Six miners believed to be trapped inside collapsed mine in Central Utah

ABC4 ^ | 8/6/2007 | n/a

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From today's Salt Lake Tribune: "Crandall Canyon mine owner Robert Murray personally delivered the dreaded news Monday evening to the families of six miners trapped underground for two weeks: Their loved ones probably are dead."

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“”””The family members want Murray to continue the search. “He was causing them to lose hope. He was failing the miners,” Olsen said.
The families, he added, “are pleading for support from the community to convince Mr. Murray to continue drilling.” “”

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On Monday night, Murray defended MSHA and himself from criticism that they botched the rescue effort and needlessly put rescue workers at risk.

“There was absolutely nothing more that MSHA or Murray Energy or (mine co-owner) Utah American could have done to rescue these trapped miners,” he said. “And based on what we knew at the time, we did everything correctly. There were no mistakes.”

The missing miners’ families called the dead and injured who worked to find their loved ones their “heroes.”

“We didn’t want to get nobody killed; we still don’t want to get nobody hurt,” Sanchez said. “I work with those men, and I know they were digging. If they would have had to dig with their hands, they would have done it, because they wanted them other six men out alive.”

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This is the most tragic ‘catch 22’ for the families and rescuers. Are there any experienced family members willing to participate in further rescue efforts?