Entombed in Mine
ONE MAN DIES
Frantic Efforts to Rescue
Two Others
WIVES STANDING BY
By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright.
MOOSE RIVER (Nova Scotia),
Relieved to have been drowned when a diamond-drilled hole revealed flood noises, three Toronto men entombed by the cave-in at the Moose River gold mine since Easter Sunday startled rescuers with shouts up a five-inch opening.
The Premier, Mr Angus Macdonald, knelt in the mud to ask through tho tube what was needed. Tho men had been without food, water and light for eight days, and they begged for soup. Coffee, food, flashlights, candles, medicine and a pocket microphone were lowered.
The wives of Dr. E. D. Robertson and Mr Herman Magill talked to them both.
The men said they could hold out tor 10 hours. Their wives shouted: ‘‘We’ll soon reach you.” The third buried man was Mr Alfred Scadding, An hour later Dr. Robertson reported that Mr, Magill was dead.
In defiance of death, and without sleep for 48 hours, a hundred workers led by skilled rock miners brought by plane from Ontaric frantically continued digging aftei the cave-in had led the Minister of Mines to order them out.
They were within five feet of a 140foot level where the men are entombed, but the direction had been miscalculated and they had to drive a crosscut tunnel. ,
Meanwhile, food was sent down but was not taken. Dr. Robertson explained that they were forced aloft on ladders by the flood and they were too weak to descend to the tube.
The workers are redoubling their tf forts.
Dr. Robertson is famed for his surgery at the Toronto Sick Children’s Hospital, Mr Magill was a barrister and Mr Seadding an accountant. The three had purchased the abandoned mine.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 110, 22 April 1936, Page 8
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