GAMBLE WITH DEATH

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 98, 22 October 1913, Page 7

GAMBLE WITH DEATH

RESCUERS AT THE UNIVERSAL MINE FAREWELL MESSAGES TO NEAREST AND DEAREST WILLS MADE. (By Telegraph.— Preu AssooUtlon.— Copyright.) (Times— Sydney Sun Spcolal Cables,) (Received October 22, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, 21st October. It has been learned that when the first rescuers were about to descend into the Universal Colliery, a conference of experts was held to decide the mode of procedure. It was recognised that those descending were risking their lives. The seven men chosen rose from the table and went to different parts of the room, where they wrote farewell messages to their nearest and dearest. Three made their wills, knowing they were engaged in a- gamble with death. *>•'«! (Press Asßootatlon). A%fcUOUS AND 1 PERILOUS. HEAT RENDERS~~RESCUE WORK , DIFFICULT. LONDON, 21st Ootober. The most arduous and perilous part of the rescuers' exploration of the Senghenydd mine has now been completed. One fire has been extinguished, while unothor has been screened by barriers of Band-bags. The heat renders the work difficult, but the three main arteries to the distant workings of the mine are now open to the rescuers, who are only stopped by an impenetrable canopy of gas, wnich is being withdrawn at the rate of several yards per hour. The reacuerß are two-thirds of a mile from the spot where, it is expeoted, the missing men will be found.