The Saint Paul globe., 1902-07-12
MEN SAVED ALIVE, BUT
ARE RAVING MANIACS
One Hundred and Fift" Considered
Low Estimate Of the Number of
Dead-Eighty seven Bodies Taken
Out and Fourteen Living Men Res
eued-Slow Death the Fate of Many.

~ SAAOoC W1AO die CIAlO-i1U6us DOdLH
lurked everywhere around them, but
undauntedly they surged forward,
swayed with the mobiles of human pur-
poses.
The reward of their efforts was the
saving of the lives of fourteen Of their
fellow men.
Dead and manned bodies were 1ocat-
ed, 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 tram
cars, then brought up and exposed to
morbid gaze while being transferred to
wagons in which to be taken to the
morgue.
Eighty Bodies.
Eighty-seven dead bodies were re-
covered from the mine between day.
light and nightfall. Still partv of of
ficials and miners battled on, three
miles inside the mine.
There remain dangerous headings in
the Klondike section of the mine yet to
be explored No one knows how many
more dead will be found there
The impression prevails among the
outsiders and certain employees of the
mine that $50 is a low estimate of the
casualty list.
1t is difficult to picture with any de-
gree approaching it's full worth the
work of rescue and the atten ding 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 trans
formed 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
a aVxy1iY oil
rying them quarter of mile under
ground to where cars could be reached
to take them outside.
Found Men Alive.
Along in the early part of the after
noon cheering word came from the in
nermost recesses 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
unable to reach the night before. Falls
of roof almost choked up the heading,
but through and over ,ne debris the
brave men pushed their way. In the
front young Patrick Martin, his broth
er Peter, Philip White and several
cousins Of the Martins made their way.
Suddenly in an open space they were
startled by the maniac laugh which.
emanated from blackened form that
rushed at them out of the darkness.
The man grasped a 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 the chamber, and physi-
clans were quickly taken to the spot
One man in his parOXysmS had lock-
ed his jaws so that force had to be
employed to pry them open for the in
sertion of life-instilling fluids. One
man brought out died just as he reach
ed daylight.
Slow Death.
At that time three more headings,
believed to be filled with the dead, were
unsearched. Thirty-nine bodies were
lying within reach in the main head
ing. These were brought out at 4:35
p. m.
These remains were in a horrible
state, showing that there had been
slow death in each case. One of the
men had his mouth and nose tied about
by a towel. The rest of his face was
burned beyond recognition. The bodies
Of all were twisted in horrible shapes,
most of the arms being crooked so as
to shield the face. The only man who
could be identified at the pit mouth
was Fire Boss Joseph Tomlinson.
One Of the volunteer rescuers who
came out with this load Of dead stated
that fire was raging in parts of the
quell. Most of those who were brought
out alive this afternoon had saved
themselves by crawling into chamber
and turning valve on the compressed
air pipe line which runs along the en-
try. One man was found dead with
his hands clutched so tightly about a
monkey wrench that it could not be re-
moved.
At IL o'clock tonight te number of
known dead is 90; number of injured
in hospitals, Is; number of injured who
were able to go home, 4.
Coroner e. L. Miller has selected
his jury, which will make the investi-
cation.
John Yuminski a cripple boy, re-
ported among the dead is alive. When
the explosion came he was standing
beside car far in the mine. The force
of the explosion knocked him over, and
he fell unconsciously into the bed OF
the car. This saved his life. The gas
accumulated in the top Of the heading
and did not reach low enough to catch
him.
Gradually air worked its way into
him and slowly he revived. Hours aft
er the accident he was found sitting
upright on the side of the car, Won
dering what had happened. E2 was
gotten out as fast as possible and plac-
ed in the hands of doctors. The boy
has but one leg.
Eighty eight Accounted for.
JOHNSTOWN, Pa, July 12.-At 1
o'clock this morning 1t can be stated
that of the 600 men supposed to have
entered the mouth of the mine, 80 are
known to be dead and % rescued; 400,
SO the mine officials claim, escaped
when the explosion occurred, leaving SS
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 escaped. At least
35 additional bodies will be brought
to the temporary morgue at daylight,
making total list of dead 1875.
This, so President Powell Stack
house, Of the Cambria company, stat
ed, will be the extent of the dead.
Two members of the relief party
said this morning that fifty-two bodies
were loaded on cars, ready to be
brought out the first thing after day
light. This will swell the dead list
to 143.