Mine rescuers find no signs of life

The massive rescue effort to find six coal miners caught in a cave-in took a disheartening turn when a narrow hole drilled more than 1,800ft into the earth yielded no sounds of life and barely any oxygen.

The drill entered an area where the miners were thought to be working at the time of Monday’s collapse near Huntingdon, Utah. Mine chiefs had earlier thought their drill had simply hit a sealed, abandoned area of the mine that had little oxygen.