Mountain struggle to save trapped miners

Rescue crews clinging to a Utah mountainside struggled to drill two narrow holes in a painfully slow effort to get air and food to six miners trapped in a cave-in.

Mountain struggle to save trapped miners

Rescue crews clinging to a Utah mountainside struggled to drill two narrow holes in a painfully slow effort to get air and food to six miners trapped in a cave-in.

Officials held out hope that the men survived Monday’s thunderous collapse and that the emergency supplies would help keep them alive while other rescuers tried to punch their way through the rubble in the mine shaft near Huntingdon and bring them out.

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