The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-11-19

ings, men and boys, 1t is now believed
are dead or perishing in the st. Paul
mine here, though experts, who sue
ceeded In penetrating the smoke-hlled
air shaft to the depth of 800 feet late
Sunday, returned with a ray of hope
for the grief.stricken relatives of the
entombed men.
That the fire has been extinguished
was the conclusion of mining experts
and inspectors sent here by Gov.
Deneen to investigate the clamity and
it's cause.
For more than thirty hours the
miners have been cut off from fresh
and undoubtedly have been subjected
TO smoke-flled veins. That life could
exist under such conditions is doubted
by many, but because no trace of high
temperature was found in the depths
of the mine, friends of the miners, and
even officials of the company, have
hope that the victims may have been
safety in remote recesses of the mine.
A. ]. Earling, president of the Chi
cage Milwaukee G st. Paul Railroad
company, who has not slept since ar
irving on the scene of the catastrophe
received an encouraging report after
heroic efforts had been made to open
the mine for the release of the en-
tombed men or the discovery of the
much-feared masses of dead.
From the son of one of the missing
miners, a young man named John
Reid, the railroad president heard that
a conclusion of the earth had been
felt by the farmers half a mile south
of the main shaft. The report was
sent to Henry Burke, an official of the
mining company. Burke rushed to
President Earling in the office of the
company.
I've heard signals from the men,"
he said excitedly.
What do you mean?" asked the
railroad president.
what signals?"
A Ray of Hope.
John Reid's boy says that he and
farmers whose lends is over the
southern end of the mine felt several
conclusions of the earth Sunday after
noon. There were several shocks, and
the men felt them are convinced they
were shots fired by the imprisoned
miners, and that they were meant for
an assurance that at least some of
them live"
"Oh, l hope So" said Earling "That
is at least encouraging"
R. Y. Williams, experts at the gov.
eminent experiment station connected
with the state college at Urbana,
created additional hope by a late re.
port that there was a good supply of
cold air in the second vein, located
80 feet beneath the surface. This is
taken as an indication that the in.
terror of the mine is not SO badly
aflame as was first supposed.
1t leads certain people to think that
at least some Of the men in the third
vein, 4S4 feet deep, are still breatine
and that their lives can be saved il
they are brought to the surface within
the next twelve hours or so.
Williams has made several descents
into the mine, but his last was the
most successful. He walked some dis
lance along the second level, but 2
rope attachment to his outfit limited
his exploration. He expects to dis
conect the rope on his next trip down
Crowd Becomes Unruly.
Subsequently, Edward Fellows, for
mer inspector of state mines, made al
examination of the smoke issuine
from the main shaft and declared hi
belief that it was caused from thu
timbers in the shaft and that the fir,
had not spread much.
President Earling is not the only OF
fetal who now expects bright things
but they are doing more hoping thai
talking.
The crowd became so large and un
ruly about the mine that 1t was foun,
necessary to stretch ropes and station
many special policemen to hold i
in check.
Along the outskirts of the crow,
were the Reverend Father Wenzell
pastor, and the Reverend Fathe
Ernest, assistant pastor Of the Hol
Trinity church, and the Reverend
Thomas Gleason, pastor Of the Cor
gregational church, consoling sufferin
women and in some instances Offer
ing up special prayers.
An idea Of the calamity may b
CLEANED from the fact that in a strini