Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-07-17
BELIEVED THAT ONE HUNDRED
AND FIFTY Is LOW ESTIMATE
OF CASUALTIES.
SEVERAL ARE FOUND ALIVE
TRANSFORMED INTO RAyING MA
MACS By HOURS OF WATT
ING.

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 ffty-two addition
al bodies will be brought to the tenn
porary morgue at daylight, making a
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.
an accurate list of the dead will not be
known. Some of the bodies. it is adj
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 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 to restore to life some
of those who are entombed. Death
lurked 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 We're To-
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
We're recovered from the mine between
daylight and night-fall Still party
, of officials and
Miners Bnttled 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-
L, o<,Y~a
dead will be found there. The mine Of
fcials refrain from guess work on the
subject.
The impression prevails among the
outsiders and certain employees of the
mine that $50 is low estimate of the
casualty list. Fated YOUNGSTOWN 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
armory and about the stricken homes
of the dead. Bulletin boards We're
eagerly scanned for news from the
scene of the disaster. It was difficult
to picture with any degree approaching
it's 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 it's most horrible form, encountered
their fellows transformed into raving
maniacs by hours of waiting in the
pitch darkness of the earth's interior,
lifted them moaning from their beds Of
fallen rock and then bending and
crawling on all fours, carrying them a
quarter of 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
nermost recasses 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 I'M
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
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
1
the maniac laugh which emerged from
blackened form that rushed at them
from out of the darkness. The man
grasped firmly pick handle and tried
in his frenzy
TO Beat Down His Rescucrs.
He was overpowered and dragged back
to the main heading to the cars. Thir-
teen other living men were found in
the chamber and physicians were
quickly taken to the spot.
At 3 p. m. the train of mine cars came
to the pit mouth where waiting ambu-
lances stood. Eight men We're lifted
over the siles of the cars and half
carried. wendell their way to the ambu-
lances. They We're all Poles. One big.
strapping fellow among them collapsed