Crews pull stranded miners 800 feet from NY salt mine

ITHACA, N.Y. (WIVB) — For more than 10 hours, 17 men sat huddled in a steel elevator, suspended more than 1500 feet off the floor of the deepest salt mine in the country.
Just about 800 feet above them, a small crew from a local company, engineered their only way back to the surface.
“I really didn’t know the conditions, but we really hoped that everyone would make it out in one piece,” David Smith, a crane operator for Auburn Crane and Rigging, said. “It was a