The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-01-27
DISASTER IS WORSE
THAN FIRST
REPORTED
It Is Believed the Number OF
Fatalities at CheswiCk Will
Be Near Two Hundred
NOT A Sl,.GLE RAY OF HOPE
Weter Pouring Into the Mine,
and Afterdamp Forming
Party Of Reseuers Lost

Pafty OF neScuep8 LOST
Pittsburg, Jan. Especial to the
Daily Silver State.-Advices from the
Cheswick mine, received this (Wed-
nesday) forenoon, state that up to 9
o'clock this morning fiftyseven bod
les had been recovered from the mine.
The work of rescue is now going on
uninterruptedly. 1t is believed that
every man who was in the mine when
the explosion occurred was instantly
killed.
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I. Pttsburg. Jan. 26.-Dr. w. b. +
4. Mccullough of Cheswick, who +
4. has been in the Harwick mine j.
1. for two hours and has just come i
I. to the surface, says that in his !
4. opinion not one of the miners in y
!. the shaft at the time OF the ex~ +
1. plosion Is alive. The rescuers are +
1. being brought out coated with ::
Il ice drenched to the skin and =
i. unable to walk. They report :.
= that dead are scattered one :.
i. above another as thick as pine +
4. needles. Water Is fast pouring =
i. into the mine. covering the !.
i. corpses with a shroud of Ice +
!. and making the work OF rescue :.
!. almost impossible. Afterdamp ::
I. is collecting In quantities. The :
i. dead numbers at least $50. Il
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Pittsburg, Jan. 26.-Between $50 an
200 men are lying dead in the head
ings and passageways of the Har
wick mine of the Allegheny Coal com
pany at Cheswick as the result of a
erriffic explosion yesterday morning
Cage after cage has gone down int
the mine and come up again. but only
one miner OF all those that went down
to work in the morning has been
brought to the surface. The rescue d
man is Adolph Gunia, and he is stir
in semi conscious condition at ths
temporary hospital at the rude schoo
house on the hill side above the mine.
In addition to the miners who we. e
at work when the explosion occurred
Selwyn M. Taylor. the Pittsburg min
ing engineer who plated the mine and
who was the first rescuer to reach the
bottom after the explosion. is also
among the dead At 2:25 o'clock this
morning his body was brought to the
surface. He evidently had been dead
several hours.
The explosion occurred at 500 in the
morning. The first warning was tn
sudden rumbling under ground and
then q sheet OF flame followed up the
deep shaft. Both mine cages were
bown through the tipple twenty feet
above the landing stage, and the three
men on the tipple were hurled to the
ground The injured men were brought
at once to this city. where two of them
died later.
As soon as the rumble of the ex-
pioslon and the crash at the pit mouth
startled the little village the wives
and children of the men below rushed
to the scene of the disaster. There
was no way to get into the deep work
ings. The cages that let the men into
the mines and brought them UP again
when the days work was done were
demolished All day long there was a
jam OF waiting women and children
above the mouth of the pit. There
were calls for assistance and for sur
gical aid from the men In charge OF
the mine, but II was not until O'Clock
In the afternoon that the first attempt
at rescue was made. This was fall
ure. as the two men who volunteered
Were driven back by the foul air.
Shortly after 5 O'Clock Selwyn M
Taylor and one of MS assistants sig
nailed for the engineer to lower them
into the shaft. Taylor never returned.
Three times efforts were made to
reach him, but not until cary this
morning was his body recovered.
Thomas Wood. one of the first OF
the rescue party hauled to the surface
said:
II was with Taylor and we Chamber
ed over three or four falls. Taylor
had laid out the mine and seemed 10
know the way. There was one man
alive at the foot of the shaft. He waf
sent up and then we took the mulS
path into the south level. We saw
two men who were alive and notified
those back of us and then went on
We passed the third. fourth and fifth
heading and then through an over
drift into the air shaft. / began :,
Taylor stagger and fall. His Lantern
Tell. We tried to lift him up. bu
could not carry him and ] made my
own way to safety"