The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-11
Thirty-Two Victims Of Conclusion and Fire
damp Are Mourned.
Nine Dead Bodies Are Yet to Be Taken From Collapsed
Heroic Work Of Rescue Still Going On-Mine Was Well
Ventilated and Cause Of Accident Unknown

Special Dispatch to the Post-Intelligencer.
CARBONADO, Dec. 1O-All yesterday. In
q downpour of rain, coal cars went creep
ing up the steep incline of the mining town
Of Carbonate and the depths Of the canyon
whence came the dead.
Twenty-three white shrouded figures have
been borne up from below, since the fatal
explosion. Of Saturday morning and nine
yet remain sealed in the treacherous depths
Of tunnel No. 7.
Rescue Work Dangerous.
A rescue force Of thirty to forty men Is
working night and day, and as the bodies
are reached and identified they are shroud-
ed and sent above to the morgue or to the
private homes they had so shortly before
left in the pride OF health ana strength. II
IL probable ive Of the nine bodies will not
be brought out until late tomorrow. as
they are in position rendering rescue
work dangerous
Corrected List Of Dead.
Following 10 corrected list Of thirty
twodead men. the last nine being those bod
les that have not yet been recovered: Leon-
ard Johnson; j. H. Jones, aged "a, leaves
a widow here and married daughter at
Burnett, her son killed in mine few years
ago; Henry soini. aged 2s, unmarried; Mike
Kichinko; John Mellon; William T. Wilson,
single man, people reside In Ontario; David
J. Thomas, mined in British Columbia and
has a son working there now; William
Thomas; Ben zedler. jr.. 10 years old; Vic
tor Ruhinika, 10 years old; Howell Mere
dith sr.. aged "a, leaves widow and nine
children. is a shareholder in: the Renton
Cooperative Coal Company, and worked
there several months this year; Watkin
Jones; Andrew Gacey aged 2s unmarried.
leaves a mother; Evan M. Lewis; Joseph
Lee; Richard Dare, from Pennsyivania:
has been in Carbonate one year: Daniel
Davis; August Hainut, IS yeate 0id, usix
married, leaves aged father and mother;
Matt Rutland; John T. Deconink, from Brit
ish Columbia; T. j. Edward. head Of local
lodge knights OF Pythias; Joseph Thomas,
Stephen Kromogo, aged AZ, leaves widow
and son; william H. Davis; Reese Jones,
fire inspector; Mart Rihila; Faui Curtix:
Adam, Poyalli: John Folta; Ben Zedlor, ST.,
whose son was killed; Emil Hainut; Evan
Richards. returned here week ago from
Renton, where he had been working q
month or so; Jacob LAnde.
Numbers Were Wounded.
The following is list Of injured men:
Andrew Kichinko. burned slightly; Mike J.
Kichinko, burned, in hospital; Abe Kalun-
ka, burned, in hospital; David J. Lcwis,
very sick as result Of firedamp; James Con-
way, burned in hospital; Candido Paroline,
ribs fractured, as result of cavtng; Mike
Knish, badly burned about face and body,
bruised and nearly suffocated by firedamp;
Peter Merx, aged go, burned and nearly
suffocated.
Heroic Work of Rescue.
The labor of the rescurers Is none the
less heroic because they can avail nothing
to the unfortunates whose lives went out
IN the shock OF the explosion. Without the
animus OF hope that any Of the missing
may yet be found alive in that death hole.
they are pressing forward In the midst OF
imminent dangers. The dreaded blaekdamp
which has succeeded the more virile fire.
damp, turks like grim shadowy presence
in the black pillared tunnels and brave in
deed are those who are daring its insid-
ious onslaught for the purpose Of recover
ing human forms that will breathe no more.
Charred and Blackened Bodies.
The swift revolutions of the huge fan
at the opening of the mine are forcing
currents of fresh air in to fight the
odors but the subterranean atmosphere
is still heavy with death. The bodies
are found lying in all positions. some
broken by dying rocks out of semblance
to man, some charred and blackened by
the sudden flash of nre, others as natural
as in life, lying limp where they had been
dropped in their tracks by the hot smoth-
ering breath of the firedamp
Checking on the Dead.
The searchers, stumbling about in the
dim lights of their safety lamps, come
across these forms huddled against huge
masses of stone or crushed beneath the
heavy timbers which supported the walls
of the tunnel shoots and crosscuts.
Then comes whispered consultation in
this weird shadow land. and a name Is
sadly checked or the list of the fated
thirty-two. Some considerable difficulty
is encountered In establishing idcntIflca-
ton, so fearful has been the change
wrought by the sudden, violent death.
People stunned by the Shock.
A stranger in Carbonate is impressed
by the stoicism manifested by the people
Groups of men stand idly about the
streets. with their hands in their pockets,
apparently not realizing deeply the ex-
tent of the calamity that has befallen the
community.
Groups about the top of the incline up
which the bodies are hauled and at the
entrance to the morgue view the shroud-
ed remains of those who had been their
comrades with seeming indifference But
this is all on the surface, a trait of the
manly Welsh character. He scorns to
betray emotion before his fellows. and
It is only the home walls that know the
depth Of the sorrow into which Car
bonado Is plunged.
Many Affecting scenes.
The wives and mothers and fathers and
sons make no parade Of their bereave-
ment. and their grief Is deep and quiet as
the still depths of death found In their
loved ones. Perhaps the most Affecting