MINERS STILL IN PERIL
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LENGEDE (West Germany), Oct. 31. Three men, entombed in an air bubble 300 feet down a flooded iron mine at Lengede for seven nights, have been told that a rescue shaft will reach them about noon today.
If all goes well, rescuers will be lowered to the miners in a capsule.
One by one the survivors of last Thursday’s disasterin which water and mud flooded into the mine from a broken reservoir—will be hauled slowly to the surface. They will still be in peril, because to keep back the flood waters they have had to endure twice the normal atmospheric pressure. Doctors at Lengede believe
no-cne has had to do this before for so long. A decompression chamber has been prepared in which the miners will have to spend several hours once they have reached the surface. Only then will they be reunited with their wives and families. The three men—Gerhard Hanusch, aged 43, Emil Pohlay, aged 34, and Fritz Leder, aged 26—are in an air pocket ait the end of a gallery which toes below the flood level. Hope has been abandoned for 40 other miners trapped by the flood.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30277, 1 November 1963, Page 13
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