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Show DBPBIiMB'EFFOEffB RESCUE THE; -n I tAVE-INFTME-GUNNISONUNNEL1 v ; . bxtlixttu, --'.. ; HOUTSCSE, Colo., Jly 31.- Twenty-one workmen who were imprisoned im-prisoned in the Gunnison reclamation tunnel by a cave-In yesterday, were rescued alive and uninjured- today through a" shaft which : was sunk 1 about fifty feet in less than twenty-four twenty-four hours.. Three injured, have been recovered, and there are two dead un-der un-der the slide. ; r ' ' it Is feared' that rooet. : If not all. of these were killed. Among- those believed be-lieved to be dead is Blumlnr Kemper of Grand Junction. .- The cave-In occurred about thirty feet from Cedar creeks and the channel of the creek has been changed to remove re-move any chance of the water percolating perco-lating into the tunnel and drowning the imprisoned men. This stream, generally general-ly dry. Is running over 100 cubic feet of water per second at present. ; A shaft is" being 'sunk on the north side of Cedar creek to cache the timbered tim-bered work of the tunnel. Signalling on the air pipe by striking with a hammer ham-mer brings answering , signals from those Imprisoned.- ; .' " i ; t MONTROSE Colo.; May SI. No1 Information In-formation had been received up to noon today concerning the fate of Thlrty-flve Thlrty-flve workmen imprisoned In the Gunnison Gun-nison reclamation tunnel by a cave -in or the progress made in the efforts to rescue them. ' .c ' " 1 , Later a message was received announcing an-nouncing that the rescuers, working from the western portal of the tunnel, came upon a body, but before It could be taken out it was again buried by a fresh slide of dirt Two men caught In timbers are known to be still alive, and strong hopes are entertained that most of the .imprisoned men will be rescued res-cued through the shaft that is being sunk. . ' ' ' . '' - Eight or ten men were at work at the point where the earth came down and |