The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-07-14
WILL RESUME WORK
Cambria Mine Owners Were Given
Formal Permission.
ONE WORKING IS CLOSED.
Operations in KIOndike May Not Be-
gin for Several Days.
TWO MORE DEATHS OCCURRED.
Total Fatalities Now Amount 10 One
Hundred and Fourteen.
THE DAY WAS DEVOTED TO FUNERALS
Services Were Held in All the Churches
and Many Bodies Were Laid to Rest.
Affecting Sc ines.

Johnstown, Pa, July 13-After consul
tation this evening with the four State
mine inspectors summoned here to make a
thorough Inspection Of the rolling mill mine
of the Cambria Steel company, James d..
Roderick, chief Of the State bureau Of
mining inspection, dictated a notice TO Gen.
cral Manager c. S. Price of the Cambria
company granting formal permission to
resume operations in all sections of the
mine except the Klondikc in the morning.
The Kondike workings win be closed
for several days until perfect security is
assured through the practiclng OF openings
and repairs necessitated by the explosion
Two more deaths Of rescued victims
have occurred since last night Early this
morning John Sehr and Yasante Slbolia
died at the Cambria general hospital
These men were among the six living
last brought out Of the mine Friday after
noon. of whom four others have died.
These deaths raise the total fatalities to
114. although the company records have 1t
one less. Much confusion has attended the
compilation of the record,
Mine Superintendent G. T. Robinson this
evening said: 81 would not Ike to assert
that there are no more bodies IN the mine,
but l don't think there are. There may be
few"
PLENTY OF AIR NOW.
II Is generally regarded AS certain that
the full extent Of the disaster is now
known. state inspectors say tonight that
the workings are now free Of gas and the
almost perfect yentilatlng apparatus Is
rushing currents Of pure air into the utter.
ings. There has not been single place
outside Of the old abandoned chambers that
have not undergone the scrutiny Of cx-
perts who say everything Is in as good
condition as could be asked or demanded
At $50 A. M. State Mine Inspector Josiah
T. Evans of Johnstown, Joseph Williams
OF Altoona, c. B. Rooss Of Greensburg
and J. G. Roday Of Uniontown. left Chief
Roderick and the mine officers at the niue
Office and entered the mine. They went
all through the KioDdike. making air tests
and noting the conditions controlling yenti-
latlon. They found many openings which
retarded the proper course Of air currents
and noted them. The inspection lasted for
hours After finishing the Klondike sec
ton, the experts went through all the other
sections which have EeSer manifested dan
gerous symptoms
There they found matters in ordinary
shape. ana at 4:30 p m the men left the
mine TO report ut the hotel to Chief Rod
erlck. Their talk went over what the men
knew of the mine before and since the
explosion, the effects Of the explosion and
all pertaining TO the prospects Of future
immunity from a similar catastrophe. The
men paid particular note 10 the ferreting
out, II possible, OF the cause of the ex-
plosion and whether the blame rests on
any one now living. upon whom heavy
punishment could aight
INSPECTORS NOT TALKING.
OF course the inspectors would say moth
Ing as to their discoveries. They will re-
main mute to the public on the subject