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Show Nine Men Buried in Cave-In, Kept Alive By TwO'Inch Air Pipe. Seattle, Feb. 23. A two-inch piece of pipe Is keeping nine men alive by furnishing them with air until they j I can be rescued from a tomb thirty-four thirty-four feet beneath the surfaco of the earth. These men were burled by a cave-In on the north trunk of the sewer line within the ground of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition at 1 o'clock today, and although the work of rescue Is going on with all dispatch, It will be 10 o'clock tonight or later before the Imprisoned laborers can be reached. By means of the pipe, which was sunk through the soft earth, the entombed en-tombed men receive air and 'can be communicated with. Dan Roberts Is dead, and one of tho crcw.nainc unknown, un-known, has not been accounted for. Tho following shoutej their names through the narrow shaft and declared they were all right and confident they could hold out until liberated: Harrington. Dan Horn. Gregory. Mahoney. Zlssers. Zlssers. McGlnnls. Tlmberlako. Qulellen. The Imprisoned men joked with those outside to keep up their courage. They are In a narrow chamber about thirty feet long. j Inspector C. B. Worley. in charge of , tho work, declares they are in no Ini-. Ini-. mediate danger unless" there is a :?o ond cave-in. The tunnel at the point where the men are Is thirty-four feet beneath the surface, and two gangs are at work digging, one from above and the other through the loose earth In the shaft. |