On Wednesday, Elizabeth Pollard's son, Axel Hayes, said in an interview with CBS News that he was going through a range of emotions. “I'm worried that she hasn't been found yet and I'm worried. I wonder if she's down where she is down there or if she's somewhere else, safer,” Hayes said. “I hope she's alive and well, that she'll make it. That my niece still has a grandmother and that I still have a mother I can talk to.”
Over the past few days, hundreds of thousands of Americans have watched the search for Pollard on screen using excavators, cameras and devices to record sounds at a depth of at least ten meters. The “Marguerite Mine,” which lies partially beneath the restaurant parking lot, was decommissioned in 1952. It is one of more than 11,000 mines in Pennsylvania that once mined coal, iron and other mineral resources.
