The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1904-02-05
SIXTY BODIES HAVE
Be N RECOVERED
Many of Them Are Almost
UNI ec3gnlzlbie.
HORROR IN THE HARwIcK MINE.

Hope of Finding Any OF the Ertombed
Men Alive Has Been Abandoned.
Sac Scenes Around Entrance to the
Fatal Mine.
Pittsburg, Jan. 2S.-This morning
| the two headings of the south main
entry were explored. Sixty bodies
! victims of the Harwick mine explo-
sion on Monday last-have been re-
covered. Most all are burned aud
mutilated beyOn recognition.
The north entry, where it is belieV-
ed most of the bodies will be found,
probably will be reached by search
ers some time today. The hope Of
finding any of the entombed men alive
was abandoned.
The grief-stricken wives and chill
| dren of the victims, who have stood
sntvering about the mouth of the mine
| since the accident occurred, were
forced to seek rest early this morn
| ing. through sheer exhaustion.
Soul sickenlng Task.
II was a soul-sickening task and
strained to the limit the nerves of
| the men comprising the searching
party, many of the corpses having
! their heads severed or being so Sc
verelY burned as not TO resemble
human beings. Pittsburg people will
attend to the last sad rites over the
dead. This morning a train load OF
collins left West Pennsylvania sta
ton in Allegheny for the mine.
NJ A. Clouse, an undertaken Of
the Allegheny Coal company Of bury
ing the dead and he at once arranged
with James Fullerton to assume con-
| troll Each body will be embalmed
and will be given a grave of its own.
General Appeal To Be Made.
Bernard Callaghan, deputy state
mine inspector of the Ninth district
upon coming to the pit mouth after
hours of work of rescue in the mine
stated that he believed that by to-
night all the bodies will have been
removed from the mine. A general
appeal for aid for the families of the
miners who lost their lives through
the explosion will be issued from the
little mining village of Harwick with
in the next 48 hours.
An effort will be made to raise at
least $4,000 which amount. it is fig
ured, will be adequate to provide for
the suffering and almost destitute wo-
men and children until the warmer
weather comes or until some perma-
nent arrangement can be made for
caring for them.
Bodies Brought to Surface.
Forty-nine hours after the explosion
in the Warwick mine the first
first dead body was hoisted to the sur
face. II was 9:18 this morning when
the first body was hoisted from the
bottom of the pit. Then ore at a
time. q others were brought from
the black hole and carried to the
morgue at the school house.
Among the bodies found was that Of
a stranger. Clothes were on it, and
II was only slightly burned Who
he was or what he was doing in the
mine no one knows. He may have
caused the explosion by lighting a
match.
Against the theory that the stran-
fr-,k
10 the fact that it would be contrary
70 all precedent for him to have been
allowed to enter the mine unless he
gave up the matches he carried and
went under the care of an experienced
guide.
H. A. Mcmillan, who lead one party
Of searchers. said:
Head Blown from His Body.
Fifteen bodies were found in Butt
No. l, Of the south entry. All OF |
them, with the exception OF the stran-
ger, were badly burned and mangled. |
On mans head was blown OF. In
the south entry we found two men ly- |
ing face downward near each other. |
These had evidently been killed By |
the force Of the explosion. In an
other place we found Six men, all ne J
groes. believe. Five were in q heap. !
and one was pinned under a car. We |
found the driver OF that entry lying |
along the roadway. where he had been |
blown. Rooms ten and twelve south |
entry were caved in to the depth of
5 feet. There are several men bur
led there, as there are undoubtedly
men buried under the rocks of the /
mine. For this reason it will be
weeks before all of the bodies are re-
covered"
inspector Cunningham says the air
in the mine is getting better every
hour, but there is still considerable
gas encountered. From the condi-
ton Of the bodies he thinks now that