The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-23
Work of Rescue is Retarded By Foul Gases ACCumu-
 IatIng in the Mine
PHYSICIANS CALLED UPON
 ID APPLY RESTORATIVES
Coroner Paris Organizes Jury to Go Into the Case-List of the Dead Victims So Far
 Identified.

Seventy-six bodies have been recovered from the mines at Virginia City, and 1t is believed that from forty-one to forty-five are still in the mines. The work of get ting to the bodies was delayed consider ably late yesterday afternoon and last night by the collection of white and black damp in the mines and the awful steneh resulting from the decayed bodies of men and mules. There are fourteen of the latter still in the mines, and they have been there for forty-eigh hours and are rapidly decaying.
 About o'clock last night the resucers had to come to the surface and announce that they could progress no further until they received dislnfectants. The physi- clans at the mines were able at the time to supply a small amount of disinfec- tants, but the supply was limited and it was necessary to send to Bessemer for more.
 Could Not Stand Stench. The damp" the fumes resulting from the explosion and the burning, are in creasing ,and the workmen are progress Ing slowly. Late yesterday afternoon four of the rescue party had to be brought to the surface, unable longer to stand the strain of the stench and the damp Two of them were rapidly becoming un- conscious and the physicians had to has, ten to their assistance. They recovered rapidly after they were brought to the surface, but a few minutes n.ore would have sealed their fate.
 The rescuers had gone beyond the cur rent of good air in their efforts to get to those bodies which were beyond They failed to notice that their safety lamps were burning low and that the flame was bad, and suddenly they found themselves overcome Others who were in the mine at work on another portion hastened to their aid and tip was sent to the top to bring down physician. Dr. Glasgow, resident physician at the mines, went down anc soon the men were brought to the top. where other physi- clans were in attendance and they could be given medical assistance.
 Bodies were recovered rapidly until about o'clock last night, and the fol- lowing were taken out between midnight
 
 afternoon:
 Whites.
 TOLsEY vIRISTo. Italian.
 JERRY KILL.
 A. J. JACKSON.
 w w SHOEMAKER.
 FRED WIFE, or WYATT.
 ED BRYANT.
 JESSE WEAN FER.
 J. F. JORDAN.
 ROBERT PEARSON.
 w. H. DONALDSON.
 P. N fSTUCKEY.
 LUKE BAILEY.
 Negroes.
 HENRY TURNER.
 STEVE TURNER.
 IVEY WALKER.
 JIM and SAM SIMPSON.
 H. R. JOHNSON.
 A. G. JACKSON.
 AMOS BROWN.
 ELISHA HALE.
 HENRY STEVENSON.
 GEORGE HUFFMAN.
 TOM CALDWELL.
 JIM HUFFMAN.
 WADE JOHNSON.
 HOMER DAWSON.
 JACKSON BOWEN.
 DAVE SMITH.
 JIM BURTON.
 Horribly Burned and Mutilated. Most of these men were found in the third and fourth levels and many of them were horribly burned and mutil- lated Everyone of the bodies were de- caying rapidly and the rescuers could scarcely stay in the mines long enough to place the bodies on the tip" and send them to the surface.
 These men showed that they were near the origin of the explosion where it's fierce was the greatest, for the skulls Of some of them were literally riddled with holes and fractures. There were at least dozen small holes in the skull of one man. and three or four fractures. show ing that something had been driven against his head with enormous force. The workers are straining every nerve to get into the third left Tor there they expect to find about forty miners and helpers They also expect to find the greatest damage done in this level for it was here that many think the explosion orisinated and was most powerful. The indications are that the explosion start ed on the third level and that the force of 1t was upwards, but at the same time the fire spread downwaros towards the foot of the slope. At the bottom Of the slone the timbers and props are in some nlaces not even jared, and many of them rould easily have been pulled from their nlaces before the explosion. But In the nnner levels they are all torn down and displaced, and some of them have been driven long distances from their places.
 At Third or Fourth Level. All this points to the explosion hav- ing been strongest about the third and fourth levels. while below they are not so badly charred by the fire. The bodies found on the upper levels are also In ,,,uch worse condition than those lower down. They are more badly burned and worse mutilated.
 Coroner Paris empanneled his jury yes terdav morning at 10 o'clock in Bessemer. If consists of James c. O'Hare, Adam Powe of Wylam. Joseph Hoskens, J. D. Hanby. superintendent and general mana gsr of the sloss ore mines; Tom H. Tin