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Show FAIL TO RESCUE ENTOMBED NEN Efforts to Enter Burning Nine at Calumet Are Stopped by Cases. CALUMET, Mich., Jan. 13. Heroic efforts have failed to release the seven men Imprisoned under ground In the burning portion of the Tamarack mine. Several members of the rescuing party sent in yesterday were overcome by gases and they were rescued with difficulty. diffi-culty. A party in charge of James Maslln went down through No. 3 shaft. They reacnea tne twenty-ninth level, but smoke and gas drove them back. Several Sev-eral were overcome and were carried from the shaft. Another party had a similar experience. Mr. Maslin and two companions were carried out by others of the party. Their condition was precarious pre-carious and their lives were saved only after desperate efforts. An Austrian named Simonovltch, a brother of one of the men Imprisoned under ground, made a terrific struggle to penetrate the burning mine, wrapping wrap-ping clothes about his head, but the gases were too powerful and he was overcome and carried to the surface in a critical condition. i No 6hafts will be sealed until every possible effort has been made to determine deter-mine the fate of the seven men. There is a powder magazine at the twenty-fourth twenty-fourth level, and many cases of dynamite dyna-mite ere stored at various levels In the shaft, but the fire Is several hundred feet away, and there is no Immediate danger -of an explosion. |