The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-01-28
GIVING UP
ITS DEAD
Narrowing Scenes at the
HarWiCk Mine.
CRUSHED AND MANGLED
Official List of the Dead now Put
at l74 by the Mining
Company.
CRUSHED AND MANGLED

PITTSBURG, Jan. 2S-The Harwick
mine, in which 1874 miners lost their
lives, is giving up its victims as fast as
the engineer can raise and lower the
cage in response to the signals from
the men who are working at the bot
tom of the shaft. The burned and man
EIed bodies are drawn on seds to the
temporary morgue at the schoolhouse.
There they are prepared for burial.
Seventy-four bodies have been taken
from the mine.
The air in some parts of the mine is
very hot, and it is now feared the mine
Is on fire. If this proves to be the case
the work Of the searching party will be
seriously interfcred with.
The work of removing the bodies
from the ice and debris is so severe
that it is difficult to get men enough to
prosecute the search. The company Eas
made a second appeal for experienced
miners. The mine pumps will shortly
be put into operation again. and the
burden Of the search will be lightened
Every body brought out thus far is
crushed well nigh into shapelossnesss
Each has the arms raised and the
hands spread before the face, showing
that the doomed men foresaw their
fate and tried to ward it off. The fact
that the legs and arms are broken and
disjointed indicates that the force Of
the explosion must have been terrific
The only means Of Identification in
most cases are the brass weigh checks.
bearing a number, which each man
draws upon going into the mine a
checkman keeps record of the number
given each miner As the bodies are
Identified the names will be posted on
sheet Of paper on the schoolhouse
wall.
II. A. McMillen. who led one party Of
searchers, said:
Fifteen bodies were found in butt /
Of the south entry All of them, with
the exception of that Of the stranger.
were badly mangled One had his head
blown off. In room 1 of the south en-
try we found two men lying face down
ward near each other They had evi-
IDENTIFY been killed by the force Of the
explosion. In another place we found
six men, all negroes, l believe. Five
were in heap. and one was pinned
under a car. We found the driver of
that entry lying along the roadway,
where he had been blown"
Chief Mine Inspector Roderick has
reached the mine and assumed charge
The finding Of the dead body of Dan
lei Lysle Of Leechburg and the report
that another of the searchers is miss
ing is keeping down the number of vol
unteers, for they re - that there is
still much danger H. mine. but it
is believed that Mr. Roderick will get a
sufficient number of men to prosecute
the work vigorously. 1t is planned
now to hold union funeral services for
all victims on Sunday, with the excep-
ton of the Catholics, who will be bur
led according to the rites of their
church. Rev. Father Richard Hamil-
ton of Colfax and Slavish priest from
Pittsburg will probably have charge of
the services over the bodies of the
Catholics.
st. Paul's Roman Catholic Orphans
asylum Of this city has notified the
Harwick authorities that that institu-
tion can take care Of 200 children. The
mystery about the well dressed man
who was found in the mine and who,
It was surmised, must have been the
unwilling cause of the explosion has
been cleared. The remains were iden-
titled as those of David Lysle, the vol
unteer, who was overcome while
searching for the victims of the eXplo-
sion.