Show fiGHT fOR LifE IN A SEWER Forty orty Laborers Have a Terrible Experience Under Ground With Water I SAVED BY FOREMAN CONNERS Took Ino n II Club to I Brain Any 11 lIy Mini Who Olny Ohl Orders Sin Ins All New Now York July Jill 23 Forty laborers ran rati swain fought for tor or their lives ites when wilen tho the new sever In III West Yest Forty lorty sixth street was Hooded tonight and 1 but for to I the coolness ot of Foreman Hen Ben Connors all ull would havo ilace perished Tho rho mon mets wore vere working in the tube which l Is eight feet teet In diameter 11 a block In ill length dId and 40 feet below the tile sur sUl surface face Suddenly a break brenk occurred In Inthe Inthe inthe the old ohl above them and und tho the es ea escaping calling caping 11 Water witter poured Into Inlo tho the open ollen mId end of the tude The Tho only exit was Wets nt at attile the tile opposite end where the tile air nil shaft led Jed to the tho surface A moment sifter after a Il stream trick trickled led Into tho the tube the hood flood cane came and when the tile mon to run the water was at their knees and rapidly rising Then Filen tile the men ran for tor forthe the tile shaft shott and In running fell tell over ocr each ench other When they th y went vent halt half vay to tho tile shaft tho tile water Wilier was at nt their waists Screaming and fighting lighting th the tha themen men wedged themselves Into a helpless mass Then Conners who had led cd the tho way to the Iho shaft took a Il hand and swinging nn an ugly club threatened thront nud to Ip bruin brain every everS over man of ot them theta If It they the dill did not obey obo him Then ho ordered them to form torm four tour abreast and march marched but moro more swam as ns by that Hint time tune tho water ilter had reached tho necks of ot tile tho taller while whilo those ot or lesser height had been swept from tram their feet teet One by one they the gained the shaft and the ladder to the street the tho sow sew sewer Conners Connors was the last to leave er or and when ho ilo did he ho rose lOse from crom six feet teet of or water |