The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-07-17
NAVY MINERS DIE
...sTOWN SCENE OF ANOTHER
~ rpIGHTFUL CALAMITY.
coal Mine Temporarily Buried
Eight Hundred Miners---Major-
=, Escaped, but Over One Hum
dred Perished.

| r.bnstoWn, July LINE impression
sa;Is among outsiders and certain
pF'iIres of the Cambria Steel Com
enp r hat $50 is low estimate of the
Pp.tb list of the Rolling Mill mine.
T T;,btv.seven bodies and IA living men
i h been brought from the mine. The
ut officials will make no estimate
pl a.bo dead. Heroic work was done by
u ,sscne party of 40 during the day.
II is difficult to picture with any de-
,.se approaching it's full worth the
sork of rescue. How brave men went
:D.o the laws of death in its most hor-
.;hle form. encountered their fellows
.-anstormed into raving maniacs by
bonrs of waiting in the pitch darkness
- the earth's interior, lifted them
Gaming from their beds of fallen rock
and then. bending and crawling on all
fonrs. carried them quarter of mile
under ground to where cars could be
cached to take them outside
Jamestown, Pa, July l1.-By an ex-
,1osion in the Cambria coal mine about
noon 800 men were entombed, and it is
cared the loss of life will be terrible.
All miners from the surrounding
mines have been called to the scene to
aid in the work of rescuing and the time
rolls of the company are being checked
10 learn if possible the exact number of
men that are now under ground.
At o'clock the first men escaped
from the mine through an old shaft.
They report that many are dead in the
mines. INSTANTLY killed by the first ex-
poson, and say that at least 200 are
either already dead or so situated that
they can not be rescued.
The mines are situated in lonely
Mace and some of the escaped men al.
most suffocated and informed the ready
rescuers that unless the work be carried
on quickly all in the mine would perish.
Some of the men are miles under
ground and it may take weeks before
their bodies are recovered.
The work of rescue is being carried
on as rapidly as possible.
During the afternoon it became
known that many men had escaped,
and that drift No. 8, known as the
klondike, was practically the only one
Effected. But here 200 men were at
work, and women watched and waited
for the end. From $50 o'clock in the
afternoon till in the evening the work
Of the searching parties was in vain,
but the first faint ray of hope came
when the bodies of a. man and boy were
brought out into the daylight, uncon-
scious, but alive.
Then at IL 20 p. m. four more men,
unconscious, were brought to the sur
face, but doctor who came with the
men reported passing % dead bodies on
the way.
Outside of the Klondike, the mines
are safe and unin uted. Within the
fatal limits of the mine the havoc
wrought is such that beggars descrip-
ton. Solid walls of masonry three feet
through were torn down as though bar
riers OF paper. The roofs of the mine
mains standing. In the face of these
difficulties, even the most heroic efforts
towards rescue may well seem hopeless.
AT 1915 O'Clock in the morning,
General Manager Moore, who with
Superintendent Robinson, had penetrat-
ed to considerable distance in the
Alondike, reached telephone station,
and notified the men at the main en-
trance that he had recovered SO bodies
up to that time, and had only been in
the right rooms.
As near as can be learned less than
Il Americans were killed. The rest
were Hungarians and Slavs.