Show ACCIDENT IN A TUNNEL thirty men had narrow escapes from drowning new york july 3 thirty men at work in the Belmon fc tunnel acot under dio east alvor and about from the manhattan shaft second narrowly escaped drown yesterday when a of the river bed slipped in tho tunnel heading permitting war to flood the completed of one of the tubes this tunnel is now flooded between the heading the air locks so that work on it had to be suspended yesterday tho engineers engi neeri thought last night that the water carried sufficient mud and clay info the rock fissures to choke off the leak if that theory Is correct it will be easy to pump out the water and itsume work after the leak has been plugged from the river side the men who narrowly escaped drowning ran to the air locks when they heard tho warning cry of their foreman all but two got into the lower locks the two who did not had to do somo swimming before they reached the top air lock nn emergency lock the cause of the accident was due to the encountering of sand in rock fissures |