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Nine-year-old Megan Mento joins other local residents in prayer for nine miners trapped by an underground flood in the Quecreek Mine in Somerset County. Rescuers are racing against time to tunnel to survivors trapped 230 feet below ground before the miners suffocate or succumb to hypothermia. Next photo.

Photo by: V.W.H. Campbell Jr. / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (7/26/2002)