Show r BOB BOOL lO LOSE E CAVERN PLAN v Named by States State's Attorney Go Into Cell to Obtain Finger or Other Portion of Victim ff anger Janger I 0 of f D Digging S Second econ d T Tunnel Makes Necessary Drastic Action Death Gave Final Resting Place CAVE CITY Ky Feb 17 By A. A The EThe The body of Floyd Collins will in his natural natural tomb and his hs services will be held this t at the mouth of the shaft hi was dug to rescue him but in His aged father Lee Collins 1 S to the arrangement after filliam illiam Hazlett of Chicago had examined Collins and pro pro- ii ced him dead D Or er Hazlett came up the shaft at 20 p. p m. m and said he had through a gold front oth He announced that Collins dead between three and ande andIe e Ie days when he was reached yes yes- day afternoon Magistrate Tur- Tur ur- ur he lie had seen and recognized illins and felt confident there was ay to remove the body without ave aye risk I t-l. t T. T Carmichael in m charge of S shaft operations announced iT s s afternoon that he had ordered e C cement to be used in sealing e Entrance entrance to the tomb in the teral eral of the shaft Mft t CAVE CITY Ky Feb 17 By P IP Ri Four men selected b by Magra Mag- Mag ra tl e H. H B. B Turner at 9 o'clock j went down into the Collins Colllns rescue shaft at the 1 traction cUon of J. J Lewis Williams attorney to make malte report to him and Identify the the men were down in the theil il UH iH H. H T. T Carmichael director of lt issued a verbal yerbal saying that in view of ot Jk own danger workmen would th ther r be subjected to if It they timed umed i ed operations on the lateral tithe inspectors who now are the shaft probably would sever 10 Ion on of the cave victims victim's body Ithe as as s a finger hand wrist ear earY iy Y available small mall portion of ot iy Jr yd's s body and bring It to the tae 3 where it would be turned ie 0 o officials for identification embers of ot the Collins family 1 1 Carmichael then said it ld probably be he his ron that the dismembered parts I body be taken back down bait deposited beside the thee e remains large rocks boulders I 1 I 0 her debris rolled In place andL and L lithe he body in its already nati nat- nat i TUNNEL PLANNED THE TILE MOUTH OF SA SAND D K Ky Feb t 17 7 By U. U P. P P.- P. p if t f bringing the body of oC Floyd il II from its resting place in 1 cave e through the manhole led ed to the body late yester- yester as abandoned today ew ev v lateral tunnel has been d in an effort to reach the theL theo Id L Bf o of the dead man and free them the boulder which first him Dr W. W D. D Funk- Funk J geologist of oC Kentucky state C sIt announced L M tunnel is being driven at a between the foot 55 cue cLe e shaft and the end of the thel eral l tunnel which terminates In ini i manhole NERS RS START AGAIN ig I calloused hands of worn s again grasped their picks ice more the they hacked away t ic e. e strata of ot rocks and dirt lal Denhardt said that no will be De risked t to bring out m from the cavern which mehael hae regards regards' as extremely ig Serous us to rescue workers I wn-as wn va as all right for the work work- Continued on page 5 1 l BODY II CLOSE I-CLOSE CLOSE CAVERN OFFICIAL PLAN I IL I Ili L Continued from page 1 ji li fl to i risk isk their then lives Hes in a heroic I sh for foi Collins as long as there thele 3 a slender hope that he he still I d d. d General Denhardt said But now that he is Is' Is known to dead lead dead there thele is il no rio rea reason on for In- In In-I In pg ig g further tragedy in the depths I h hE cave cae ca an e f Collins is not brought tit from frome I e place of his long suffering and path th a simple funeral service will wilt t held at It thE Hie cave and the tho ext ex- ex I will Trill there forever fore Pt NS DELAYED j r hei burial plans will not not be tle ile bv by members of his family I until It t is known definitely whether the body can be removed II H. T. T Carmichael CarmIch el the man of 1 Iron who led the rescue shifts shirts Inthe Inthe in inthe the fruitless race with ith death led his men on to the tha final task of ot recovering the bod body if It it is humanly humanly hu hu- hu- hu manly manty possible Carmichael wept unashamed when the fight Ight was on over o r and It was known that that- the days and nights of toil had not saved the life of ot the cave explorer With the stoicism characteristic of the hill hm folk tolk Lee Collins father waited patiently for the diggers to complete their task Until the