Tunnel Cave-In

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Remember a couple of slides back we were looking into the entrance of a collapsed tunnel, well you guessed it, this is the other end. The contrast is too great for the camera to capture what's inside so you'll just have to trust that it goes in about 100 yards before it hits the cave-in. There are piles of splintered timbers all along the tunnel's length. Main shoring beams measure 14" by 14" by 20', not something one gets at the local lumber yard. The forces must have been tremendous to break such massive shoring. I ask again, I wonder how many died for the cause?