Show RESCUE ESCUE PARTY I TALKS TO MAN MANIN IN APEX TOMB I Volice Is Low With Exhaustion and Barely Carries Work Is Rushed With H Hope pe of J Reaching Imprisoned Miners This Afternoon I I BINGHAM Oct 18 At At o'clock this afternoon resen s t-in t in the Utah Apex mine penetrated the earth barrier bamer and andre andI andere I ere re able to talk with one of the entombed miners They did which of the trapped men en was speaking but he old Id them he and two companions w were were re in the drift Is HIs Norden there they asked EYes II Yes he answered His is voice pitched low-pitched from exhaustion barely carried to toie I I ie rescue party still six feet from the drift The condition of h iese Se men was not determined Mine officials will rush the escue cue ue work worl hoping to make a pass passage age through the debris this I BINGHAM Oct 18 Shortly Shortly ter 12 o'clock noon the rescuers king ing to bore through the debris where five men have since o'clock en entombed since ues ay afternoon h heard ard one of h he e imprisoned men talking The i ice ice sounded like that of Super Super- ident Norden it was said In InleW I ew leW of the fact that he was talk- talk I g to someone It t is evident that tore ore re than one man is alive in the tan Apex tomb Caution is being exercised in ring l ng g a hole so as to avoid bringan bring bring- 91 down an avalanche of rock A three inch drill is beg be- be g used At last reports the cuers rs it is thought were with- with I seven t feet of the imprisoned iners mere If this is tho the case case it is I that they will be reached thin the next hour or so The je I that is being beina drilled will allow i to crawl through i Optimism is prevailing A first I-an I I tation has been established the Abe mouth of the passage which been bored by the rescuing St I Sandwiches and hot coffee Ialo on hand Ii se excitement preva hefe i-e. i l and friends of the min min- re re near ready to greet the men when they come comet I ti t ti open I 11 l e tins this morning members the rest resu crew in the theIA IA Ian Apex mine mme heard sounds 1 lr l led Icil d th them m to make the J 1 ive ass that at least two ore of the five men caught un- un jl 1 a sLope cavern Tuesday after- after e M I H X are alive ali J I Immediately a change in the res- res and the Erkers are now cutting a hole ge ge enough for a man to crawl gh the debris choked tunnel to toIe J Ie manway Working feverishly to ut through the foot n. n ot barr barrier t to succor the en- en miners those h ose directing the Xh asserted confidence that the Ju would be penetrated by earl early r s jA At i. i 9 o'clock this morning the h heard ar tappin s from ben be- be nd md n the barn 1 i. i This was the ther r 1 sti st intimation that the entrapped W were alJ alive ali e since 3 r ro p reported Wednesday after- after ii E. 0 o BELIEVED ALIVE At t 10 o'clock those working working- on onAl onO Al barrier declared they heard the themble I O I of voices behind the cur- cur ut rock and earth From the v tads least j it was believed that at l. l lof IR the tho Imprisoned men were Ilot e C and talking with the that the other three may be beight ight out alive In Iii advancing a ry 17 y to support this possibility familiar with the mine work- work 4 n l declared that had the en- en Plied Ped P d miners leaped from the waY iway when the first intimation tt tie landslide reached them they ht t have gained a point of ot safea safe- safe a short drift leading from the tho A se trapped in the mine are indent Joseph Norden O. O I 00 felson elson Charles Parker Richard i strong and Joe Fore Fore- I 1 Ewan an Eden lost his life lie in the Frank Ortez and O. O De D. D I. I e e Iw were members of ot the party I rape cape RS BAR WAY Is nUt tr a few lew hours last night the thet t progressed rapidly but slowed 1 toward morning as the laving removed more inure than tItan thir- thir I t of the barrier encountered tere 5 IV timbers from the man manway way id d down and lodged in the tunI tuny tunI tun- tun I I I 1 y the These Theo J iJ necessitated the use of adze to make progress and further ell el lUes developed as loose earth i at t slipped Into the breach as aa the era rs ra dug forward i of ot the belief t that ot t th the men were alive first the report of I behind the tIle barrier and Miscounted diSCoUnted as the long hours t no recurrence of the sounds J aiti t tended ended to slow up the work ofT of N T With the hearing of ot tap tap- ap- ap i I f. f this followed by the t. t of bar bar- lv l a. audible ible voices hope 1 LJ 1 I heir companions still lived and fiat at t they ley might be in It from the Ion long en- en 1 i. i lent ent t the workers to toh totI tI rh h pitch V V SPEEDED UP digging process was vas ned in jn favor of ot th the quicker e l fl of burrowing through the this tunnel for the thed thet t Jd d manway beyond which the thO 4 o rift lie lie- which Is believed tOt to t f the tho only possible haven b buried burled miners the rescue ContInued Continued on pago page 6 RESCUE PARTY Continued from rota page 1 I. party party determined t to reach their companions as sO soon n as as as possible Wednesday night the rescuers rs work workers rs brought to light a battered miners' miners lamp and a length of at rope ropo that was being used In reinforcement reinforce reinforce- ment work when the disaster oc oc- oc These were wore at first taken talon as indications that the tho bo lies Hes wera were near at hand but In view of 01 the tho developments this morning it Is Js now I believed that whichever of th the party were carrying the articles found dropped them In hi his leap for t the safety of the drift There is plenty of good air In this drift mine officials say and If It the I entrapped men were quick enough h to elude the tumbling earth mass masi without Injury they should be in j fairly good condition despite he I two-day two fast It Is said I |