The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-07-18
FIND EIGHIY-sfyIN DEAD BoDHs
RELIEVED THAT ONE HUNDRED
AND FIFTY is Low ESTIMATE y
Ii OF CASUALTIES. ~
SEVERAL ARE FOUND Allxl
INTO RAvING MA.
MACS BY HOURS OF WATT ~
VI ING.

youngstown, Pa, July 12-At / o'clock
this morning it is stated that of the
GOO 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
lightweight still 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, it is
learned that at least fifty-two addition
al bodies will be brought to the tenn
porary morgue at daylight, making a
total list of dead 143. This. so President,
s 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,
On accurate list of the dead will not be
known. Some of the bodies, 1t Is ad-
United by the officials. are entombed in
closed headings or buried beneath slate.
Some may be recovered, while others
may never be found.
Heroic Work of Rescuers
Johnstown, Pa, July 12.-Yestefday
was 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 very
faint hope to spur them that still they
might be in time to restore to life some
Of those who are entombed. Death
lurEed 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 10
Gated 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 were attended to and put in
train cars, brought up and exposed to
morbid gaze while being transferred
| to wagons in which to be taken to the
morgue. Eighty-seven dead bodies
were recovered from the mine between
| daylight and night-fall. Still party
of officials and
Miners Rattled 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-
riored. No one knows how many more
| dead will be found there. The mine Of
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
f: streets bearing gruesone burdens from
mine to nlorgue, from norgue to homes.
! Great throngs surged about the pit
! mouth, the improvsed morgue at the
armory and about the stricken homes
! of the dead. Bulletin boards were
eagerly scanned for news from the
scene of the disaster. 1t was difficult
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 mon went
Into the Jaws of Death
in its most horrible FORM encountered
their fellows transformed into raving
maniacs by hours of waiting in the
| pitch darkness of the earth's interior,
! tod mi, 80
| fallen rock and then bending and
crawling on all tours. carrying them a
quarter of q mile underground to where
/ cars could be reached to take them
outside.
Along in the early part of the after
noon cheering word came from the in
nernost recssses 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 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
rushed 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
i, a blackened form that rushed at them
from out Of the darkness. The man
grnspad firmly a pick handle and tried
In his frenzy
TO Beat Down His Rescuers.
He was overpowered and dragged back
I to the main head ding othe cars. Thir-
!. teen other living men were found in
Il the chamber and physicians Ii were
quickly taken to the spot. ts {. Us
4. AT Bpm. the train of4mine cars came
te the pit mouth where waiting ambu-
latices stood. Eight men were lifted
over the d es Of the cars ana half
4 searried. ,1ehded their way to the ambt-
Z IaItces. They were :all Poles. One big,
traprins FELLOW among them collapsed