6 miners still trapped... BREAKING NEWS: New bad news??

[chadtm80]

Turn on Fox news and Please send a prayer.. The first pipe is set to break through to where the miners are any minute now. The miners are trained to bang on that pipe the minute it breaks through to let rescuers know they are still alive. If they are still alive they know the pipe is coming as there is no doubt they would be able to hear the drilling.. Keep in mind it is about 50 degrees down there and any battery power lights they had would be dead by now. Just terrible. Please Please Please say a prayer

[Stephanie]

I'm praying really hard!

[angelwing]

Me too!!!!

[JonathanBelles]

Expected to reach them at 2am EST.

[JonathanBelles]

The first drill has broken through

[Brent]

Microphone down there but no sounds picked up yet... owner of the mine does say the air samples came back "very good"

[chadtm80]

Still nothing.. Truly a sad night. Those poor family members

[JonathanBelles]

looks like they missed the cavity. no sound and low oxygen.

[Brent]

I think they've been dead since the collapse Monday. They would have heard some sounds by now.

[Opal storm]

If they are dead, I hope it was quick for them. Thoughts and prayers to their families through all this.

[Stephanie]

I'm trying to stay hopeful but...

[mf_dolphin]

Still no good news

[Jinkers]

My prayers to them and their families...

[Brent]

Unknown noise from the mine!!!!

[JonathanBelles]

they heard noise and they will be doing a 4th hole in the morning.

[brunota2003]

Earlier Wednesday, some noise was detected by devices monitoring vibrations in the mountain, raising "a very small amount" of hope that the men might be found alive, officials said.

The sounds detected by two geophones could be a rock breaking underground or even an animal, said Richard Stickler, chief of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration.

"We saw some indication of noise for a period of about five minutes that we had not seen before," Stickler said.

While the source of the noise wasn't known, Stickler said it had "created a very small amount of hope and optimism" among the families.

There are a total of six geophones on the mountain, all of which picked up measured noise Wednesday morning, some stronger than others, Murry said. The vibrations occurred every 1.5 seconds, in a steady pattern for five minutes, he said.

"We have no idea what that sound is, but we are going to know when we get the fourth hole down there," Murray said.

Plans for the location of a fourth borehole, to begin Thursday, had changed because of the "unusual" noise readings, both men said.

Murray, who is chief of Murray Energy Corp., the co-owner and operator of the Crandall Canyon Mine, also cautioned: "Don't read too much into this noise we picked up, but it is a sign of hope."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070816/ap_ ... e_collapse

If they were steady vibrations in the same pattern for nearly 5 minutes...that sounds like something unnatural [ie rocks breaking or an animal digging or something similar]. Sounds like, to my uneducated self, that someone down there found something to signal with and figured they would give it a shot. We'll find out hopefully tomorrow, and with God's good grace, we'll find all 6 of them huddled together alive and in good health on the other side of the ventalition curtain.

[Stephanie]

AMEN Brunota!!

[Brent]

Ambulances on scene... UNCONFIRMED reports of a 2nd collapse. It doesn't sound like good news, mine owner says "emergency situation"

[JonathanBelles]

Ambulances called to the mine, breaking news on CNN/FOX. In emergency situyation.

[Jinkers]

I think another part of the mine collasped, where the rescue operation is, not sure, just turned it on, this is terrible.