Show j MINERS RISK OWN LIVES I IN RESCUE ATTEMPT I MAHANOY CITY Pa Jan 11 17 7 IP At W-At At the risk of their own lives rues a small band of rescue workers inched to within a dozen feet of an entombed coal miner Tuesday They said they expect to reach Edward Burda 25 late j Tuesday afternoon But the they have little hope he is still ali alive ve I Burda was trapped by a rockslide last Friday feet I below belo the surface in an anthracite slope A brother Joseph Jo To seph 30 was rescued early Sunday from a spot 55 feet down The rescue workers fearful of another slide which might trap them tediously cut away a vein of anthracite parallel to the foot eight-foot wide rock-filled rock slope where Burda was was trapped As the they worked their way downward they used timbers and boards to reinforce the opening against another rock- rock slide Because of the possibility that the timbers might give away the miners risked their lives hacking and shoveling shoveling shoveling eling in the tunnel large enough for only one man I |