moment he was officially off off- eally informed of his sons son's death he had ad believed that Floyd would be bo brought out oit alive Then he broke down do and wept while neighbors neighbors neighbors neigh neigh- bors pressed around him to offer words of sympathy Wearied with their long tong vigil at the mouth of the ca cave cae e most of ot the neighbors and amt nL friends of Flo d gave up in exhaustion today and remained away from the cave e DIGGING RESUMED The rh digging continued with only a a. L few scattered spectators at th the mouth of ot the shaft The rocky vico vIce of oC the caves cave's treacherous crawl way clings to the body of ot Floyd Io d Collins in a tenacious embrace of death and the explorers explorer's remains ma may never be brought up from the underground tomb This loomed toda today when the shaft le leading to where Collins is entombed entombed entombed en en- became so dangerous that H. H T. T who is in charge of ot the rescue forces said that the themen themen themen men who try to bring the body to the surface are risking their lives I I have not given up hopes Carmichael Carmichael Carmichael Car Car- michael said We Ve are tr trying Ing to find tind some method to recover the bod body BODY NEARLY BURIED A crew of men worked all through the night removing dirt and rock from around Collins with their hands The bod body is covered up to the waist line Brigadier General II H. H Denhardt held a conference with Carmichael Dr Dr- William Hazlett Chicago phy- phy several local physicians and nd cr crew w foremen early today after Dr I Hazlett had made a trip Into the shaft We Ve will not attempt to remove the body before 9 a. a m. m General Denhardt said Dr Hazlett said that the opening was not large enough to attempt to amputate Collins' Collins leg which is pinioned under a boulder After the conference Adjutant General James A. A Kehoe telephoned his office In Frankfort for a fingerprint fingerprint finger finger- print expert I lie He said that fingerprints of the dead man would be made in order to identify him Collins served sered Inthe in inthe inthe the war Kehoe said and his fingerprInts fingerprints fingerprints finger finger- prints are on record FAMILY GIVES CONSENT Members of oC Collins' Collins family gave their written consent to amputate his feet I If that will aid In freeing him from the boulder which pinIoned pinioned pin pin- him eighteen days ago preventing preventing preventing pre pre- venting him from creepIng ou out of the after discovering a anew anew anew new wonderland cave Until physicians get to the body and examine it the approximate time of Collins Collins' death cannot be beI determined I It was apparent however front from the condition of Collins Collins' body as reported by Edwin Brenner the first man to to- reach the imprisoned explorer that the last spark sparl of life had departed long before the rescue shaft broke through Troops still sto stood d guard today at atthe atthe atthe the entrance to the cave They willbe will willbe willbe be kept there until the body of the explorer is 13 removed or all attempts to recover it are abandoned Sand cave will never lure an another another another an- an other victim to his death in its depths as it lured Floyd Collins on onto onto un to his destruction SHAFT TO BE FILLED The original entrance to the cave cae Is to be blasted with dynamite to prevent others from risking their lives in the and the rescue rescue rescue res res- cue shaft shaH will wUl eventually be he filled up Floyd Collins' Collins secret of the underground un- un unI I d wonderland he ho gave his j life to reveal has died with him Under direct and stringent orders issued to General Kehoe over long tong distance telephone early today bv by i Governor Fields of Kentucky an j autopsy will be held to ascertain if bv possibility Collins i was the victim of poison polson while lying In his place of entombment General Kehoe said the governors governor's governors governor's governors governor's gover gover- nors nor's orders will be carried out Also the food and drink left in the cave by early volunteer parties is to be analyzed Officials hero said they suspected no one of poisoning Collins Collins Col Col- lins but the investigation is ordered to spike for all time the wild ru rumors rumors ru- ru mors mOlS current during early ties Governor Fields G General Kehoe said is depending on Dr Hazlett I as a completely disinterested party to sett settle e the the- he rumors |