The Iola register., 1902-07-18
SOME WERE ALIVE
Fourteen Entombed Miners Rescued at
Johnston.

Fourteen Entombed Miners Rescued at
Johnston.
BY soripps-McRae Press Assn.
Johnstown, July 12.-After 10 hours
OF continued exploration in the Klon-
dixie section of the Cambria mine, the
officials announce that the main head
1ngs have all been penetrated. The
known dead list reaches 124 and pos
sibly few bodies are left yet in out
OF the way places. Three men were
rescued yesterday and died this morn
ing. The miners generally are ready
to return to work.
FIFTY BURIED SATURDAY
BY scripps-McRae Press Association
Johnstown, July, l2.-This morning
fifty victims who were members of the
Creek Catholic church we're buried
twenty-five more funerals will
occur this afternoon. The
mining officials are trying to
minimize the number but the dead list
will exceed 200. Twenty seven rooms
in the heart of the explosion district
have not yet been entered.
SOME WERE ALIVE
Johnstown, Pa, July I1.-This has
been day of heroic rescues at the
fatal rolling mill mine of the Cambria
Steel Company. Thrilling experiences
attended the efforts of the forty dar-
ing fellows who went into the mine in
the very faint hope that still they
might be in time to restore to life some
OF those who are entombed.
Dead and mained bodies we're locat-
ed, but no effort was made, to bring
them out of the mine until every effort
had been put forward toward seeing
that no living soul might escape their
aid. That done, the deadlwere put in
train cars, brought up and exposed to
morbid gaze while being transferred
to wagons in which to be taken to the
morgue.
At IL O'Clock tonight the number of
known dead is ninety; number OF in
jured in hospitals, eighteen; number
Of injured who were able to 60 home,
four.
Ninety dead bodies we're recovered
from the mine between daylight and
nightfall Still party of officials
and miners battled on, three miles in
side the mine. Occasionally word
would come to the surface by some
mysterious means that another heap
of remains had been exposed to the
vision of the searchers. There remain
dangerous headings in the Klondike
section of the mine yet to be explored.
No one knows how many more dead
will be found there. The.mine officials
refrain from guesswork,. on the sub
ject. The impression prevails among
the outsiders and certain employees of
the mine thai $50 is low estimate of
the casualty list.
Early in the afternoon the;cbeering
word came from the mine that life yet
fingered in some of thelbodies found.
The rescuers made first for No. 4, the
left heading, which theylhadsbeen un-
able to reach the night before. Falls
OF roof almost choked the.heading, but
through and over the debris the re.
scuers pushed their way. q In front,
young Patrick Martin, his brother,
Peter, Philip White and several
cousins of the Martins made their way
Suddenly, in an open space, they were
startled by the maniac laugh which
emanated from a blackened form that
rushed at them out of the darkness.
The man grasped firmly pick handle
and tried in his frenzy to beat down
his rescuers. He was overpowered
and dragged back to the main head
ing, TO the cars. Thirteen other liv-
ing men were found in this chamber
and physicians we're quickly taken to
the spot.