Deseret Evening News | 1901-10-18 | Page 6 | Crushed to Death

m TO ITH Fifty Tons 1111 of ot hook losak Fall Pal on an Work Workmen men len In a n Tunnel New York Oct tl IC tons ton of ot rock rack caved In the Rapid HAld Transit tun tunnel nel nd I at nt street antI Broadway to day carrying death to an au undetermined ter termine mined mine number of ot forty torI Cort men wHo were Bt It t work below belol the surface TUB KNOWN INOW DEAD Peter Iel OHara Daniel Patrick Patricic foreman Corfman Foreman Maddin was wall found pinned down by tons of ot broken rw rC r h reel ret bein buin clear cler of ot the DIMS I of debria dOria dbr IRn of the workmen were imprisoned In lii a I small I chamber of oC the th excavation and their fate Cato will wi not be l known until th the re cuer who Will are arc digging toward them roach rach the lie point pint they are IU entombed They Th are at OM 00 0 feet south of oC the tIme shaft at the Intersection of street and anil Broadway and 10 feet tNt underground It I was estimated by some me of ot the engineers that there timera ther was wa air enough In the to 10 keep the Imprisoned men mn alive for Cor several 11 kH I hour hours The engineers decided dI l that the r only way to get to the ties WM was w to tunnel around the rock which had hall Cal fal ni len leis lenThe lel The contractors are arc unable to explain he the Ihl disaster They Ter said Mid It was the west Me Ile iii of the lie tunnel work that had hd cob col 01 lapsed Ip and that It I hAd seemed led on In Inspection IL I to have consisted of oC solid Ild rock rot roe and ami to have hu been very er firm