Show I BURIED B BYA GAVEIN Seven Men Shut in on Lower Level of Ontario EFFORTS MADE TO RESCUE Finally Drawn Up Throe Hundred Hund-red Feat by Windlass Station Tender Benny Has a Narrow Escape From Death While Descending De-scending tho Shaft I TRIBUNE SPECIAUl Park City Nov 20 About 2 oclock this afternoon Park City was thrown into a furore by a sensational rumor to the effect that eight men were burled In a cavcln In the Ontario The wire to the Ontario wan kept hot for somo time until the facto became Known Shortly after noon three sets of timber on the SOOfoot level contiguous con-tiguous to tho Cornish pump station gave way and an Immense mass of rock and earth went crashing down Iho shaft ta king the timber on time way The only eyewitnesses of the occurrence were Austin Aus-tin Kelly Charles Hrockway and George Gross who were taking lunch on the 1700 foot level STATJOX TENDER MESCKNDS The men on top were apprised that something some-thing was wrong on account of Ihe I nlr line becoming disconnected and Station Tender William Benny was sent down in the cage to Investigate Mr Benny became be-came aware after passing the SOOfoot level that something was wrong by time masses of earth and tones falling on the rnof of the cagi He attcmpied to leap from the cage at several stations but failed BENNYS NARROW I3SCAPID I Tlu cage stuck fast thirty feet below the 1700foot level 1 and 300 feet of cubic dropped upon It The three men on the 1700foot level pulled this surplus cable from the cage and cleared a pasnagc 1 for Mr Benny to ascend It was a perilous undertaking as rocks were falling iMO feet with the momentum of bullets but Benny made tho ascent unhurt and the four men climbed through a raise to the I ISOOfout level and walked through the drain tunnel a distance dis-tance of three and a half miles SEVEN MEN SHUT IN Seven men arc shut III on the COOfoot level by the accident and every effort IH licing made to get them out Between lie I 1700 und 2lXMfoot JfyHn I then I Is I no ladder inanway or means of exit and the only possible way lime men can be relieved Is I Intlkbeadlng repairing the I shaft This Is proceeding npldly at the SOO and 1700 foot levels The men below have not born heard from but the air Is good and there I Is I no Immediate danger MEN ARE RESCUED rile hist I of th6 t men were drawn up from time CCOfoot level to I the 17CO by u windlass late this evening and are now on their way through the drain tunnul where they will meet several vehicles soul by friends and relatives No intelligence was received from time men below until late this evening although tin continued workings of the pumps Indicated that they were alive At n late hour a lantern amid note were lowered down one of the compartments from the 1700foot level and a reply WaS received to the effect that the men were all well BROUGHT UP BY WINDLASS 141 Let lunches I were lowered and iicn were put to work Improvising a windlass with which the men were brought safely to the 1700foot l level They aaccndcd from here 2CO feel through I a raise to time drain tunnel level It i developed after tho first excitement had subsided that three men were hemmed in on the 110foOt level These have since escaped by descending to the jl foot level 1 SHAFT CHOKED IP The extent of the avalanche that crushed down the shaft has Just begun lobe lo-be tcallzcd The shaft Is 1 choked up with timber rocks and debris und the man ways destroyed between the 10CQ and 11CC fool levels and between tin t 1103 and lf00 foot levels HO that in the rescue work there bus been no communication between the t lop of the shaft and the lower levels lime rescue force wns introduced Into limo mlno on the I 17Wfooi level by way of the drain tunnel Tbe men on top l were absolutely abso-lutely I In the dark as to what had occurred bolow until Into In tin evening when those escaping by l way of the drain tunnel telephoned I from the powerhouse of what bad happened SLID DOWN A VJNE J While the I work of relieving those below was going on this evening John Connelly slopped upon the sideboard of a winze amid shot down ISO feel suffering no further Injury I nan a slightly disabled fool The wlne slopes at an nnxlc of 70 degrees In the ronfuiiion and uncertainly of lie t present It Is l ImpOHslblc to t determine Limit extent of the t damage Anything like an examination of the I shaft for tho present is i Impossible but I it I t Is safe to prcdlet i licit t the ICO odd 11 en at the Ontario will take a protracted layoff |