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Show NO SIGNAL FROM MEN IN MINE Rescue Forces Increased at Whirlwind Property in Canyon. (Special to The Tel; ram) AMKKK'AN KOKK, June 30. Tb men who hav hern working furiously for hours trying to reach the two entombed en-tombed miners, Timothy Hmith and Albert Al-bert Durrant. in the Whirlwind mine, twenty miles from here up American Fork canyon, have not been able to get any answer to signal and many of them have lost hope of finding the men alive. One of the workers went to the upper power pis at, hall way belwei win eiy and the mine, this morning and telephoned tele-phoned here for aHHUtaure, five more men responding. The rentiers have ajrea.lv gone more than 150 feet, the ravein falling at in tervaU like running mud. The tunnel in 00 feet long, and it is figured that it extends free about 600 feet back of the eavein. If the miners are in the free tunnel, it is believed they may live until rescue reaches them, but there is fear that they were caught under the eavein, Hmith and Durrnnt and the former's brother, Clyde, were working yesterday when the last named noticed that a place near them looked weak. He note- I n H hi hrnthavr "You go out and get some timbers and I will go back and get Smith and we will fit it," said Timothy Smith. W'hen his brother returned with the timbers the tunnel was closed and he hurriedly gave the alarm. Twenty-five men were working near the Whirlwind mine at the time of the eavein, all of whom hurried to the scene of action. At 10:.t0 o'clock last night fwenty-five additional workers went from American. Fork. E. J. Wild of the Yankee mine is in charge nf the work of rescue. The Whirlwind mine is on tha south side of Miller hill, adjoining the Dutchman Dutch-man mine, where the old smelter stood in the early "7D. "Tim" Hmith and .lacob Greenwood of American Fork had the Whirlwind underlease. Albert Ihirrant is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Durrant of American Fork. Timothy Rtnith is the son nf David Hmith of American Fork, hi mother having died some years ago. , |