DRENNEN — Emergency responders have made three dive attempts to reach a miner trapped deep inside a flooded Nicholas County coal mine, authorities said.

A mining crew hit an unknown pocket of water Saturday about three-quarters of a mile into the Rolling Thunder mine near Drennen, Nicholas County Commissioner Garrett Cole said in a Facebook post.

All the other miners on the team — 17, according to Nicholas County Commissioner Gary Roberts — were accounted for after the accident was reported to the county emergency management department at about 1:30 p.m. Saturday. It wasn’t clear how extensive the flooding is inside, but Roberts on Monday said, "when the water rushed in, it moved [a continuous miner machine] weighing 80,000-100,000 lbs."

West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey said in a s

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