No sign of life from trapped miners, but hope remains

US News

Aug 10, 2007, 12:55 GMT

Washington - Hopes for a sign of life from the six miners trapped underground in a coal mine in the western state of Utah seemed to wane on Friday. Rescuers had managed early on Friday morning to send a microphone through a 6-centimetre wide hole and a 500-metre pit down into the mine, where the men were suspected trapped. However, the microphone did not transmit any sounds. Nevertheless, experts were still hoping to find the six men alive after the mine collapsed on Monday. Measurements had shown that the air in the mine was very good - good enough to breathe, the owner of the mine near Huntington, Robert Murray, said. These were very good news, he said: 'It means, that if they're alive they'll stay alive.' Dennis O'Dell of the US miners' union, meanwhile, told CNN it was possible that the miners had been too far away from the microphone to even know it existed, given the size of the mine. 'We still have reason to hope,' O'Dell said. While the microphone stayed in the mine on Friday, rescue workers were drilling a second hole with a larger diameter, hoping to break through the mine's ceiling by Saturday morning GMT at the latest. The rescuers were planning to send a rotating video camera through the slot down into the mine and later also food for the missing men. Rescue teams were also digging further through the collapsed tunnel towards the miners, who are suspected trapped 6.5 kilometres off the mine's entrance in complete darkness and cold. Murray thinks the miners could be reached by Tuesday. The tunnel collapsed on Monday for yet unexplained reasons. Murray insists that an earthquake was the cause, but geologists believe that their seismological equipment picked up the tunnel's collapse, which was then registered as ground motion. © 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

Your Talkback on this Story

Note posts made on our older Talkback system will still show below. However, new posts can only be made via the new system (above). We will export the old comments to the new shortly. You can still comment as a guest on the new system but it also allows you to login using various social network and other accounts.

Other features coming soon.

Talkback

page: 1

Jimbo EnglandAug 10th, 2007 - 13:35:23

Keeping these men in our prayers and thorghts. And hope that God willing they will be found Alive and well as canbe expected under the circumstances.

Report this comment

nickAug 10th, 2007 - 15:09:51

First Off if you believe in gods wrath, then you are brain washed and are a prisoner to your religion. Secondly, they dont deserve to die, and i bet you 'gods wrath' have used oil and gas to support your life, so you are also destroying the earth, you idiot!

Report this comment

JCSAug 10th, 2007 - 15:20:23

To Gods Wrath
You need to come down here to Texas and your comment in public. You just might get your wish and meet your allah. However I know you will only burn in hell but that works for me too.

Report this comment

what?Aug 10th, 2007 - 16:43:17

It's Gaia you lemmings, not God or Allah. And those poor people wouldn't be trapped in that mine if we weren't still being stupid and using coal! Our planet is dying, and we're still burning that crap? It's our society's fault that they may be dead. We need to stop that kind of polluting, and people wouldn't get trapped in mines anymore. I feel so sorry for their wives and children right now, it must be awful. When is this going to stop?

Report this comment

Tori OhnoAug 10th, 2007 - 19:22:56

RE: what?

A fellow pagan? Rock on!! I totally agree.

Report this comment

AlexpbpOct 3rd, 2007 - 20:51:11

If you want do delete your site from our spam bases - just email us with domain of your site:

abuse-here@inbox.ru

thank you!

Report this comment

sweeta-nlMar 27th, 2008 - 15:23:57

Sorry, but what is kimerikas?

Jane.

Report this comment

Albina-kxJun 5th, 2008 - 21:36:05

Report this comment