur
face, where Mrs. Magill and Mrs.
Robertson waited patiently for a res
cue to be effected.
One of the draegermen. Jack Simp.
son, was carried out of the shaft ex-
hausted. Another of the same crew
Bill Boudoux, Ill and ordered out of
the shaft, returned to replace Simpson.
They're crazy men," one of the
engineers declared. I'VE can't do
anything with them"
Less than Is feet of rock and earth
separated the rescue workers and the
two survivors of the cave-in.
1t became impossible to pour any
more food to the survivors through
the tube-which communication was
first established with them early yes
terday morning.
Mine Manager Henderson said the
water, seeping down through the old
works, was so high around the bot
tom of the tube that the men were
unable to reach it.
A stifled cry from the gloomy depths
of the mine, carried to the surface
through five-inch pipe line, told
rescue workers earlier today OF the
death of Magill.
Ali three men existed in absolute
darkness, with no word of their fate
until yesterday. when communication
was established with the aid of dia-
mOnd drill.
Their first word. as common place
as though spoken over a telephone, was
Hello"
Hope, almost abandoned, was revived
as food. water and equipment were
lowered through 100-foot-long pipe
line. Doctors had expressed belief that
all three could be kept alive indefinitely
and soup was being lowered when the
cry came:
1.-The mine Is f1ooding!"
The voice of the timekeeper, Scad-
ding, then brought the word of Ma
gili's death.
Volunteer draegermen from Stellar
ton entered the Reynolds shaft. hop
ing to find path to the 14l-foot level
where the prisoners were trapped.
Work on this channel had been
abandoned after warnings by j. P.
Messervey, chief inspector of Nova
Scotia mines, Of the danger Of falling
rock.
Digging in the shaft where the walls