Show 1 ONTARIO TU L LC C CAVE f IS Old Sliver Silver Mine at Park ark City Filling With Water T THE IN DANGER Alt All the Sliver Silver Kins Heroic Efforts Being Made latte to I Open Great Greal Adit Mit Again gahn I Tho The cavo cai ca In the Ontario Ontario drain tun tune tunnel i nel nd at Park City has assumed a a n serIous I aspect and there thore Is no telling what damage is likely lII ely to bedone because ot of It Tho The Ontario mine and mill are closed and the mine Is rabidly rn up with tho the rate It ID Is l said of ot bout gallons per p r minute The News Newn was WM w s In communication with Supt shortly after arter noon today nd from him It was learned that thero Is no change In the situation from tram yesterday but heroic efforts are ao being made to open the tho closed channel although It II Is l realized the work Is III ex extremely extremely dangerous yet et every eer tion Is It taken to prevent any loss of ot life Just what levels the tho Hooded flooded Mr Hood was unable to say as no one otle had hud bep b el down in the shaft ehaet all alt energy being displayed In th the tho opening of the tunnel As soon won as an the cave In was wan discovered Foreman Connelly on last Sunday di dl directed directed tho the of at the shaft This him was won accomplished heli before tho the waters had backed up with the volume to Interfere The Tue purpose of the bulkhead was to relieve the pressure against tho the ob obstruction down the tho tunnel and prevent a t I sudden breaking away of ot the Im Imprisoned Imprisoned waters the consequence of or which would be the devastation of ot otman many man ranches and farms In Ill tho valley below b low I The extent of ot the cave cne cannot bo be S de do determined Jut but ut that If It Is U enormous there Is Js not the tho slightest doubt na nit tho the thoI round ground I Is of ot a character r likely III ely to cause a treat reat deal of ot trouble In Park City today the situation Is U viewed with Intense alarm as It may cause the closing down of other mine In lii tho the camp ot or or at least leant a 11 vast cur curtailing curtailing curtailing tailing of ot production The rite lower ower level levels of ot the where tho the principal extraction Is In com corn coming corning ing from at nt the present time are re likely to become flooded but General Man Manager ager ngel Ernest Hamberger has hils hopes of ot the avenue being cleared before any stick lIch disaster occurs It U will probably take several days for tor the water waler to raise I to 10 the point paInt where It would drive out I the miners millers hut but the present outlook Is la anything but hut encouraging The market for tho the stock was visibly vl effected to ta today tIny day both here anT and ane in It the tho east cast The Th Sliver Silver King Is also In danger lunger canger of ot flood flooding ing lug on the lower levels As to the work on In the tue Daly mine It will wi not be Interfered with as n It Is being car carS carried nod ried on In a u part of ot the mine where the thin water Is II not likely kely to reach The rave cove occurred at al a u point where much difficulty was encountered whIle hll the tho tunnel was under construction Tim Tho TI present pre ent pumping facilities of the On Ontario tario tarlo Ire are Inadequate to handle tho the volume of or Wlter ater coming Into Inta the mine mineso so 50 0 there here Is no way to pi event tho the flood floodIng ing of or the underground workings ex ax except e ept by removing the tho barrier battler In the tunnel |