AUSTIN, Texas — Two men are presumed to be dead in a collapsed ... The workers have not yet been identified. They were digging a trench for a sewer line in the 13700 block of Interstate 35 ...

A foreman and an excavator witnessed the trench collapse, said Nick Spinetto, a spokesman for the city of Jarrell. The two men who died were digging a sewer line for a housing project.

The men, who were working in the trench for a sewer line ... came from all over Williamson County and the Austin area to help dig out the men. “I couldn’t be more proud of the responses ...

He said first responders were called to the scene at about 6:47 p.m. DR Drummond said he was one of three men working to dig a trench to replace a sewer line at a home. He was spotting while the ...

The two men -- one of whom worked for Steuer Excavating based out of Morgan Township -- were digging a trench to help relieve a sump pump. Faherty's body was pulled from the ditch about 5:30 p.m ...

The sides of the trench collapsed, burying them. A police officer tried to dig them out but couldn’t save them. The men worked for Construction Specification Solutions, a privately owned Arizona ...

"Our men and women are having to build basically boxes in the trench to shore it up and make it safer. And then they have to start digging, and sometimes that means little garden-like shovels ...