Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-12
FUNERALS IN JORNSIONN
Every Undertaken Taxed to His
 Utmost Burying the Dead.


 Night in the Mine-The Dead Bodies
 Are Being Brought Out About One
 Hundred and Twenty-Five Thus
 Far Having Been Brought to the
 Surface.
 Johnstown, Pa, July 12.-One hum dred and five are now known TO De dead from Thursdays explosion at the Rolling Mill mine of the Cambria Steel company. It is not probable that this record will be sweiled to any great extent And in no case is It expected the list will exceed 11O or 115. The mine workings which it was dangerous to enter yesterday were thoroughly explored by a search ing party during the night.
 At o'clock this morning the char red and mutilated bodies of b victims were brought to the Westmont pit mouth and taken to the morgue. The bodies were found in the upper end of number six right heading where the explosion occurred. The bodies were all lying far in from the point of the explosion and could not be reached until the heading had been entirely cleared of the noxious gases. Three deaths occurred during the night at the Cambria hospital. These were among the last living victims who were brought out of the mine yester- day afternoon in an unconscious con- dition. Another of these is ill pre- carious condition. It was learned at the pit mouth to-day from mine of lficials that every heading and chamber both to the right and left Of the main Klondike heading were penetrated during the night and that not trace I of any dead or living victims were 1 found. It is admitted that some might have crawled into obscure workings in their flight from the afterdamp which followed the explosion and there isuccumbed to the fatal influence of gas.
 Many funerals will take place to- day. Every undertaken ill Johns town has as many on his hands as he can well attend to. Inquiries were made at the mine offices and the mor- que by relatives of four missing. They arc foreigners. Mine Superintendent George T. Robinson says 1t is prob able the men are lost in some pocket of the mine where they went to escape l firedamp and when escape was cut oil were caught by it.
 The party of rescuers who complet- ed the exploration of the mine went l in at ' o'clock last evening and came out at o'clock to-day. In the crowd were Dr George Hay, Dr Frank B | Stotler and Dr w. N. Prfngle. l Dr Hay said the headings both to the right and left of the main Klon- dike heading were practically free l from foul air when they went in. Moth ing impeded the progress of the search CTS. The long search was rewarded when they reached No 6 right head ing. Far back in the heading the searchers came across the blackenee and charred bodies of 15 men. This discovery was made after midnight.
 Mine Superintendent George T. Rob inson was at his office early to-day He said they would have the mine I'ready for work by Monday. He saie there has not been the slightest dan, ger from explosion since the origina and only one of Thursday. The mine he admitted, especially the sectior known as Klonidke, always contained gas. It did not exist in dangerous quantities, he said, and to cause an ex pIosion someone must have violated .l the rules as to lights. Every precau ton had been taken to guard agains accident. Superintendent Robinson commends the Johnstown doctors fol their bravery that saved the lives O a dozen or more men.
 'When we made our first dash int the mine,'' he said i've were taking our lives in our hands as none knew what was beyond in our course. The doctors came on and followed ou lead without the slightest tremor.'
 State Mine Inspector J. T. Evan: reached the pit mouth at s o'clock thi' morning. There he was joined b, Chief Inspector J. E. Roderick, wh, came here last night.
 MT Roderick said he had no inten ton of entering the mine now. Ht held a private conference With Super intendent Robinson and Mine Engineel Marshall G. Moore, which lasted som time.
 Moore had been in the mine up to o'clock this morning. He informed Roderick among other things that tn air was making a clean sweep of tn workings and that noXlouS gases Wef' fast diminishing beyond the dange point.
 At o'clock this morning there were Is bod left at the morgue.
 pr Frank Taylor, one of the rescu ing party who has made many trip into the mines is confident that ther' are many more bodies in the mine ant that the list of the dead will be great ly increased There were numbe of rooms that were not entered. Tn total number of dead bodies taken ou is now placed at 108. Three of the in jured died at the Memorial hospita making the total number of dead III
 Mayor Pendry at noon told an Asso ciated press representative that he wa confident there were only 105 deat and 15 injured. Some of the latte may die as pneumonia is feared.
 The report has just come from tn interior of the mine that three nor bodies have been recovered.
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