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Show MKTRIGTO ' RESCUE A WORKER 4 Salt Lake, Sept. 17. Three hundred miners in the Alta district arc fighting fight-ing deadly carbon dioxide gas In an attempt to reach Jack Hendrlckson, a miner, who Is lying overcome in thc long crosscut leading from the Alta tunnel Into the Albion mine. Sinco early yesterday the miners have been trying without success to go to Hendrickson's aid, and it is now prauuca.iiy curiam mat. rienuricKBOii is dead. All of tho mines in the Alta district were closed down and everyone In the district is aiding in trying to get Into the crosscut to the breast where Tlendrickson, equipped with an oxygen helmet, went early vesterday to repair a broken valve on the air line. The Wasatch Power company's plant is pumping air into the mine at thc highest possible pressure, and it Is hoped that by this morning the mine will be cleared of gas sufficiently sufficient-ly to permit rescuers to reach Hendrlckson. Hen-drlckson. Captain Overcome. Accompanying Hendrickson when he went into the mine yesterday to repair the valve was Captain Andrew E. Eikrem of thc Salt Lake City fire department. Both wore oxygen helmets, hel-mets, of the type used by firemen and also by those engaged in mine rescue work. . Captain Eikrem was overcome by tho gas despite the helmet and was rescued by miners who braved the gas to reach him when they heard him tapping on the air pipe He-was He-was half suffocated when removed from the mine, but is now recovering. recover-ing. While attempting to reach Eikrem Sol Snyder, superintendent of the Albion Al-bion mine, was overcome by the gas and taken out of the mine. Several attempts were then made to reach Hendrickson, who was further in the cross-cut than Eikrem, but all efforts proved unavailing The gas, in increasing in-creasing volume, drove the rescuers farther and farther back from their objective. |