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Show Ktsays h entombed S K Lit ind to Assume Miners he Not Overcome By Gases ES HIS REASONS' L Air, He Says Is Enter-ig Enter-ig Lower Levels of 1 Argonaut jcon Cal . Smi l ' Bj the Ud Press.) -Dr L H Di hoiuUmK ) nil a I engineer of industrial a Idenl om- l today issued a signed state-, I nhkh lie pi ' ' d that the ft, , ntombed for I 5 da ys in in. n " rc Is ground for assuming that a uvJe.- v nind v. ! n t over- r tlr polsonou - I fi "Hi the nc an-i u-.ai these ga a e lie; (iirovj n ' parts o( i he Vhkh th nn u sought refuge.' stati rn ni -aid the rncmomndum of S p1 toDt'mud. "pari i ular altcnl Ion 5 given to t to nipllns; of gas p from Inf. mine th;ougli the I ib- H" l Sample" it thh point an undl ot I 1 J face lii ut a mix- t" r. lie fin B various underground source1' Ingle "a the lower eVels and o 1 e Krlea of i aises f foul evel - .ni- Pwptem-b?rf Pwptem-b?rf ha- bi i n n gradual diminu-I diminu-I the amount ol carbon dioxide Ifbon iiicinoM'it- in th.s i;as and su-? In oxygen. iSOOV PRO . tATAL. It far la ull highly pi 1 sohous ft pre, r,. oi t in- i rbon moll liJ nrbon ii(oxldr in the quan-'ven quan-'ven above would prove fa;al t rtiort time kclallons from llo lor. :ill-IndKutf- i h.i i iboui i . poo nds nflfr minuu i being consumed I fire zT,f. Ten dayi i go t he y was approxim tely twenty e ?n i analyst" i herefor Bhrc has l i en n sllghl dlmlnu-s dlmlnu-s the fire, hut thi-i . - never-t never-t ffins'.derable amount of "'otrs- un.l. rcrowml STEAM is NOTKI). tM ' onilnR up 'hi o.i-h the It the 400 foot level has I i Wtlvr-ly clear and fn from during the greater part of tm-Pj tm-Pj !0 oc aslotiH sin September P5erab'f' x"' "' ' 1,1 wfls Lttdlratin? th:it :it. . Is p.-ne-fPJr.s of thi flr none, raakin r-.-1 . n . n :.oiim pi ions in lo the composition of ..,v , ,,,,, tn 'he fire 7r.n0. h Is po l estlm iii the volutin of thlf I l ' th- voiuir.f oi 1 elatlvely ''ni h 1 mingling with u in per evels Por.nldernllon of Jlndlea:ep that th.- volunio of PH Iron, the fire zone docs Op more lhan one half of rolumr. 1 omins up the ralsi "7 -orrls. 1500 uhi feel 01 " relatively Pure alr are )rob- hm, f ,he k,Uf r Is the roufJh th- old working and l Pjbat this air l8 keeping the 'S no reason for thinking Kr.uV,m' nl "f ,h" a,r ln the E r ,hf- r"i"' bav e ehanR-rnce ehanR-rnce the ! ,,. . of |