The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-22
Rescuers in st. Paul Mine
Brave Black Damp Until
Forcibly Restrained From
Going Underground Again.
DYING WRITE LETTERS
TO LOVED ONES ABOVE
Twenty Saved 80 Known Dead
and 1913 Unaccounted for Is
Record in COIIiery Where
Many Bodies Can Be Seen.
SCOTCH SHOW METTLE

Cherry, H., Nov. 21.-Twenty
saved, go known dead and 1913 miss
ing, was the record at the st. Paul
mine tonight.
Ten dead were brought to the
surface today, and 81 more dead were
located in the second level, but were
not brought up on account of black
damp"
What had promised to be Cherry's
real day of thanksgiving ended in a
night of hope deferred or despair.
Tonight 10 living man or boy had
been added to the list of the twenty
rescued yesterday.
All day the tolling of church bells
resOunded in Cherry and Spring Val
ley. Eighteen bodies were inferred.
At the mine a dozen coffined victims
remained awaiting removal, while a
score of caskets were piled nearby
for bodies which are to come.
Services for the dead were held out
side the churches, into which Coroner
Malm deemed it inadvisable that the
bodies be taken. From the still untitled
graves. in which the Roman Catholic
dead were placed. the priest hurried to
the mine entrance where. with a second
priest he waited to administer the last
rites for the dying should his services be
needed.
Mayor Connolly telegraphed President
Taft last night that twenty men had been
rescued and that $50 were believed to be
alive. Each hour that passes now is
looked upon by the watchers as making
the chance of escape less.
Believe All Are Dead.
1.-THE men they brought up could not
have lived more than a few hours long
err" said one despaiTing woman. IL they
don't come up today they'll come up
dead"
The rescuers worked as if this were
their belief The fire in the second level
was forced back, and early in the after
noon the workers could pass it. Black
damp was the obstacle that proved insur-
mOuntable.
Through it the bodies of thirty-seven
men could be seen Preparations for TAX
ing out these bodies We're rushed when
the morbid thrOng about the mine had
thinned. In the main level the work of
the rescuers went on increasingly Relays
strength failed. Those who staggered
from he pit mouth were surrounded in
stantly and a babel Of questions hurled
at them.
piles of them. They are dead, boys, all
dead" was the reply of the first, and
those who followed gave no more cheer
ing answers.
"But they could be living back there
could be alive. Tom. couldn't they?"
came voice from the group about one.
mo chance" began the miner, then
paused, as he saw the trembling hands
Of the old man who had pressed to his
'Why. sure. didn't the others come
out?" was the quick reply
Don't YOU worry. Hell be up soon"
Rescue Corps in Danger.
The pressure Of the crowd was not the
only reason which led the rescuers to de-
Law bringing bodies to the surface. Black
damp was present the dead lay in the
group. "I[londike. who had worked
among the dead in many mine disas-
tiers: Bob Murray. who also holds
black damp in much contempt. and others
are said to have volunteered to remove
ne bodies to clear a passage for a fur
Their search for any one who may remain
alive in the further reaches of the gal
lerIes. Conservative counsel prevailed and
the hosting of the bodies was delayed
until the nOxiOus gases had been sucked
out by the big ventilating fan.
Among those who, after yesterdays re
turn TO the living of men long thought
dead. chung throughout today to the be
lief that additional rescues o. living men
were probable, is Richard NeWsOm, pres
ident of the Illinois board of mine in
spectOrs.
''Scotchmen are the most resourceful
miners i'm the world" said he. "and there
are twenty-five of them down there, dead
or living. I can see no reason why they
should not have found some refuge just
as did those who came up yesterday. But
eight DAYS have passed, and we must
hurry if they are not to perish of thirst
and starvation. Everything possible TO
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