The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-23
Rescue Work Begins at
 Daybreak. TWO HUNDRED MEN
 ARE SILL MISSING Officials Put Faith in the Scotch
 Workmen. Discovery of Live Rats Tn Remote Veins Adds to Hope of Finding More Survivors Many
 Dead Bodies Brought
 to Surface.

Cherry, H., Nov. 22.-An opening 10 the third vein. or the lowest level, of St. Paul mine. was forced shortly be- fore midnight tonight. The removal of bodies or the rescue of scores per- haps imprisoned in the veins, will be- gin before daybreak.
 Tests made late tonight showed the existence Of air in the lower vein. Candles lowered into 1t on strings had the flame sucked away from the shaft indicating the presence of an air cur- rent in the vein. 1'housands of gal- Ions of water have been poured into the gallery in the effort to extinguish the fires in the level above it.
 With air and water In abundance in the mine, hope for the rescue of those within 1t, Is strong In the breasts of those watching above 1t.
 The opening that has been cleared is q continuation of the main shaft. The shaft proper ends a. the second yeln, but to the gallery. is7 feet below. smaller opening extends, to which tached to the larger cage with rope and shortly before midnight the efrort to bring it to the second level was be- gun.
 That the cage would contain bodies of the dead on its first trip or be crowded with living. was tine ardent expectution of those working to iift 1t. It waE asserted that the miners. hearing the moving of the machinery would hasten to the cage, and that It's first trip would add as many to the iist of rescued as the car would hold
 The recovering of forty-two bodies durine the day was attended by soms of the saddest scenes of the dtsastefs Across the fields. when the first siK- nais of bodies coming up" was Rivens stumbled and iaborei almost 100 wo- men and children who had been driven from the shaft by the fierce wind ana cold.
 raenssaeatlea of Dsaies. The tdentiRcatfon of the bodies was ( comparatively easy task
 The smoke stains and burns found on the bodies of those previously taken out were absent and physicians de- ciared that all but few of the men had died of asphy xiation. some naa torn every vestige of clothing rom their bodies in their agony.
 Amonr the first bodies carried out was those of two of the trapper boys. The fraii bodies of the children neith- er more than 14 years old. were ten- derlv piaced in the temporary morgue hv thr bearers who wept as bitterly as if the children were their own,
 That they had lived ana retAlnea their faculties for many days before the black damp crept upon them was obvious but physicians declared unhes- itatingiy that every man had been dead for at least forty-eight hours
 Grresome tokens of the futile hgnt for life made by the men taken out dead today were found close oesiue inc bodies, On the walls of the shAft had been fashioned rude wooden pin- wheels. shaped in the fashion of venti- iating fans and intended to bring 1E feast some current of air to the lips cf a dying man. Boards torn from me timbering of the mine had been crude- ,v nailad or tied about the handles or tho miners picks These the men had turned by hand. standing close 70 them to gasp any oxygen stirred by the movement of the improvised ventiiat- Ing fans. Close beside the lahs tns