The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-22
The Heroic Battle Was Renewed This Morning
70 Bring the Live Men Up Out Of the Mine
On the Ninth Day Since the Disaster.
BARRIER OF EARTH MAY HIDE MEN
Voices Heard During the Night in the Mine, S, s.
posed to Come From Men Who Are Yet Alfx
in the Bowels OF the Earth

to save from death 100 or more miners
who are believed to be still alive in
the ST. Paul mine here, was taken up
WITH renewed vigor today after so
volunteers had struggled all night with
the deadly gases of the pit.
At a. m. no more dead bodies had
been recovered and rescuers were rap
idly loosing hope that any more of the
entombed men were living. The volun-
teers are working in the west tunnel
of the second level A gh barricade,
cf~sed by cave-in Of earth, separates
them from another section of the tun-
rel, where between 70 and so men are
supposed be alive.
All day yesterday and all last night,
miners working in eight hour shifts,
attacked tais barrier, Many of the res
cuers worked until they fell exhausted.
Hundreds of tons Of earth still remains
to be removed today. This is the ninth
day Of the imprisonment Of the miners.
1t is impossible to tell with any de-
gree of certainty whether any Of them
are living. Many OF the rescuers re-
ported today they were sure they had
heard signals from behind the earth
barricade during the night, while
others insisted they heard voices. Just
how much of these reports can be
attributed to the strain under which
the rescuers have been working, It! IS
Impossible to say 1t IS pointed o.
that the 81 men taken out Of the mine
alive on Saturday, we're particularly
fortunate in having had their full din
ner buckets WITH them. On the con-
tents of these they were able to sub
sist very we'll and their condition when
brought up, was not nearly as bad as
was expected.
1t is certain that if living men still
remain in the mine, they cannot hold
out against hunger and thirst much
longer. Richard Newsam president OF
the Illinois board of mine inspectors
was optimistic today. These men
are still alive he declared, Il base
that opinion largely on the fact that
more than twenty of them are Scotch
men and Scotchmen are the most re
sourceful miners in the world. LOOK
at what Clelland did for the u men WE
took out Saturday feel sure that
those Scotchmen will have found some
way,to prevent suffocation and starva
tion and will bring the men up alive
The stencil of deeaying flesh, added
to the black damp in the mine. max,
it difficult for the rescuers to breath
Only 50 bodies have been taken on
by s o'clock today and preparation
were going forward to bring the other
to the surface.
Crowds Of People.
AS the result of delay due to the fac
that the great crowds that are gathe
ing here are hampering the wor
around the shaft, and to the circun
stance that esrious friction has deve
oped among the state and the count
officials, a movement has been star
ed here to put the town of Cherry III
DER marClal law.
Sunday there were $4,000 stranger
In the town. They came from as fa
away as Chicago, and they packe
themselves around the works in soil
circle 10 feet deep. All day long th
militia battled with the crowd, pres
ing it back and driving it out of forbi,
den places. All day long the crow
pressed in where it did not belong
clampering the workmen and filing a
the passages to and from the coal cor
pany's plant.
No More Living Recovered.
Not living man das added to tt
list of survivors Sunday. The re
cuers worked hard all day, but wei
unable to penetrate past the bank (
gas. However, thirty-five more bodit
were discovered in the second vel
Up to O'clock last evening fift
nine bodies had been removed fro
the mine. Twenty saved, ninety-fo'
known dead and 1876 missing was tt
record at the st. Paul Mine Sunday.
Shortly before midnight word can
from the foot Of the shaft Of the
Paul mine that workers on the ca
side Of the second vein had distinct
heard the voices of two men shoutil
for help. Andrew Wilaite, drive
employed at the St Paul mine
Grandville, who has been brought oy