Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-07-12

myself VIII OrgHnIze another senrcf'
ing party. There is damp in the left
headings which will make our prog
ress toilsomc. Part Of the mine is 50
filled with alt"rdnInp we cannot get
IN until We turn til" current Of air in
Krmn,ina Dcmd Bodies.
The work cf Icsu". which was begun
AS soon after the oNplosion NJ possible,
still continues undated and may take
several days h"lor" all tn" victims are
removed. Already nearly 100 dead
bodies, many of them frightfully
crushed and mHn-lrd. have been taken
from the death vault.
\ temporary morgue has been i'm
Urovisnd in the IohnStown armory Of
Company II, Fifth regiment. \, &. f.,
where all the bodies are brought rs
soot as they are taken from the mine,
When the bodies of the victims came
from the mine. long line Of under
takers wagons and picnic wagons
We're in waiting to take them on the
roundabout route to the morGue in the
city. There they We're backed up to a
Goor. and large force of police WAS
ready to check the great throng from
pressing in too close Body after body
was dragged from the wagons and
borne inside An of them were black
oned and unrocO@niZnhlc until the un-
dcrtaknrs cot to work. The head of
one man was crushed. and the only
means of identifying will he 10y his
check number, All Of the bodies were
cold and stiff. The arms of most of
them were twisted in front of them rs
if 10 shield their faces from fire. The
l"Ft = dd of one man WAS torn off ut
the Ni,et The bodies now recovered
were All found two miles in from the
mau at mouth
%t"rie~ Told by survivors.
The few Survivors Wlo have escaped
,r"l IA" depths of the mine describe
jh,- conditions as lri@httul. Out,'lo
II tnt klondiko the miners were >lf"
ana uninjured Within tho fatal Inn
IT. tn" havoc wrought il almost iuG,,-
crhahio, Solid wallis of mas onr,
tAlc, feet through We're tom down as
If they wer" barriers of paper, Th"
roofs Of the mine We're demolished
and not door remains standing. In
the face Of these difficulties even tll+l
most heroic efforts toward rescue
scented almost hopeless
Miners who left the mine by way If
q. \Ji1} l,rA,n1,t
be stories of crawling over the bodies
o. their comrades.
Two young men who We're at work
in IL" Klondikc when the explosion uc-
cured escaped by way of the airshaft
lading up through the Kcrnvlle hill
from the mine. 4 fanhouSe, now out
If use. stands ut the top of this air-
shaft. The young men told how they
had walked across dead bodies to pure
;ir and light. How many they did not
know.
Only Few Could Escape.
lin Whitney, who was beyond the
0il where the explosion took place,
>hU:
'i WAS at the hending one half mile
tl' N the explosion. Several dozen
were overcome 10y the damp or cas-.
- Il had all could do to escape. 1t
rlS TERRIBLE After the explosion We
vest back to rescue the less fOrtunat"
..,d neatly lost our OWL lives. We got
.G' man and saved his life. did not
soc my father. WAC WAS STRUGGLING t.
-pt ont. | don't think many outside OF
ne drivers escaped"
John Hewlett Of BIB Market street
It the tiue of the accident was at
second right. room III. two miles back
n the mntS.
"'rhe explosion" he said was at
i4ht sin about 400 yards from where
We We're working. There were six of
Ills together. and rs soon as we heard
the explosion we pulled up stakes and
rot out as uuck AS possible. Richard
Bennett was one of the men with me
After Bennett cot out he Went back
l4ain. After the explosion we could
not see our hands before us until We
reached the main heading. 1t appeared
to be a smoky substance. whether gas
or damp | could not tell. 1t was ter
rible. whatever it was.
Distressing scenes at Morgue.
Distressing SCENES are constant about
the temporary mur@lt and ON the side
of the river at the foot OF the descent
from the pit mouth where women n'L
children are awaiting the solution OF
the awful mystery of the life or death
Of their relatives. yet unheard from.
both points. No comfort is extended
them by mine officials, as it is now
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