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Show I CHAMBER OF DEATH. Twenty-Xine Coal Miners Imprisoned in a Living Tomb. The "Dolphin" Leaves Her Anchorng-e This Morning for a Sixty Days' Crnise. Two Thousand Men Congregated to Lynch a Black Outrajrer. To the Ilescue of Xliowo miners, ' Wilkesbabhe, Fenn., December 18. Information In-formation received here at 11:30 to-night from Naticoke says the water has subsided in the mine where the Hungarian miners are imprisoned, and a large force of men are at work removing the quicksand that brocks, the gangway. The rescuing party are now within forty feet of the men, and have strong hopes of reaching them by morning. The damage to the mine will, be extensive, and it will be some weeks before work is resumed. re-sumed. WrxKESBABBE, Pa.; December 19. The outlook at No. 1 stope this morning is frightful. Mine Inspector Williams says that if the men can be reaohed in eighteen hours they will be found alive. Total exhaustion ex-haustion will not occur before then, and the chance of rescue is this morning very slim, from the fact that THE A IB CIBCLE HAS BEEN BROKEN. This was ascertained by the second rescuing party working at the opposite end from the first party in stope No. 1. Superintendent Morgan finds that there are sixty-seven feet of quicksands and earth to be dug away. This is mixed with mine timbers.which have sprung inward and crossed, presenting an almost insurmountable bsrrier. Shifts are now changed evary two hours, but the culm and quicksand, by its very nature, falls in the place of that which was taken out before. be-fore. Extreme authority says it will require FIVE OB SIX DATS TO DIG THBOUGH. This ends all hope of the twenty-nine men now imprisoned, who, it is belived, died within the first twelve hours from suffocation. suffoca-tion. Sixteen English, Irish and Welsh, and thirteen Polanders and Hungarians are now known to be entombed in the chamber of death. |