Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-07-13
lOHNSTOWN CITY OF
GLOOM AND DESPAIR
From Mine 1O5 Bodies Have
Been Taken.
uNDERTAKERs ARE VERY BUSY.
1t Is Not Thought That Record OF
Deaths Above Mentioned VIII Be
swelled to Any Great Extent, and in
No Case viii List Exceed 115.

Deaths Above Mentioned WIN Se
sweIled to Any Great Extent, and in
No Case viii List Exceed 115.
Johnstown, Pa, July 12.-One hun
dred and five are now dead from
Thursdays explosion at the rolling mill
mine of the Cambria Steel company. II
is not probable that this record viii
be swelled to any great extent, and in
no case is it expected the list will eX-
seed 10 or ll5,
4~ The mine workings, which it was
dangerous to enter yesterday, We're
thoroughly explored by a searching
party during the night. At 8 o'clock
this morning the charred and mutilat-
ed bodies of Is victims were brought
to the west end of the pit mouth ami
taken to the morgue. The bodies were
found in the upper end of No. 6, right
heading, where the explosion oc-
Cured The bodies were all lying far
in from the point of the explosion, AMI
1t is not believed the heading will he
entirely cleared of the obnoxious gasos.
Three deaths occurred during the
night at Cambria hospital. These
were among the last living miners that
were brought from the mine yesterday
in an unconscious condition. Another
of these is in precarious condition.
1t was learned at the pit mouth to
day from the mine officials that every
heading and chamber, both to the right
and left of the main Klondike head
ing was penetrated during the night
and that not a trace of any dead or
living victims was found 1t is ad
mitted that some might have crawled
into obscure workings in their flight
from the after-damp, which followed
the explosion, and these succumbed to
the fatal influence of the gas.
Many funerals will take place today
Every undertaken in Johnstown has
as many on his hands as he can well
attend to.
Inquiries were made at the mine of
fees and the morgue by relatives of
four missing, They are foreigners.
Mine Superintendent George r. Robin
son says it is plain the men have been
lost in some pocket of the mine, where
they went 10 escape the fire damp and
when escape was cut off, were caught
by it.
Mine Superintendent George T. Rob.
inson said today that the mine would
be ready for work by Monday. He
said there has not been the slightest
danger from explosion since the origin
al and only one Of Thursday. The
mine, he admitted, especially the sec
tion known as Klondike, always con
tanned gas. 1t did not exist in dan
gerous quantities here he said and to
cause an explosion some one must have
violated the rules as to lights.
Superintendent Robinson strongly
recommends the Johnstown rescuers
for their bravery in saving the lives
of fifteen or more men. when we
made our first dash into the mine,
he said, I'VE We're taking our lives in
our hands as none knew what was
beyond in our course. The doctors
came in and followed our lead without
the slightest tremor"
State Mine Inspector ]. T. Vans
reached the pit mouth at o'clock this
morning There he was Joined by
Chief Inspector James e. Roderick,
who came here last night. At o'clock
this morning there were 16 bodies left
at the morgue.
Dr. j. Frank Taylor, one of the res.
cuing party, who has made many trips
into the mine is confident that there
are many more bodies in the mine an1
that the list of dead will be greatly
increased. A number Of rooms have
been entered, and in these DIR. Tay
lor expects many bodies to be found
Total dead bodies is 1O8 OF those
taken to the Memorial hospital three
have died This brings the dead so
far known up to Ill. In the Memorial
hospital there are still LAG patients,
making a total Of 1876 living and dead
who have been brought out of the
mine.
Mayor Pendry at noon made the posi-.
tive statement to the Associated Press
that there was 105 dead and ia in
jured Many of the latter may die as
the extreme danger of pneumonia SCI.
ting in.