Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-06-15 | Page 1 | Thirteen Men Are Entombed in New Subway

THIRTEEN MEN HRE ENTOMBED IN NEpWM Six Bodies Recovered, Two Wounded Men Rescued and Five Victims Still Buried Under Tons of Rock. MOST OF VICTIMS ARE FOREIGNERS Disaster Occurs at Fifty-sixth Street and Lexington Ave-nue, Ave-nue, New York, Eighty Feet Below Ground. NEW TOE-K, June 14. Eleven lives are believed to havo been lost in a disastrous cavein eighty feet nnder-, ground on the new subway construction construc-tion at Fifty-sixth street and Lexington Lexing-ton avenue tonight, when thirteen men of a crew of thirty-two drillers and laborers were entombed. At 10:30 o'clock six bodies had been recovered and five were reported still buried under un-der many tons of rock and earth. Two injured men were rescued, but one probably will die. Five hundred laborers were quickly assembled at the scene in an effort to dig out the buried men. There- appeared ap-peared to be no hopo that any of the entombed workmen 'escaped death. There is a conflict of opinion "as to whether the cavoin was duo to a blast or tho collapse of timboring. There are two levels to the subwaj' construction construc-tion at this point, the upper ono for local trains and tho lower for express. It was the ceiling of the latter tunnel which caved in. Robert Eidgway, cngincor in charge of the public sorvice, after an investigation inves-tigation announced that the cavein was not directly traceable to a blast. The rock at this point is fault', ho said, and tho shoring timbers gave way for a distanco of twenty to twenty-five feot. Firemen discovered that a rock weighing several tons had fallen on somo of the buried meu. It could not bo moved by tho moans at hand and probably will havo to bo blasted be-foro be-foro tho bodies can bo removod. Three priosts descended into tho tun-nol tun-nol in excavation buckets to administer adminis-ter the last rites of the church, if any of the men were rescued alive. Most of the dead, whoso bodies have been recovered, are foreigners.