The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-07-17
HEROIC WORK
OF RESCUE
DARING FELLOWS GO INTO NINE
TO BRING OUT DEAD AND
MANNED BODIES.
FIND tIGHTY-StVfN DEAD BODIES
BELIEVED THAT ONE HUNDRED
AND FIFTY Is Low ESTIMATE
OF CASUALTIES.
FIND tIGHTY-StytN DEAD BODIES
SEVERAL ARE FOUND ALIVE
TRANSFORMER INTO RAvING MA
MACS by HOURS OF WATT
ING.

Johnstown, Pa, July 13-At o'clock
this morning IL is stated that OF the
800 men supposed to have entered the
mouth of the Rolling Mill mine OF the
Cambria Steel company Thursday
morning. ninety are known to be dead
and twenty-five rescued. Four hundred.
so the mine officials claim, escaped
when the explosion occurred, leaving
eighty eight stil to be accounted for.
Some OF these, according to those In
charge Of the rescue work. are dead,
but the majority, they claim, have es-
capped. From physicians, heads of res
cue parties and others familiar with the
different headings in the mine. II is
learned that at least fifty-two addition
al bodies will be brought to the tenn
porary morgue at daylight, making
total list OF dead 143. This. so President
Powell Stackhouse. of the Cambria
Steel company, stated, will be the ex-
tent Of the dead. but until all checks,
by which the miners are known, are
presented at the office of the company,
TN accurate list of the dead will not be
known. Some of the bodies II is ad-
United by the officials. are entombed in
closed headings or buried beneath slate.
may never be found.
Heroic Work of Rescuers.
Johnstown. Pa. July 13.-Yesterday
was a day of heroic rescues at the ILL
fated Rolling Mill mine of the Cambria
Steel company. Thrilling experiences
attended the efforts of the forty brave
and daring fellows who went down into
the bowels of the earth with a very
faint hope to spur them that still they
might be in time 10 restore to life some
of those who are entombed. Death
iurked everywhere around them, but,
undaunted, they surged forward,
swayed with the noblest OF human
purposes. The reward of their efforts
was the saving of the lives of fourteen
OF their fellow men and bringing them
again into the, sunlight and back to
loving families.
Dead and manned bodies were To-
Cated, but no effort was made to bring
them out of the vast theater of death
until every human energy was put for
ward toward seeing that no living soul
might escape their aid. That done,
the dead We're attended to and put In
train cars, brought up and exposed to
morbid gaze while being transferred
morgue. Eighty-seven dead bodies
were recovered from the mine between
daylight and night-fall. Still a party
Of officials and
Miners BattIed On,
three miles inside the mine. Occasion
ally 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 re-
mains dangerous headings in the Klon-
dixie section of the mine yet to be ex-
plored. No one knows how many more
dead will be found there. The mine Of
ficials refrain from. guess work on the
subject.
The impression prevails among the
outsiders and certain employees OF the
mine that $50 is a low estimate of the
casualty list. Fated Johnstown spent
the day horror-stricken. From dawn
to dusk flying ambulances coursed the
streets bearing gruesome burdens from
mine to morgue, from morgue to homes.
Great throngs surged about the pit
mouth, the improvised morgue at the
'Rrmory and about the stricken homes
Of the dead. Bulletin boards were
eagerly scanned for news from the
to picture with any degree approaching
Its full worth the work of rescue and
the attending scenes and incidents Of
the day at the center Of interest. How
brave men went
Into the Jaws of Death
In its most horrible form. encountered
their fellows transformed into raving
maniacs by hours of waiting In the
lifted them moaning from their beds OF
fallen rock and then bending and
crawling on all tours, carrying them a
quarter Of a mile underground 10 where
cars could be reached to take them
outside.
Along in the early part OF the after
noon cheering word came from the In
nermost recesses OF the mine that life
yet fingered in some OF the bodies
found. The rescuers made first for No.
4, left heading, which they had been un.
able TO reach the night before. Desc
late even for the scene OF a mine in
terror was the heading that stretched
out before them. Falls of roof almost
choked up the heading. but through
and over the debris the brave men
pushed their way. In the 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 emerged from
blackened form that rushed at them
from out OF the darkness. The man
grasped firmly a pick handle and tried
In his frenzy
To Beat Down His Rescuers.
He was overpowered and dragged back
to the main heading 20 the cars. Thir-
teen other living men were found In
the chamber ard physicians were
quickly taken 90 the spot
At 3p. IN. the train of mine cars came
10 the pit mouth where waiting ambu-
lances stood. Eight men were lifted
over the sides of the cars and half
carried, wendell their way TO the ambu-
iances. They were all Poles. One big,
strapping fellow among them collapsed