The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-07-12

Fourteen len Raving Mahiaes Taken
from the Mine.
ALL OTHERS DEAD.
Rescuers Have Thrilling Experiences In
Efforts to Reach the LlVing-It
10 Known That Ninety az
Least Are Dead.

Johnstown, Pa, July 12.-Thrilling
experiences attended the efforts OF
forty brave and isring fellows Friday
who went down into the earth with
very faint hope to spur them, that stiil
they might be In time TO restore to
| life some of those who are entombed.
Death hurled everywhere around them.
but undaunted they snrged forward,
swayed with the noblest OF human
purposes. The reward of their efforts
was the saving Of the lives Of Ia Of
their fellow men and bringing them
back again into the sunlight and back
10 loving families Dead and manned
bodies were located. but no effort was
| made to bring them out OF the vast
theatre OF death until every human
energy was put forward towards sec
Ing that no living soul might escape
their aid That done. the dead were
attended 20 and put in tram cars and
brought up and exposed TO morbid gaze
while being transferred 20 wagons In
which they we're to be taken 10 the
morgue. Eighty-ssven dead bodies
were recovered from the mine between
daylight and nightfaI. san 2 party
of officials and miners battIed on.
three miles Inside the mine. Occasion
ally word would come TO the surface
By some mysterious means ttat an-
other heap Of remains had been expos
ed TO the yiston Of the searchers, There
still remain several dangerous head
lngs In the KIondike section OF the
mine II be explored No one knows
how many dead viii be sound there
The officials refrain from guess work
on the subject The impression pre-
walls amoag the outsiders and certain
employees Of the mine that $50 is q low
estimate OF casualty list
II Is difficult "a picture with ny de-
gree approaching its fuH wosh thp
work II rescue aad tbe attending
scenes and Incidents ~ the Gt NJ
the centre 81 Interest How brave mea
wvat iat3 the jaws 81 death IN It's
moss horrible form encountered their
fellows transformed .ato ravsnx mauj-
2cE hy hours or waiting .n the pitca
eArEueea ~ thu ear1hs interior. llst-
- them moaning from their beds Of
fallen rock ana tbaa Bending and
crawling on 81 tours carrying .hem
quarter % mile underground to
where cars couli be reached % take
them outside.
The reseuers made first for No. 4.
which they bad been unable 10 reach /
before. Desolate even for the scene
Of a mine interior was the heading
that stretched ont before them. Falls
Of roof aimoxt eh0ked up the heading
bat through AID over the debris the
brave men pushed their way In the
front young Patrick Martin. his broth
eT Peter. Paila Waite and several |
cousins of the Martins made their way
Suddenly va an opea space they we're
startled by a maniacial laush which
snanatet from a blaekened form that
rIlsasa AZ iaem cut Of the darkness.
Tae man gfaaped 4 pick handle ani
tried IN bis frenxy 10 beat down his
reSeaefs lie waa oysgpowerea aud
Dragged bark 10 the main heading "a
the ears Thlrteea other living men
wvre found az this cham Der and physi-
ciana were quickly taken 10 enc spot.
AT p n The train Of mine cars
cane 10 lbe pits mouth. where wait
Ing au1balanees stood. Eight men were
lifted over tie sides of the cars and
hall carried. wended their way 10 tbs
ambuianess. They were all Poles.
One big, strapping fellow among them
collapsed as he reached the ambulance
and DEBTORS spent several minute re-
suscisatimg him.
As The men were driven hurriedly
To the Cambria hospital. the train OF
cara sRsath lhe physicians re-entered the
mine. In another half hour they came
out again with six living. but aimos,
dead miners. One man in his parcx-
ysns had locked his jaws 30 that force
had 10 be employed to pry them open
for the insertion OF tfe-instilling
fluids. These six were taken In an un-
conscious condition to the Cambria
hospital. One man brought out with
this crowd died Just as he reached |
daylight
Three more headings. believed to be
filled with dead. were unsearched |
Thirty-nine bodies we're lying within |
AS&AI Eh tnS main meaning THESE |
wree brought out at ass D. m. The |
bodies were piled high in the coal |
cars and covered with canvas These
remains wer In terrible state. show |
ing that there had been slow death |
I'm each case One OF the men had HIS |
mouth and nose tied by q 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 80 as 70 shield |
the face. The only one who could be
identifed at the pit mouth was Fire |
Boss Joe Tomlinson
One Of the volunteer rescuers who
came cut with his load OF dead, states
that are was raging in parts OF the |
mine that would take some time to
quell.
Most OF those who were brought out
alive had saved themselves by crawl |
ting into chamber and turning a valve |
81 the compressed air pipe line which |
all