8 o'clock
Happily there was no actual trouble , though the crowd was getting ugly , for , a little more than two hours later , there came the cheering news that a supporting gang of rescue workers had driven a new gallery through one of the pillars of coal , and that union with the old line was effected . Again a faint rumble ! Hopes dropped once more , but , after a brief inspection , the mining engineer reported that the fall had taken place in another part of the mine and that there was no immediate danger . At 8 o'clock that evening , voices could be faintly heard . An hour later , using a megaphone , the rescuers made the survivors hear that help was near them . `` How many of you are there ? '' Thinly , so thinly that the voice could scarcely be heard , came back the answer : `` Three . ''