UPDATE: This is the last thing they needed (via Guardian Unlimited).
UPDATE: Rescuers are halfway there (via Guardian Unlimited)
UPDATE: FOX News says that rescuers should reach the men by tonight (Thursday night). Pray it's not too late.
UPDATE: To make matters worse, it appears that the drill they were using may have gone off course, and might have missed the area where they were trapped. via the LA Times.
UPDATE: The Salt Lake Tribune says a second drill has punched through to where the miners are believed to be.
UPDATE: After their second attempt failed to locate the miners, rescuers will make a third attempt (via ABC News).
UPDATE: (From Reuters)--Although they managed to drill the hole to where they think the miners are, the microphone they were trying to thread down there got stuck. They will have to bring in equipment to shore up the hole.
UPDATE: More tragedy. Three workers killed, six more injured during second cave-in. (From Washington Times):
HUNTINGTON, Utah (AP) – The search for six miners missing deep underground was abruptly halted after a second cave-in killed three rescue workers and injured at least six others who were trying to tunnel through rubble to reach them.Operations
It was a devastating turn for the families of the six men trapped in the Aug. 6 collapse at the Crandall Canyon mine and for the relatives of those trying to rescue them. It's not known if the trapped miners are alive.[...]The cave-in at 6:39 p.m. was caused by a mountain bump in which pressure can force chunks of coal from walls of the mine with great force. Seismologists say such a bump caused the Aug. 6 cave-in that trapped the six men more than three miles inside the central Utah mine. That led to the frenetic effort by rescuers to dig through the mine toward the men and drill narrow holes atop the mountain in an attempt to learn their whereabouts and perhaps drop down food and water.
