RESCUERS TRYING TO REACH MINERS Little Hope for Two of Men Held by U.S. Inspector by James A. Bryant Petros, Tenn., (AP) Men dug through a debris-choked coal mine shaft high on the face of a mountain today in an agonizing effort to reach three trapped miners. "Get me out," pleaded one of them, Herly Carroll, 18, from beneath the rubble more than nine hours after the old mine caved in on eight miners Friday an hour before they were to start a two-week vacation. Federal Mine Inspector Steve Bukovich said there was no hope of finding Charles Seiver, 23, and Charlie Kennedy, 28, alive. * * A doctor used a hacksaw to amputate the arm of Robert Woods, 19, who was pinned between the rocks and a coal car. He was taken to an Oak Ridge hospital in serious condition. Woods' father, Claude Woods, 47, suffered a fractured pelvis. The other three miners escaped serious injury. The mine, 2,300 feet up on the face of Fork Mountain in the Cumberland Mountains of east Tennessee, had been closed several years. The miners were taking out coal pillars and shoring up the mine, preparatory to reconditioning it for the Fork Mountain Mining Co. "It happened all at once," said Billy Rose. 54. "When we heard the noise we all started running and I passed one boy. And the rocks caught me. As soon as the rocks stopped falling, the other fellows came back to help us out". The caved-in shale covered an area about 100 feet long, 30 feet wide and 8 feet deep about 400 feet from the mine entrance, which is reached by an incline railway. * * Only three or four rescue workers, using hand tools, could get in the shaft at one time. As the rescue operation continued through the night, lights burned in every house in the mountain village of Fork Mountain. Relatives and friends clustered in small groups at the foot of the mountain. There was an air of expectation each time the lights of a rescue man could be seen starting down the incline railway, followed by disappointment when he brought no news of the trapped men. The mine is about 40 miles northwest of Knoxville. Ironwood Daily Globe, Ironwood, Michigan, June 24, 1961