The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-08-25

Rat the majority q the bodies bear no
marks ~ as. not even scra tch. and thar
features we're in quiet rcpose. indieatins
that their death had been spSeay anl
painless ore.
As soon IS the alarm whistle sounded
from TIE engine house. people began tn
crowd around the mouth of the slope. ana
the cry The mine is on nrs,~ quickly
spread throughput the town.
raouGaT nx VAS JOKING.
Among the hrSt - reach the scene WAS
superintendent " 7. Ramsey. lie tvie.f
10 appear uncoacernea and really ala nos
believe any lives would be lost. ana ina
crowd Of men. women and childrea Of both
eoloFs, who lived near the track round
shout becoming reaSsured az the careless.
and good-natured manner of tho sauerin-
sendent, began to tseas the whole affair as
enge Joke. laughing and '.joshins" each
other In short time, however. word
came for help. and then, when the super.
intendeni called for volunteers TO go into
the mine. there was great excitement
The hrst man to volunteer was 1eorge
W. Smalley, negro. aad with two others
he was lowered down the /, I,t0oAfoot slope
10 the sixth level. There he met me
from the sixth level south, who were doing
all they could TO rescue the men on the
north side Of the same level. Other res
caers went down from the surface, and
smaliey. G. G. Todd, John Adams and
John Morgan found the body OF the FIRST
man IN the gaugway, about i.oo0 feet in
from the slope. The body proved 70 10
that OF John Q. Anderson. aud il was
pulled TO the top of the slope.
FIRST Ronx EEouaHr our.
The arrival of Anderson's body on the
surface was the first intlmation 10 the
men, women and children on the surface
that any one had met death. Consc-
quently when the body was carried away
there was q wild scramble to discover its
identity. When il was found the rescuers
were beseigned with questions from moth
ers, fathers and children concerning loved
ones who were imprisoned. Bat their
questions were only answered by an omin-
Gus shake Of the head. Ii was az first
thought that Anderson was not dead. but
after being worked with for ten or fifteen
minutes aud no signs of life appearing he
was given 40.
Meanwhile the miners from the other
levels were carrying on the work of rescue
in the bowls OF the earth. The fan keep
stopped at the first indication OF fire from
the return air-eourse. but when the res
cuers went TO work the fan was started
mp and thus the air in that part OF the
gangway south OF breast sixty-two on the
sixth level was kept pure.
WINDING THE BoDTxs
NJ. d. Story, one OF the rescuers vho
went in from. the surface, upon reaching
q H.. \. II -
way. At 1000 feet in be found the frat
body. aud then the rest of the miners were
found scattered along in row. la one
place eight men were found together, and
IN another one man was found under a
mule. Eve mules IN all being dead. Story
says that the men were all lying in the
middle Of the gangway with their faces in
the mud, as II they had tried TO bury their
heads completely and thus escape the
deadly and noxious coal smoke. lie
could not believe that they were dead. and
turned them with their faces up so they
could breathe. but he was soon satisfied
that they were dead. Nearly all the
bodies were found south Of the burning
breast.
John G. Story. brother of M. ID. Story.
was at work in the sixth level south, when
a boy named Chapman gave tho alarm
that breast sixty-two was on fire. Story
says he tried TO escape via the Green river,
or auxiliary slope, but finding this
Impractical. he returned, making
up his mind that he would get
ont via the main slope. Reaching the
main slope, he met others from the sixth
level south who were going into the north
level to do what they could to rescue their
imprisoned comrades. and ne Joined them,
working steadily for two aud one-haif
hours before coming 70 the surface. IL il
his opinion that every man i'm line with