The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1902-07-18
REMOVE THE DEAD
RLAcKENED BODIES TAKEN FROM
THE MINE DISASTER.
WORK OF RESCUE GOES ON
Total Dead Thus Far Reported 142-
Thrilling Experiences Attending Ef-
forts to Secure Dead Bodies and
Help Those Who May Be Living.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa, July 12.-At 1
o'clock this morning it can be stated
of the 600 men supposed to have en-
tered the 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 oc-
cured, leaving eighty-eight to be ac-
counted for. Some of these, accord
ing to those in charge of the rescue
work, are dead, but the majority,
they claim. have escaped. From
physicians, heads of the rescue parties
and others who are familiar with the
different headings in the mine, it is
learned that at least fifty-two addi-
tional bodies will be brought to the
temporary morgue at daylight, max
ing the total dead 142. This, so
President Stackhouse says, will be the
extent of the disaster, but until all
checks of the miners are taken an ac-
curate list will be impossible. Some
of the bodies, it is admitted, will be
entombed in the closed headings or
buried under slate. Some may never
be found.
Yesterday was day of heroic res
cues at the 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, stirred by very faint hope that
still they might be in time to restore
to life some of those who are en-
tombed
Death lurked everywhere around
them, but undaunted they pressed for
ward, swayed with the noblest of hui
man 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 living families. Dead
and MANNED bodies were located, but
not effort was made to bring them out
of the vast theater of death until ev-
cry human energy was put forward to
seeing that no living soul might es-
cape their aid. That done, the dead
were put in train cars, brought up
and exposed to morbid gaze, while be-
ing transferred to wagons in which to
be taken to the mOrgue.
Eighty-seyen dead were removed
from the mine between daylight and
nightfall. Still party of officials and
miners battled on, three miles inside
the mine. Occasionally word would
come to the surface by some mysteri-
Gus means that another heap of re-
mains had been exposed to the vision
of the searchers. There remain dan
gerous headings. There remain dan
tion of the mine yet to be explored.
No one knows many more dead will
be found there. The mine officials re-
frain from guesswork on the subject.
The impression prevails among the
outsiders and certain employees OF the
mine that $50 is a low estimate of the |
mine list. Fated Johnstown spent the |
day horror-stricken. Great throngs |
surged about the pit mouth, the i'm
provished morgue at the armory and |
about the stricken homes of the dead |
Exaggerated rumors of all kinds pre-
vailed. One report gained currency |
that disaster had overtaken the rescu-
shortly after 9 o'clock. This was not |
disproved until word finally came |
from the men in the mine.