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Show iIT MINERS mm dead ...n TO HAVE DIED WITHIN i"v HOURS AFTER ACCI-DENT ACCI-DENT HAPPENED on California, Is Scena . of ' Ltsomc Sight When Miners Are Brought to Top by Their Comrades kson Calif., .lackson, mining n in the Mother Lode country, has ) the toll demanded of those who n-e in the earth Cor gold and stands 'natraid hut not dry-eyed. ',orty seven of her men died In the r,0naiit mine early on the morning j August 2S she learned Monday. Bllt Jackson is unafraid, for her n showed they, knew how to die. "over, those who did not meet -a; fate showed they know how to 4' for they gave of themselves ; ;iAout stint in the effort to save ; .j,.jr entombed fellows. t was California's worst mine di-s-: ,iler, in one of California's greatest , ",j producers, and it was the hard-' hard-' A ,iw Jackson ever has had to '' -liter- ' For ninny weary days, disappointed 03ie times by unexpected diffueultles nd heartened sometimes by equally nexpected bits of good luck, rescue tews drove through the chocked tun- :e that once had connected the two ' l.;nes battered at the rock separat- "j- one of the Kennedy's drifts from ! ;'e Argonaut's 4200 foot level. Early 1 inday a drill was driven through j ,he last barrier of rock into the Ar-" Ar-" ;0Mllt. ' Sweating shoulders and unbreak-:. unbreak-:. ,ble mils drove steel pick at the ' nek until this hole bad been en- j-sed enough to permit a man to - --ass. Five men made a hasty and un- uthorized exploration of part of the jrgonattt, seeking survivors at the aminent risk of their own lives. The .pening was enlarged so that a res- ie crew could pass, and all day ex- 2 (iorations went on without any re-; re-; -ilt. The levels were clear, there was no .' .:gn of any miners left in them, eith--r dead or alive. The rescue men, tampered by their oxygen helmets and ne heat of the underground workings, ,' .irned their attention to exploring the - ije cross cuts and drifts leading !;om the tunnels already traversed, ijone they found a bulkhead that ' -id not been there when the miners lv -ent below that fatal midnight three 'sks ago. Hope rose anew at this evidence at some, at least of the entombed ::en had not died at instant death from the gases thrown off by the fire n the shaft, and the rescuers pressed :i They found another bulkhead, s ' U built of planks and timbers and jj i-.clfed with torn clothing like the first, but erected of earth, rocks and ' Hris. It was a pitiful structure, .iping in places so that the rescuers 3 raid see through it, but it checked ie air currents somewhat and the ': mi in the oxygen helmets halted be-" be-" !-re it, afraid to tear it down while the it before it was poisonous lest they itreby cause 3udden death to any J' 'to might be alive beyond it. Identification will be diffucult. The l;ngth of time since they died, the '-mperature of their casual tomb, the "to of the clothing they had torn off stuff into cracks in their first bulte- -'ad, combined to remove from most ! the bodies any distinguishing if., 'Uracteristic. |