Show ARGONAUT MINE is TAKEN OUT bead MEN SAID TO HAVE DIED WITHIN FEW HOURS AFTER ACCIDENT HAPPENED jackson california I 1 Is scene of gruesome Grue iome sight when miners arc ara brought to top by their Com comrades jackson jackso calif jackson mining town in the mother lodo lode country has paid the toll dem demanded ot of those who delve in the earth for or gold and stands unafraid but not dry eyed forty seven ot of her men died in the argonaut mine early on the morning ot of august 28 she learned monday SIon day but jackson Is unafraid for her men showed they knew how holy to die moreover those who did not meet hect that fato showed s they know how to live tor for they gave ot of themselves without stint in the effort to sine sale their entombed fel fellows lovos it was Cali fornias worst amne m ne disaster in one of Cali fornias greatest gold old producers and it was the hardest blow jackson ever has had bad to suffer for many weary days disappointed tome some times ly by unexpected difficulties and heartened sometimes by equally unexpected bits of good luck rescue crews droe through the chocked tunnel that once had connected the two mines battered at tho the lock separating one of the kennedys Kenn edys drifts train from the argonauts toot foot level farly monday a drill was driven through the last harrier barrier of rock into the argonaut sweating shoulders and title able wills drone droe steel at the rock until this hole had been enlarged enough to permit a man to I enss ass file men made a hasty and unauthorized exploration ot of part ot of the argonaut seeking survivors sun Ivors at the imminent risk ot of their own lives the opening was enlarged enlar ged so that a rescue crew could pass and all day explorations pl orations went on Nit without hout any the levels were clear there was v us no sign eign of any miners left in hi them eith er dead or alive the rescue men hampered by their oxygen helmets and the heat ot at the underground workings turned their attention to exploring the the cross cuts and drifts leading from the tunnels already traversed in one they found a bulkhead that had not been there volien the miners went below that fatal midnight three weeks ago hope roe anew at this el eldrence dence that some at least of 0 the entombed d men had not died at instant death from the gases thrown oft by the tire fire in the shaft end and the rescuers pressed on they found another bulkhead not built ot at planks and timbers timber s and stuffed with torn clothing like ilk the first but erected of earth rocks and debris it was a pitiful structure gaping in places so that the rescuers lescue rs could see through it but it checked the air currents somewhat and the men in the oxygen helmets halted before it afraid to tear it down while Noo lille the air before it was poisonous lest they thereby cause sudden death to any who might be alive beyond it |