Rescuers within 1,000 feet of trapped miners
Crews hoping to get food and air to six coal miners drilled to within about 1,000 feet of the trapped men today, one of the mine’s owners said, though it still was not known whether the miners were alive.
Rescuers cutting a larger hole to the chamber where the men were believed to be also might reach the spot in two days, said Bob Murray, chairman of Murray Energy Corp., owner of the Crandall Canyon mine.
