Show SWIMMERS RESCUE ITALIAN deiy york dec la arce daring swimmers today reached the two italian laborers who for more than 40 hours had been imprisoned in the east river tunnel of the pennsylvania railway by a cave in at tho long city end surrounded by valor which threat to engulf them the moment the compressed air should fall to hold it la check the two entombed men had kept up constant communication with the surface by rapping on tha pipes which brought them nir they were almost exhausted when the three men swam up platform on which they were huddled A hundred men working tor ma sinking a shaft to the imprisoned la borers made slow progress powerful made only a little gala on the inflow of tho river it was impossible to uso rowboat row boal i then some one at tho entrance suggested that the rescuers rescue ra swim to the exhausted men who had for BO long i been shut from the light of day and who had lived under tho heavy pr sure of compressed alt for a length of time that made them helpless benjamin lewis himself an old tunnel worker charles and philip edmondo at once without thought of their personal safety theae three men plunged into the icy water at the entrance and were soon lost to view in the darkness of the bore barely two feet separated the tunnel top aiom the surface of tho flood water then followed anxious moments for the watchers outside the swimmers had boen gone seemingly an age when at last a splashing of water brought news to anxious ears that tho quest hal ended lewis abon appeared with ona of the entombed men on hia back then 9 mighty cheer was sent up ed londa next appeared with the second laborer clinging to him desperately |