All hope was not lost．Soon after the quakes, the army sent 150,000 1 to Tangshan to help the rescue workers．Hundreds of thousands of people were 2 ．The army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the 3 ．To the north of the city, most of the 10,000 miners were 4 from the coal mines there．Workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed． 5 water was taken to the city by train, truck and plane．Slowly, the city began to breathe again．
