Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-07-18
|alN RECOVERED
sTowN DISASTER.
81 Mig Mine Explosion--Work
kescpe Rapidly Done-Many
II &hf.in Mine Brought Out Raw
~ Observation-Disclosures Funerals
rik Days--Distressing Scenes.

Johnstown, Pa, July 14.-The extent
OF the horrible catastrophe of the
rolling mill mine of the Cambria Steel
n company is now capable OF being
81 grasped. In spite of conflicting reports
as to the number of dead, careful
and complete compilation by the Asso-
Il ciated Press shows that liz is the ex-
4 act number of bodies taken from the
j mine. Almost all the employees who
81 could have been in the mine at the
time of the life wrecking explosion of
n last Thursday are accounted for. Very
q few inquiries for missing have been
made to the authorities or the mine
A officials, and this, better than anything
else, demonstrates the impossibility
of many bodies still remaining in
the death trap.
n Sunday dawned upon the populous
city of YOUNGSTOWN prepared to devote
its attention to mourning and obse-
quies. The inaugural of this grim pro-
gram was given today, when more than
a score of interments took place.
Inspector Evans said later as to flu
ture Investigations:
Those of the company officials who
i were in the mine at the time of the
explosion and have survived will be
called upon to testify. Until these
men are able to be present at the
inquiry it will be useless to try to do
anything"
Asked as to whose duty it was to
take care of the gas in the mine, Mr.
Evans replied, "fhe fire boss, of
course"
After the consultation at the Office,
Evans went into the mine with Rob-
inson and Moore. They did not
emerge until late in the afternoon
The work they did while in the mine
was to direct their attention to the
damage wrought and more critically
examine into the possible hiding
a places for more bodies.
Frying about in the fourth right
heading in the Klondike, State In
spector Evans came across rooms 10
and 20, distributed between which were
. the bodies which were brought at 2:30
D. m. Evans was alone at the time.
n The bodies he found were in bad
state of decay. The search went on
after the three were brought out and
still continues.
a All day thousands of men, women
and children, drawn thither out of NOR
bid curiosity, fingered about the low
frame structure. Their appetite APP
parently could not be satisfied by the
ALREADY vast horror. Hundreds stood
in baking sun nearly opposite on the
other side of the Conemaugh river,
n where the cars came down from the
mine entry. Most of these were in
terested in friends who were possible
v victims. Down below, a quarter of a
mile, the streets of Conemaugh City
were clogged with funeral corteges.
n At 8 o'clock in the morning the
charred remains of Is victims were
brought to tn Westmont pit mouth and
taken to the morgue. The bodies were
found in the upper end of No. 6
rigth heading, where the explosion
occurred.
The bodies were all lying far in from
the point of the explosion and could
not be reached until the heading had
been entirely cleared of the noxious
gases.
Far back in the heading the search
ers came across the bodies of Is men
This discovery was made shortly after
midnight Mine Superintendent Geo.
T. Robinson today said they would
have the mine ready for work by Mon
day.
He said there has not been the
slightest danger from explosion since
the original and only one, on Thursday
. The mine, he admitted, especially the
section known as the Klondike, always
contained gas. It did not exist in dan
genous quantities, he said, and to
cause an explosion some one must
have violated the dulles as to lights
Every precaution was taken to guard
against accidents.
Superintendent Robinson commends
the Johnstown doctors for saving the
lives of dozen or more. when we
made our first dash into the NINE" he
said, 1--WE were taking our lives into
our hands, as none knew what was
beyond our course. The doctors came
on and followed us without the slight
est tremor. State Mine Inspector j..
T. Evans reached the pit mouth at
s o'clock this morning, There he was
Joined by Chief Inspector Roderick,
who came here last night"
Mr.. Roderick held private confer
ence with Superintendent Robinson
and Mine Engineer Marshall G. Moore
which lasted some time. Moore had
been in the mine up to o'clock this
morning. He informed Roderick.
among other things, that the air was
making a clean sweep of the mines and
that no bad gases remained there.