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Show 2 MINERS IN IDAHOCAVE-IN WALLACE, Idaho, April 15 (lR) Hundreds of miners, working in relays, were making desperate efforts ef-forts today to rescue two miners entombed in a cavein of the old Frisco mine, four miles north of here. The rescue workers heard faint cries frVvn the men this morning and redoubled their efforts to reach the victims, John Oscar Johnson and John Amonson, who had been thought dead since late Sunday. Rescue work was slow despite the fact that the Volunteers were laboring at a feverish pace with fresh crews replacing exhausted ones at short intervals. The bore is very small and each foot reclaimed re-claimed from the slide must be timbered. tim-bered. The cavein is the first in : the Coeur D'Alene district in many years. Fred Donohue, safety engineer of the Federal Mining and Smelting company of Wallace, and Albert Nelson, of the Cedar Creek Mining company, vere directing the work. The cavein was discovered late yesterday when search for the two miners was started because they failed to return from work. The rescue crews were organized immediately im-mediately and have been working without a halt. |