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Saving Trapped Miners Could Take Days

'Pray, pray, pray,' pleads mine official

By Dustin Lushing,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 7, 2007 4:31 AM CDT

(Newser) – It could take days to reach six miners stuck 1,500 feet underground in a collapsed Utah coal mine, rescuers warned yesterday. No contact has been made with the miners, though they're believed to be trapped in a spot with adequate air and water. "Pray, pray, pray," begged the president of the company that owns the mine.

The miners "know where they're at; it's just a matter of getting to them," said the local sheriff. Rescuers are throwing themselves into every available method of finding the victims, the Deseret News reports, including boring straight through the mountain above them and navigating a warren of unused mine shafts.

A map shows the Crandall Canyon Mine on Monday, Aug. 6, 2007, northwest of Huntington, Utah. Hundreds of rescuers broke through walls of rock Monday in a desperate race to reach six coal miners trapped 1,500 feet below ground by a cave-in at the Crandall Canyon mine. (AP Photo/Douglas...
A map shows the Crandall Canyon Mine on Monday, Aug. 6, 2007, northwest of Huntington, Utah. Hundreds of rescuers broke through walls of rock Monday in a desperate race to reach six coal miners trapped...   (Associated Press)
Robert Murray, right, chairman of Murray Energy Corp. of Cleveland, a part owner of the Crandall Canyon mine speaks with the media about the ongoing efforts to save 6 miners trapped in the collapsed mine Monday, Aug. 7, 2007, in Huntington, Utah. Doug Johnson, left,  director of corporate services at...
Robert Murray, right, chairman of Murray Energy Corp. of Cleveland, a part owner of the Crandall Canyon mine speaks with the media about the ongoing efforts to save 6 miners trapped in the collapsed mine...   (Associated Press)
Doug Johnson, director of corporate services for Murray Energy Corp., and company vice president Rob Moore talk about the six trapped coal miners at the entrance to the Crandall Canyon Mine on Monday, Aug. 6, 2007, northwest of Huntington, Utah. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)
Doug Johnson, director of corporate services for Murray Energy Corp., and company vice president Rob Moore talk about the six trapped coal miners at the entrance to the Crandall Canyon Mine on Monday,...   (Associated Press)
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