The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-12
.oHNsTOwN. Pa. July 12.-At

o'clock this morning it can be
stated that Of the 500 men sup
',ss5 10 have entered the mouth of
II boiling Mill mine OF the Cambria
SsI company Thursday morning
-,stv are known to be dead and
.~snfv-t,vo rescued. -Four hundred. so
.ts mine officials claim, escaped when
- explosion occurred, leaving eighty
..sst still TO be accounted for.
some Of them, according to those
:, charge Of the rescue work, are
dad but the majority, they claim,
have escaped. From physicians. heads
,f rescue Drties and others who are
t-niljar Win the different headings in
tss mine. il is learned that at least
,5irty-dve additional bodies will be
tuught to the temporary morgue at
5aylight. making the total dead 125.
This President Stackhouse Of the Cam
tria Steel company said would be the
sYisnt Of the dead. but until all the
checks by which the miners are known
arc presented at the office of the COM
fsnv. an accurate list of the dead will
-ot b. known. Some of the bodies, il
/. admitted by the officials. are en-
5rbed I'm closed headings or buried
bsneath slate. Some may be recov-
cred. but others may never be found.
The impression prevails among out
sIers and certain employees of the
Cambria Steel company that $50 is a
hv estimate of the death list of the
Rolling Mill mine. Eighty-seven bod
Is and fourteen living men were
brought from the mine today. The
nine officials will make no estimate of
The dead.
Heroic work was done by a rescue
rarty Of forty today. II is difficult to
Mcture with any degree approaching
rs full worth. the work OF the rescue
How brave men went into the jaws
Or death in its most horrible form. en-
rountered their fellows transformed
into raving maniacs by hours of wait
ing IN the pitch darkness Of the earths
Interior lifted them moaning from
their beds Of fallen rock. and then,
bending and crowding on all tours,
carrying them a quarter of a mile un-
foreground a. where cars could be
reached to take them outside.
Along in the early part of the aft
'rno0n. cheering word came from the
innermost recesscs Of the mine that
life yet fingered in some Of the bodies
found. The rescuers made first for
No. T. the left heading, which they
had been unable TO reach the night
before. Desolate. even for the scene
Of a mine interior, was the heading
that stretched out before them. Falls
az roof almost choked the heading but
through and over the debris the brave
men pushed their way. In the front,
young Patrick Martin, his brother
Peter, Philip White and several cous-
ms Of the Martins made their way.
Attacked by Maniac.
Suddenly. I'm an open space, they
We're startled by the maniacal laugh
which emanated from a black form
mat rushed at them out of the dark
ness. The man grasped firmly a pick
handle and tried in his frenzy to beat
Gown his rescuers. He was overpow-
Ced and dragged back to the main
heading and TO the cars. Thirteen
dher living men were found in this
Gambler. and physicians were quickly
aiken TO the spot
At 3 o. IN. the train of mine cars
ame 10 the pit mouth, where waiting
1nbulances stood. Eight men were
aied over the sides of the cars, and
sat carried. wendell their way to the
ambulance They were all Poles. One
og Swapping fellow among them col
ApSed as he reached the ambulances.
Ad doctors spent several minutes re-
slscitating him. AS the men were
odven hurriedly to the Cambria hos
l'a- the train of coal cars with the
physicians re-entered the mine. In
another half hour they came out
again, this time with six living, but
Almost dead miners.
une man i'm his paroXysms had
ncked his jaws so that force had to
~ employed 10 pTy them open for the
insulting life fluids These six were
.aAen I'm an unconscious condition to
me Cambria hospital. One man
brought out with this crowd died just
Is Ne reached daylight. At that time
elEee more headings. believed to be
Ned with the dead. were unsearched.
-nrty-nine bodies were lying within
zach OF the main heading. These
we're brought out at 4:S0 p. m.
Their bodies were piled high in the
ai cars and covered with canvas
-leSe remains were in a terrible state.
s'NinE that there had been slow
-5tih IN each case. One of the men
.a MS mouth and nose tied about
-"n towel. The rest of his face
'eS burned beyond recognition.
me bodies of all were twisted in
--.Ilo.e shapes. most of the arms be-
r - crooked so as to shield the face.
me only one who could be identified
g. 'He pit mouth was Fire Boss JO-
Svph Tomlinson.
Fire Raging in Mine.
en-. ". "t the volunteer rescuerS who
80 -". with his load of dead stated
n. L'r IRE was raging in parts Of
-'''''. Most of those who were
So" out alive this afternoon had
80. themselves by crawling into a
ra--- aud turning the valve on the
sr--, '~Sea line which runs along the
10y. one man was found dead with
'a"ds eiutched so tightly about