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Show FAVORABLY REPORTED. The New Edmunds Bill; May Como Up Immediately After the Holidays. Cnllom Introduces a Postal Telegraph Bill Wliicli Will be Considered . With Edmund's. A Late Dispatch This Afternoon Indi- cates Hope For the Imprisoned -, ' "V ' Miners."" .. , . .. , , An Awful Sunday Suspense.' , WrxKEsnAEBE, Pa., December 20. To-day was the gloomiest Sunday ever witnessed'in Nanticoke. ' Thousands", of people, poured into town on wheels, on horseback and. foot Hundreds of them - gathered in groups, arounds the various workings, where they discussed taV"vv':-C " SITUATION OF THE TMPBISONED MEN." A message was brought here from Nanticoke this morning to the effect that a man had been found in the gangway and that he had evidently been dead several hours. - At the company's office this was denied. They state the situation remains unchanged from yesterday,, though they hourly expect to reach the fatal spot, where the entombed men are supposed to be. The rescuing parties par-ties are continually at work. There is no hope of rescuing any of the victims alive. Wilkesbabbe, December 520. At 8 o'clock this evening the rescuing party struck a mass of wet sand, and twenty-five additional men were sent in to remove it with buckets as fast as it was thrown out. At 9 o'clock an official report was received at the company's com-pany's office here to the effect that the rescuing res-cuing party were then within twenty feet of the fatal chamber, and were HOPING TO BEACH THE IMPEISONED MEN By 11 o'clock. - Wilkesbabbe, December 21. There has baen no new developments since two o'clock this morning in regard to the entombed miners. The latest official message received at that hour was that the rescuing party, who are working on the gangway from the air shaft, had reached the first chamber, in which it was hoped that some of the men would be found. The air was good and apparently ap-parently fresh, but - NO SIGNS OF ANX LIVING PEBSON Were to be found. There are six other chambers cham-bers along the gangways, and it is thought the men may be found in one of them. A new gang of sixty men went into the mine at 6 o'clock this morning and are pushing forward with the utmost exertion, but it is hard to say when the next chamber can be reached. It is now fully believed that the missing men were caught in the sand and culm at the time the cave took place, and that they are now dead. . i The last messenger connected with the exploring party came out of the stope at 11:20 o'clook. He reports that none of the men have as yet been discovered and all hope of ever, seeing their comrades alive again has been abandoned. - They are making mak-ing vigorous search; but it appears almost certain that ; " ' THE UNFOBTUNATK MEN HAVE PEBIBHED, And that when their bodies are found they will be under a mass of sand and culm. Wilkesbabbe, December 21. At 1:30 this afternoon the relief party was still pushing towards the imprisoned men, being , spurred on by n fgnak received, which indicates indi-cates that THESE is life beyond. Tapping upon an air-pipe was heard by the rescuers, and they have naturally concluded that there are yet good grounds for the hope that at least some of the men may be rescued alive. It is the opinion of some of the best miners that they cannot reach the men for some days, owing to the extent of the obstructions. Others are sanguine enough to expect they will reach the men within the next ten hours. |