The Lamar register., 1902-07-16
RESCUE TWENTY-FIVE
NINETY KNOWN TO BE DEAD.
Death List of Johnstown Explosion
viii Reach at Least One Hundred
and Twenty-five-One Man Comes
Forth Maniac.

Forth Maniac.
Johnstown, Pa, July 12.-At o'clock
this morning it can be stated that of
the 600 men supposed to have entered
the mouth of the Illondike mine of the
Cambria Steel Company, Thursday
morning, ninety are known to be dead
and twenty-five rescued. Four hun
dred, so the mine officials claim, es-
capped when the explosion occurred.
leaving eighty-eight still to be ac.
counted 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
rescue parties and others who are fa-
mliar with the different headings i'll
the mine, 1t is learned that Mt least
thirty-five additional bodies will be
brought to the temporary morgue ut
daylight making the total dead 125.
This President Powell Stackhouse of
the Cambria Steel Company stated
would be the extent for the dead, but
until all the checks by which the fnin-
ers are known are presented at the Of
flee of the company. an accurate list OF
the dead will not be known. Some of
the bodies, 1t is admitted by the ofii-
cials, are entombed in closed headings
AOr buried beneath slate. Some may be
recovered, but others may never be
found.
The scene ar the armory last night
was one of extreme confusion. At 8
O'Clock thirty-nine additional bodies
had been recovered from the mine. By
Z o'clock twenty or more of them
had been identified. Outside the arm
ory was crowd of fully 10000.
They We're jammed close to the walls
of the building and the ragged edges
of the crowd extended several hundred
feet away. Those who We're nearest
the windows were making efforts to
look into the morgue and the police
had hard time to keep the crowd in
check.
Orders were issued late last night
that no more bodies are to be taken
from the mine before daylight. Ru-
mors are out that seventeen dead are
loaded in cars ready to be brought
out, but the morgue attendants are
tired out with Overwork and were
given n chance to rest.
One of the unknown survivors Mt the
Cambria hospital died late last night
and two others are expected to die be-
fore morning.
Along in the early part of the after
noon cheering word came from the In
nermOst recesses of the mine that iife
yet fingered in some of the bodies
found. The rescuers made first for No.
4, the left heading. which they had
been unable to reach the night before.
Desolate even for the scene of mine
interior was the heading that stretched
out before them. Falls of roof almost
cl,oked the heading but through and
over the debris the brave men pushed
their way. In the frcnt, young Patrick
Martin, his brother Peter, Philip White
1and several cousins of the Martins,
made their way.
suddenly In an open space they were
startled by the maniac laugh which
emanated from black 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 heading to
the cars. Thirteen other living men
were found in this chamber and ply
sicians were quickly taken to the spot.