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Show 1 HOPE DYING IN I RESCUE EFFORTS Company Official Admits Belief 47 Miners Have Perished Y J-VKSOX. Cal.. Sept. 8. (By the Associated Fress. ) Diminished hope j accompanied today the renewal of : feverish efforts to rescue the 47 i kninors entombed lccp in the Argo naut gold mine hero 11 days afro The feeling that fw If any of the ,jnen would he found alive appatent-- appatent-- ly was grow ing. In the first official statement is-nupd is-nupd slnr,- the disaster, E. A. Steu Vice president of the Arfron:mt Wit). .'I ;' Iftg company, Thursday night exprssii- r-d the belief that all of the men haJ -perished. j -'I sadly fear that all wo ran do Is '.. I to bring out the 47 bodies," he-told j -the Associated Press I ! Mr Stent added that he did not plftce credence In reports that the entombed miners had signaled their "rescuers by blantn In the last fw j ' days He based his hopeless outlook : largely on the report of Dr L. II. t !iJuschak. of the industrial accident commission, that gas f Utnes observed Issuing from one of the shafts would kill In two mlncTcs. The vleo presl-I presl-I dr-nt. however, said It was possible a fW of the miners had escaped the .".gas by barrlradlnp themselves at a lower level. He explained that copi- pany officials were "ignoring all be- i ,ifs" and rushing the work of res cue on the theory that the nun were fclivc. j - Less than 20 feet w.ro oleai I ! Thursday on the 3C00 foot lvel Crews on this level and on that 8900 feet down have been working la clay and muck. At the end of the day approximately 260 feet remained to l be tunneled before any of the crews r-ould hope to strike the eolld rock formation which, li wis estimated, would require 3G hours of constant drilling to penetrat . or- |