The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-23
|yEARCH FOR LIVING
| STILL CONTINUED
Heroic Volunteers at Work
Against Fearful Odds in
Fated Cherry Mine.
FORTY.TW0 BODIES
RECOVERED ON MONDAY
Tcuseness of Situation Shown
by Rushing of Long-Dead
Body TO Hospital.

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q CHERRY. H.. Nov 22-Robcrt =.
I: Mcr,ddcn and Barney Doughcrty. =
,ro miners who penetrated 120 =
!: icsr inlo the third vein. expressed =
{, eou6dencc that a snaJorlty, If not =
ali of the 100 miners imprisoned =
tbis vein are baTrlcadcd In -
!, "pockcts' and alive. =
y: Work of the exploring parties II
. was discontinued for 4 few hours :"
!. while hasty preparations were 4
. made 10 equip II party that carly =
|. ,omorrow expects to penetrate =
! every opening of the lowest shaft =
I Of the mIne. ::
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CHERRY, ILL.,. Nov. 22.-Efforts to
zach men possibly still alive in the
81 pauI mine were made in two direc-
tions today-cnst and west. In the lat
,er section the attempt was made at
The third, or bottom. gallery, at the
ssmest request OF Duncan Mcdonald,
prrsideni of the United Mino Workers
ol Illinois, and nine other officers of
lhc ornanization. The gloom OF the sit
. .ation here was accentuatcd today by
Ne weather Rain fell ali night and
. IA the forenoon turned 10 snow. Al
nost 10 relatives Of tho missing were
., the scene.
Efforts to explore under ground con-
. nued with unabated viCor, Dozens
ci volunteers worked against the most
l tnsperating odds TO extend their eX-
/ plorstious. Earth and coal were re
noved. only 10 be followed by another
\ ayein.
n Still Rays of Hope.
"Thcy re still alive down there, -
4 vas the watchword OF every worker,
\ although evidence of this was mcager
4 The first raw of hope came when men
! Al work in tho east workings broke
4 through fall Of earth, whore IT had
been expected by experts that large
pamber of bodies would he found, Not
one waS discovered Instead, In tool
ehsei, bewed out of the earth, a great
many mining implements were found,
a laid down. apparently, when the men
4 came there to eat. A fact regarded as
4 ignificant was that not dinner pail
Il tnained. From this it was argued
4 TIA, the men. unable TO escape when
n ile fire was discovered. rctrcated TO
scme extremity Of the mine, carrying
her food with Them.
III The next ray of hope cnme with the
dlseoyery that the bottom. most gallery,
vest. was not sufficiently flooded TO
Impede progress.
III Third Gallery Explored.
lofmed the subject of the conference
u IN.
hr. The delegation. headed by Presi"
t'nt Mcdonald, insisted that an at
'snpt be made TO explore the third
lslcry, generally believed TO be of lit
" Importance. At tho time of the
t'hslrophc, little. If any, work was be.
1s done in this section
AT. Taylor was impressed with the
psory that the mon cut off in the see
"a gallery might have found their way
Mo the gallery below, whore there is
s9h hre, and ordered its exploration.
IN this galIery-thc lowest of the
Eme-thcrc is an overcast, or an
uegular shaft, distinct from the gal
VI III men who were in this part of
ne nine thought of the overcast
aa were able to reach il. they arc
npoably alive now said Mr.. Taylor.
n The gallery proper there is much
Esf but wc hope that IL is not so
III ya eut that rcscucrs can make Their
Itsy through it."
II Death In Black Damp.
III s'encrs who carried up twcnty-threo
hIes Today said there was evidence
- ,sa' Tho men had walled themselves i'm
~ s'cral days. but had emerged 10
"a ~ q ~ lood and water and had met death
AZ point beyond where the search
hdd gone, several declared they
Lla sec the shattered blocking Of 4
n n, he. where The men had taken refuge
tcE souies arc scattered along the gal
ILL., ior many yards. Men who found
'sn believed the victims collapsed
weakness or asphyxiatIou before
IN sn, MY Yards toward the entrance
N, ie bodies were burned. and il is
|ihTgae Thai of the fortytwo no
: H. ~ o"en IN the pocket. The exist
Issstu me refuge was denied by othcl
ii roers Of the party.
ID Err. 'rnseness OF tho nerves Of the
-, ~ II shown by n remarkable Incl
~ ,nis afternoon. \ man who proved
'ah I.,ss o.en dead many days, was be
n L,fasa !" pe alive when brought 10 lh'
4 IA auu Wns rushed TO the hospIta
y Itc,,eaa mistake, however, soon bccam,
hsI Renewal of Hope.
- ,vpSnlng 10 the third vein. or low
$ ,,aS sS'ei of the St Paul mine. wa
80 ,o dust before midnight tonight
p.sf "movel OF bodies OF the rescu
IN NJ SS'rcs believed to be imprisonc,
~ fs.,s' vein VII begin before daybrenS
~ }as,ss made late tonight showed th
.de Of mir in the lower vein
~. A. lowered into il ou strings ha,
3, nsinnn ,ne sucked away from the shaft
! D. fbnas The presence of an air current
rahds ds Of gallons Of water hav
In poured into the gallery in tn
Fe !, cxtngGish fires in the leve
I ~ MI m ayr and water in abundance i
Gc, n hhin ~ hopo for the rescue OF thos
Spenlng that has been cleared
- Eaft ,"uation tion of the main shaft. Tn
10 to'gVpci ends ~ the second veiI
pbf'I " The gallery, 10 feet below,
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