Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-12-10
BODIES OF 120 C0A>
MINE VICTIMS ARE
RECOVERED
Prospect This Morning Was
That 400 Would be
Recovered by
Nightfdll.
WERE VlRGINlA'S
MODEL MINES
Investigation Being Made to Fix
Blame For Disaster Govern
ment Is interested -PennSyl-
vania Has Had -Four Hor-
rors in Ten Months.

Monongah, w. Va, Dec. 1O.--Con-
siderable headway was made yes
terday with the work of rescue of
bodies from the coal mines of the
Consolidation Coal company, which
were wrecked on Friday by a terrific
explosion At 10 o'clock this morn
ing 112 bodies had been brought to
the surface and twenty-nine more
had been located in the underground
workings way back in the hill
The work of rescue Is being push
ed as rapidly as the tired miners are
able after the strenuous days that
have passed since the explosion.
Many of them have had but a few
hours rest in three days, However,
1t is expected that most of the bodies
will have been rescued by tonight.
Not a man, who entered the mines
Friday after Thursdays holiday
and there were 425 of them escaped.
Every one fell a victim TO careless
ness of some one.
Who is guilty? is a question news
paper men and others are asking.
The only answer obtainable Is the
echo, guilty"
1t is a strange commentary that
the greatest disaster in the history
of American mining should occur in
West Virginia's model mines. For
the mines were the best equipped,
aCcOTulUS 10 Jne CnieI ullnt lIlSptc-
tor, James w. Paul, in the district
Theory follows theory regarding
the cause.
Locating Cause ard Responsibility,
A possible explanation which old
miners give is that a string of
coal cars, breaking loose, plunged
down the tunnel and probably crash
ed into lot of dynamite. which is
taken into The mines in 50-pound
lots.
This, 1t is thought, caused an ex-
plosion, which in turn exploded the
first collection of deadly coal dust,
wrecking both mines.
Another story, and one that is
given credence despite the fact that
every effort to hush it has been
made, is that a connection was made
between the two mines, and that
the gases rushing together exploded.
At the instance of Gov. Dawson the
entire mine inspection bureau of the
state is at work under the direction
OF Chief Paul. in an effort to locate
the blame
Fourth in Ten Months.
This is West Virginia's fourth mine
horror in 10 months, and the COVER
nor has promised swift punishment
if negligence has been shown.
There was pathos enough in the
scenes at the mines while the bodies
were taken out to make a nation
weep.
Mothers, wives, sisters and chill
dren gathered at the entrance OF the
mines until driven away by the COM
pany's police.
No man can write down in words
the story OF the pitiful grief and
mental suffering that was witnessed
during the hours l stood surrounded
by those whose loved ones lay cold
in death far beneath their feet In
the workings of those wrecked
mines.
Monogah is today a fatherless
the largest mining village in Wes
Virginia was shorn of its bread -pro
viding population as lint is swept by
a white hot tongue of flame.
Worlds Worst Mine Disasters in TN,
Past Half Century.
Johnstown, Pa, July II, 1909, II.
Auderlues. Belgium. March IL
1892, 200 dead.
Nainamo, Vancouver May 4
1887, 40 dead.
Lund Hin, England, Feb. 10. 1857
1S9 dead.
sydney, Australia, March 23, 1887
Dour Belgium, Nov. 1a, 1883, 12
dead
81 dead.
1887, 39 dead.
Mems, Belgium, March 5, 1885, s
dead.
Branzneli, mine near Brownsville
Pa, Dec. "a, 1883, 80 dead,
Ebbw Valley, Wales, May "a, 1901
so dead.
Harwick. Pa, Jan. 2s, 1904, IS
dead.
Hanna, Wyo, June 80, 1908. 20
dead.
Pas de calais, France, March lC
1905, over 1000 dead.
Cananea, Mex, June !, 1906, 10
dead.
Naomi mine, Belle Vernon Pa
Dec. /, 1907, "a dead.
Pocahontas mine, Virginia, leS'
307 dead
Newburg. w. Va, 1886, 80 dead.
Red Ash, w. Va, March 3, 1901
46 dead.
UNITED STATES HAS
ENORMOUS COTTON CItOI