The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-15

outside assistance, this own is too
small 10 handle the situation alone
Nest Of our citizens are miners. and
the majority Of them are down in the
mine. N all probability dead. We are
doing everything possible to handle
the proposition, but it is too big for us"
Or. Howe. in charge of the relief
work, said the need of food. clothing
and none is great, and hat the eiti-
zens hope the people Of Chicago n
other places will assist in relieving the
situation
"Before anything else we will need
food and lots of it. Those poor women
and children will begin to face hunger
very soon. and then the situation viii
be terrible. Even now there is but lit
tie food in town. The only hotel here
has run short and the stores have been
sold out.
"Then the question of clothes for
women and the children ma turn out
to be a big one. When you realize that
there are 1000 children in the town,
then the magnitude of the situation can
be seen. They will need clothes and
need them badly"
Lodge Almost Depleted.
The knights of Pytbias Lodge, the
most important organization in town.
lad a membership OF seventy-fiye last
week. To-Day there are only six nen-
bers: the rest are in the Inflated mine.
either dead or dying.
From the miners who were rescued
Saturday it was learned that another
act of heroism was performed by one
of the men in the shaft below-a man
who is in all probability dead at the
present time. He was Walter Waite,
an assistant foreman in the second vein.
'When we got in the elevator the
first time" said Isaac Remulti, n of
the men who was fortunate .nougb
to reach the surface in the first cage
load. waite was standing near. He
ssffsed TO come up in that load, but
said he would stay down and give the
other Fellows a chance. ] know Flood
tried TO pull him into the cage, but he
refused to come.
LET ne stay where l Gm,' said he,
there are E lot Of other fellows who
ought 10 get out of here. Hurry up
that cage and get them. III try and
do what | can down here. Maybe II
amt as bad as 1t seems
'When I asked about him after the
second load had come up nobody knew
anything about him. 1t looks like he
was overcome by smoke and died down
In the shaft. He did not have to be-
cause he could have climbed in the
cage the first time If he had wanted
to-
Thirteen Die In Rescue Work.
The story of the thirteen heroes who
went down to their death in the blazing
shaft of the Cherry mine, and of the
one man who came back scared by fire
and blackened by smoke to tell the
CHASTITY tale, was related in all It's de-
tails and forms.
Standing out above all the others is
the story OF DR.. L. B. Howe, the man
who came back the only one of the
heroic fourteen who survives to tell
what happened. Seven times before the
other rescuers began to go into the
burning shaft he descended alone In a
lift and ZACH time brought to the sur
face his quota of saved. Twenty-Five
miners owe their lives to him.
His hands are badly burned, but he
shows no other scars. When asked to
describe his experience he merely
shrugged his broad shoulders and said
Il couldn't a done anything else
than I aid 1t is not worth talking
about. Besides I am too busy to talk
today"
The disaster brought to light manyl
heroes. Among these was IT..
miner, who, while fighting his way
through the binding smoke, stumbled
across the body of a little "trapper''
boy. who had been overcome at his post
of duty at one ,f the trap doors that
control the air apply.
STOPPING, the miner felt the boys
heart. Finding that life still existed he
took the unconscious form on his shout
ders and staggered on until he met one
Of the ~re.-.ers. Both the miner and
the boy reached the surface in safety.
Cariessness the Cause.
Thomas Hudson, Of Galva, in whose
district the Inflated mine Is situated,
was the first inspector TO arrive. When
asked regarding the blame for the fire
Hudson said:
from what I have learned ] can
only say that criminal carelessness on
The part OF some Of the men working
In the second vein Level is responsible.