| Show were taken from a tunnel by a boat new york dec 19 thi aliat dorels morels 0 o be spoken to their by the two men imprisoned forty feet deep in the pennsylvania tunnel through the iron pipe came at noon today for gods sake hurry up was the message the speaker said no more than this to indicate what his plight might be the rescuing party then had only seven teet more to drill through the cement root of the tunnel chero the men have been buried for ag hoursh the message was transmitted through the pipe which is being asedo pump air into the tunnel it was expected that several hours would be required 0 o dig through the cement barbler barr ler the two men been buried in the east river tunnel for nearly forty hours were taken out this afternoon rescuers penetrated the tunnel in a boat workmen are still attempting to force a hole through the cement roof of the tunnel and it is thought that still other men are in the tube when the rescued workmen had re covered sufficiently tp jcak intelligently they said they were the only men caught in the and the rea cucas ceased wark the sh att which was being pushed through the concrete new york dec 19 two men bur aed forty feet deep in a tunnel facing dejah in three different forms by starvation suffocation or drowning and about of their comrades a few teet above them digging against time to save their lives was the siti nation today nt the pennsylvania railroad tunnel jn long island city for more than thirty hours these workmen have been entombed in this tunnel by the cave in of its mouth and it is by no means certain that there are only two men burled the police of long island city say there are six the tunnel Is being built under the east aher to manhattan lan hattan island but the entombed men are not under the liver bed they arp sealed up in the approach under long island city and it is reported that the water aiom the river which now fills the part of the tunnel directly under the river bed is kept back from them by the force of the compressed air pumped into their prison chamber the workmen that the water must have flowed into the part of the tunnel where their comrades aie buried and that they have saved themselves from its rise by climbing upon a ledge of rocks near the roof of the tunnel tho rescuer are finking a forty foot deep shaft straight toward the roof of the tunnel as near to the place where the workmen are supposed to be as 5 possible to estimate it this shaft is not very close to the men there Is danger when it at hw pierces the cement roof that all the work will have been in aln that the compressed air will be released and allow the water to engulf the men before their comrades can take them out the life shaft was thirty feet deep today but there were still about ten test of solid conchete conci ete forming the roof of the tunnel to be pierced thi is work of severa 1 houis involving the use of dynamite to expedite it if at any time the signal of th buried men became taint and indicated that something had gone wrong in their tunnel chamber they signaled incessantly by rippling ng on the iron pipes through which air is being pumped to them watching eveia move of ahe diggers from the mouth of the life bhart last night was mrs frank cale the wife of one of the men believed to be in the tunnel today she was joined by her four children to watch the final piercing of the tunnel what will be done at the moment when the tunnel roof is opened has gauged the workers much worry it ha been planned to hae divers ready to enter the hole if the water rises too high and at least be pio pared to drop a boat through the opening in case the men are not near enough to be reached by any other means |
