Forty hours of digging to reach the two survivors.
Caption: Forty hours of digging to reach the two survivors. This photo, taken 200 feet underground, shows the fallen earth (in the background) which blocked the tunnel and buried the three men whose photos appear in the centre of the page. The truck in the foreground was one of those used to carry away the spoil.
Description:
Green and Hahn (photographer)
Source: The weekly press, 15 Oct. 1925, p. 28
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