The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-22
MANY MORE ARE ALIVE IN EAST
 MINE TUNNEL
Additional Signs that 9th CTS Survived the Terri.
 ble Disaster
Volunteers Still at Work Trying to Rescue Entomb- ed Miners.

Cherry. Ills. Nov. 22-The battle to
 save from death 100 or more miners
 believed to be alive in the St Paul
 mine here was taken up with renewed
 vigor to-day. after fifty volunteers had
 struggled all night with the deadly
 gases of the pit.
 The volunteers are working in the
 west tunnel of the second level A
 of earth. separates them from another
 section of the tunnel where between T0 and so men are supposed to, be
 alive All day and all last night men were working in hours shifts attack
 Ing their barrier many of the rescuers
 working until they fell exhausted. Hundreds of tons of earth still remain
 ed to be removed to-day. This is the
 ninth day of the imprisonment of the
 miners. It is impossible to sten with
 any degree of certainty whether any are living. Many rescuers to-day were sure they had heard signals from be- hind the earth barrier during the
 night. while others insist they heard feeble voices
 How much of these reports can be attributed to the strain under which the rescuers have been working. it is
 impossible to say.
 'The voice I heard sounded as if it were Tar away and sounded like cry Tor help" one of the rescuers said C en out Saturday had the good fortune to keep their full dinner pals. On the contents of these trey were able to subsiet fairly well and when brought
 up were not nearly as bad as was ex- pected
 In any event it is certain that if living men still remain in the mine
 they cannot fight hunger and thirst
 much lonSer. Richard Newsam, pres ident of the Illinois board of mine in spectors. was optimistic to-day. Those men are still alive" he de- clared- 'I base that opinion largely on the fact that more than 20 of them are Scotchmen and Scotchmen are the
 most resourceful miners in the world. Look at what Clelland did for the 21
 men brought out Saturday. I am sure
 that those Scotchmen have found some
 means of subsistence and will be brought up alive"
 Great crowds began to gather at the
 hoisting shaft at daylight to-day. The wives and children of the miners still
 buried stood shivering in the raw wind and the cold drizzle. pleading with the
 rescuers to hurry digging and bring
 "their men" back to them. The cur ious and the sensation-seekers joined them and whenever the cage came up with crowd of rescuers a babel of voices arose
 Are they dead?'' .sDid they talk to you?'' When will I see my man ?" These were the questions hurled at the miners from the crowd of women and children.
 Meanwhile it has become absolutely necessary to get the bodies of the dead out of the way. One rescuer re- ported the dead are lying in heaps in the passage ways The stench of de- caying flesh added to the black damp in the mine has made 1t difficult to work Fifty-nine bodies had been taken out at g o'clock and prepara- lions were going forward to bring the others to the surface. Temporary hos pitals have been established near the hoisting shaft to care for living men as soon as they reach the surface. There they w-l be attended at once and given stimulants and hurried to the sleeping cars nearby for further treatment
 Nearly all of the men who were taken out alive Saturday are in good | physical condition to-day though still | weak from their long fact. Several | were so fired by the reports that oth- | CTS were still living in the mine that | rescuers. but their requests were de- | nied. The survivors are still being | fed carefully to prevent any collapse | as the result of over-eating.
 All the survivors spent Sunday rest ing in the sleeping cars or at their | homes and giving thanks to God for their almost miraculous escape. Sew | eral say thsy had been below the sur | face of the earth for the last time. Tn -t first newspaper correspondent to en- ter the mine was John N. Beffel staff | of tie United Press who put on miners garb and was low cred into the mine in the cage this 
 1. That many more men are alive in the east tunnel. second level of the IL mine, was suddenly developed when II party of rescusrs broke through a wall | of earth and found instead of dead + bodies as they had expected, addition r. al signs of life. It was not believed Il that any could be alive in the Cf C-4w. were found in the west tunnel. Just behind the wall of earth the rescuers 'ound numerous picks and shovels whicn had been hastily laid aside. A leaps of miners working clothes. but 10 dinner pails. This indicated that he men had donned their outside clothes. taken their dinner buckets with them and retreated into the tun- lel.
 The personality of the men known U have been in this tunnel causcd the < evival Of hone. In the rarty was ( descended into the mine after the first ' Harm of fire had been given. With ! jim were William Hinds. an old miner | vho has the reputation of having sur 5 lived a long Imprisonment in a mine . Itsaster four years ago. George White, ormer assistant to the mine manager. md one of the colored miners eIn- 'loyed by the company and half a ozen old time Scotch miners. It is 'elieved these men have barricaded themselves against the noxious gases md are now alive and waiting for re- ease.
 As soon as this discovery was made. escue work progressed rapidly and L he walls which barred the way of he rescuers are being cleared.
 Flames are still evident in the tun- els. but do not interfere with the nen working in the east tunnel.
 A United Press representative re- naiued in the mine an hour and a half watching the progress of the rescue york before his Identity became known