The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-07
DEAD BODIEs Piled u

ones alive.
| DEAD BODIES PILED Up
! Relay parties bring no word of en-
couragement, TO the contrary their
only report is the finding of dead
bodies piled up. in the mine pits in
heaps of twenty, indicating that
when the explosion occurred, many
of them rushed to the openings and
persisted on the way-overcome by
gas.
A revised estimate of the number
employed in the two mines at the
time of the explosions, as given out
by mine and company officials places
it at $50, and all are believed to be
dead
INSPECTOR TAKES CHARGE
AS soon as the explosions occur
red the general managers Office at
Fairmont was notified and with all
possible speed steps were taken to go
to the. rescue. The explosion threw
the town into state OF horror and
not until company officials headed
by General Manager L. L. Malone
arrived upon thescene did there be-
come any organized or systematic
effort to cope with the terrible sit
uation. Accompanying Mr.. Malone
/ and other officials were a number of
physicians from Fairmont. Deputy
State Mine Inspector I1aure rushed
to the scene and took command of
the rescue work.
RESCUE WORK DIFFICULT
AS soon as the men could be or
ganized for a plan of action forty
rescuers began the work. The fans
were started in No. at noon and
the rescuers went into the mine in
pairs of two. relieving one another
at short intervals. as the gaseou5
and dust matter made it perilous to
remain any length of time beneath
the ground.
TWENTY BODIES FOUND
For fully two hours nothing bus
wreckage, such as blocks of coal,
mine timbers and machinery re-
warded the search. but at 4 o'clock
in mine No. twenty bodies were
found in a hep short distance
from the opening. These were not
brought out at the time as the pur-
pose of the searchers was to find
If any survived the awful disaster
and to bring them out first.
WRECKAGE TERRIBLE
No. s mine was badly wrecked a.
the mouth on the river front, the
wreckage of coal cars, four rail-
road cars. coal and other equipment
being blown into the river. but the
mine was not closed, and, after the
fans were started. after some re-
pairs had been hastily made, the
rescue party began its long seige {
| work Of attempts to enter the mine.
The opening at No. was speedily
roped off and placed under guard
so as to restrain the thousands OF
of people from rushing into danger
and from interfering with the search
ONE LIVE MAN RESCUED
At 3 O'Clock in the afternoon \
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Mine No. s, when Peter Orion, a
Polander, was taken from the wreck
ed mine by rescuers They found
him sitting on the dead body OF his
brother. Stanley Orborn. some dis
lance from the opening. Crazed with
terror. he could give no intelligent
account of his experience or whether
or not others had been killed near
him.
orborn was not gotten from the
main part of mine No. s, but from
an opening on the hill side, where
he and his brother were Mt work.
NO BODIES TAKEN OUT
At O'Clock no one had been taxi
On from mine No. s, except orborn.
He was sent to Fairmont to hos
pital and 1t Is reported that he died
shortly after arriving there.
vt No. s the explosion wrecked
the boiler and fan house completely,
throwing them half way over the riv-
er. w. H. Boyce, engine house and
fan foreman, was caught in the
wreckage. His back was broken
and other serious injuries received.
lie was taken to Cooks hospital ut