The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-15

dn examination OF the smoke ing
from the main shaft, and dev i his
belief that it was causeAS I'M the
timbers in the shaft that the
fire had not spread M
Missing Mem otal sss.
A list of the missing was complet-
ed Sunday in the office of the min
ing company, and it reached the as
founding total of 1856, including the
thirteen charred bodies taken from
the mine Saturday. One hundred
and seventy men who entered the
mine Saturday have been accounted
for.
The crowd became SO large and un
ruly about the mine that it was found
necessary to stretch, ropes an, -
tion many special policemen to hold
it in check. Along the outskirts Of
the crowd were Rev. Father Wenzell
pastor, and Rev. Father Ernest, assist
ant pastor of the Holy Trinity church.
and Rev. Thomas Gleason, pastor OF
the Congregational church, consoling
suffering women, and, in some in
stances, offering up special prayers.
An idea Of the calamity may be
CLEANED from the fact that in a string
Of thirty-three houses on Long Row
only two miners were saved. In a
| family named Love the father and
four sons persisted.
Dramatic Scene al SHAFT.
When the experts had drilled hole
through the concrete at the top of the
! second vein air shaft and all pre-
parations made to lower Mr.. Williams
and his volunteer explorers, the
scene at the mine was dramatic.
Along the railroad tracks on one
side, in the fields on the east and
west Of the shaft was wall of hui
manity Stout ropes and policemen
kept the throng away from the men
/ at work
! 1t was silent but not undemon-
| strative assemblage. Occasionally a
woman's wall or fathers groan
would break the stiffness as the crowd
watched the men proceed to the dan
gerous task before them. -Four men
1 appeared. their oxygen bags on their
shoulders, the steel and glass cover
cred frames covering their faces and
heads They were, beside Mr.. Will
1 liams of Urbana, his assistant, James
/ H. webb of the University of Illinois;
James Hand of Spring Valley, Ill
and Henry Schmidt of Peru. LAIR
Mine Inspector James Tay,,, OF
Peoria also donned the regalia.
a score of men were ready to as
sist them. A system of signals had
, been prepared. Two of the men
: were stationed at the top of tre shaft
i Williams and Schmidt prepared to de
! scend. Inspector Taylor drilled then
in their signals.
! Men Go Into Mine.
/. The men who were to undertake tise
/ exploration nodded assent. Engineer
/ Crowley, at the hoist which CONTROL
y ed the iron bucket in which Williams
4 and Schmidt were standing, announc
!. ed all in readiness, and the first mel
, to enter the ST. Paul mine since the
tragedy of the day before were slow
ly lowered
+ Wien 60 feet down the signal t.
O raise came and was at once obeyed
i. / The helmet covered explore-5 sool
t reappeared.
d "The bucket is not hung right,
l. said Williams. at strikes and bound
J. in the shaft 1t must be rebalanced,
e This work required some time
Meanwhile Williams and Schmidt e,
i planned to the mining officials an
It company menathat the shaft was fiji
e ed with smoke and that their powel
+ full electric lanterns would not pent
Z trate the gloom. When repairs ha
been made, an hour later, wit
Hand, Webb and Taylor at the whee
the explorers descended again.
e seemed raany minutes to the anxiou
g crowd and the more anxious officer
J. of the ill-fated company For 30
j. feet the bucket with its load of huma
r. freight went down. Then suddenl
S came the signal for ascent. Whe
e the men reappeared Williams said
d No Excessive Temperature.
f. I'VE found an obseruction at 81
e feet. We might have got by 1t, b.
If we signalled to come UP we wou
+ undoubtedly strike 1t coming up. v