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Show ENTOMBED mei ft be YET ALIVE Kewiiers Hear Signals From Lower Depth of German Coal Mine; Death Toll Is Now Fixed At 238 Men. AACHEN, Germany, Oct. 22 (UP) Hope of rescuing coal miners trapped in the dai kness cf the lower depth i oi the Wilhelm pit, where 231 ; persons were killed, was re-) vived today when unniistak- i able signals from the en-1 tombed men again were heard by rescuers. The minora, believed to number about 53, but possibly including a 1 score of others still alive, have been entombed for a day and a half about 1300 feet below the &ur- ; face. A representative of the Prussian i government told the United Press that rescuers hoped to save most of tje men remaining in the mine. "We do not believe the total of dead in the disaster will exceed 23S men," he said. While ' rescue squads, recruited from all neighboring regions and working in -relays, slowly penetrated pene-trated to the region in which the men were trapped, removal of bodies continued. ' The exact cause of the disaster i ;till remained uncertain. the theory that a store of dynamite exploded ex-ploded having been eliminated by i the finding of the cache undamaged. undam-aged. Experts who entered the mine today said the blast might have been caused by accidental ex plosion of a dynamite cartridge which Ignited coal dust or struck a fire damp area. Outstanding mne disasters of j the past include the following: ! Place Year. Dead Scoficld, Utah 1900 200 Monogah. W. Va 1907 361 Cherry, HI. 1900 259 Dawson, N. M. 1913 263 Castle Gate, Utah 192-1 171 Mather, Pa 1928. 195 Neurotic,. Silesia 1930 151 |