The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-20
Bodies Of -Four Men Are
Brought to Surface When
the Work Is Stopped
RESCUERS DRIVEN OUT
BY TUMBL|NG WALLS
Some Hope to Find Their Relatives
Still Alive But Expert Declares
That All Men In the Mines
Are Dead.

Are Dead.
Cherry. ILL.,. November 19.-Science and
desperation have greatly checked the fire
that snuffed out 800 lives in the st. Paul
coal mines last Saturday. Men brayed
today the hre-swept tunnels to bring to
the surface the dead; charity has poured
aid into the homes of suffering survivors
but all of this cannot subdue the grief of
Cherry's inhabitants when the sight of
the dead, lifted from the tomb, exploded
their hopes that men might be rescued
alive
1t has been just six days since fire,
started in a bale of hay, swept the 300
breadwinners of this community to their
doom, and in all that time of anxiety but
five bodies of the entombed have been re-
covered, four of them today and one last
night. Tomorrow probably many more
dead will be recovered. More were found
today but explorers working deep into the
second gallery vex6 fofeed to fly for their
lives, as they w&1 1T to bring them
out, when fallin8'' <(dFRnd rock endan-
gered them. *5zs3!
Tonight miners n 4s Sbt to work replac-
ing the burned Emh6E1 9and clearing OBJ
structiuris vhicht access into the
veins for mcre 7fI[IU&U feet from tne
main shaft. Be5t{x <6fs point fires still
burned. Rsz<
The mine insr& <&eere satisfied to-
night with the pf5I ~ of the work. All
but three inspe3 ~ M for their homes
tonight.
sorr{v 1eene.
The mine todaY t1 \ sorrowfxascene.
AS the weeping ~6 len and children
viewed the dea1E11IE nrief moved the
hardest heart zX&& MHht of mutilated
forms brought e. Hin that there was
no hope for anyi being who failed
to escape after II y. This realization
drove many of chs 6W1n11u to their homes,
where agents of qFere able for the
first time to talk on satisfactorily.
Conviction tha& " GHz< Husbands were
dead prompted n W66en to think of
their future and II &Ildren.
fCherrv all day 1 IN mecca for thou
lis of yisitors 3&o 6k6d by the open
- lof the mine. 3I|IIX came in special
ahS g. automobils6 |TIIkes and on foot.
nefmilitary gua aRd the mine pre-
I'D perfect orr anu no disorder of
yeSlind was reported.
> The dead recovered today were identi-
fled as Henry Kroll, SO years; Alfred
1yro,, TX wears. father and son: George
McCullen, S6, and Charles Waite, aged S2.
At the time members of the rescuing
,,,rtv r,orlring In tba SECOND level were
almost cut off from the escape by sud-
den falling of rock and earth, they had
,,lacad two bodies on q stretcher and were
,.s ~ 80 ,.,r thar, 70 tba coga In +ba
hoist;ro shaft when WIN a series of loud
orts . sI,on,er os sebris 40 mo do1yn
.epro,, tha hodias ana MN for Won,
lives - sbouted tbe leader
M. v,,ar were tben about 25o foot in
80 Az ,o,sting sboft Eartbey in tbav
- .aa a graa+ bean of bodies They
eoaao 80 ,s mo-, avs and n,,,1es indis.
.,.s,.nta,,, 'ne n,iyad IN ,o+ing tb.t hosoro
-, .ss,,,os - a No., d,;,,a,, f,o,,,
49, ..s' shost hu tho heat and in tho Anal
.,,1.,a nc - +,,,h,ed over each other
Rescuers Driven Back.
Leaving behind them the two bodies
which thew had struggled hard to reach,
tba fire fighters rushed to the hosting
shaft where they were revived by the
cooler air. They were quickly brought
to the ton.
None was found to be hurt. 1t was
explained that the cold water poured into
the hot mine had the ef1eot OF coonng @ .ne
wais. me clearins a~as ,'l' u ai,,,os. e, t,e
s.,-s .eto-,,,nn
.I =. .,,.,a .uar ha;no b,risd
- % a. ,,iners nav
~, = s5 ,,,r.,.
s'1, 1,.,o " ,,ost,,,, No ro,,,vsd TODAY as Of
n-..,a s'.sssaaaa ;n aatt,rs into the re-
asa ssts - tha ya,Isr,es
'no.. - "a ,,t,,ar whn lost son declared
u ..,,, honsfuI
nc mra w. a,,+o,,bsd IN rn;,es have kent
.p.-,ss,,,as oIive 90 long &c IN davs" he
satd. 1T hone some of those men were
-,r,sa enough tn get into some of the gal
,.r,ss and harricade themselves in there.
,rhaw would have been able to wall the
aI,s~,es IN with COAL and shut out the
.ss Tn this wav thew could exist a
wseT when this debris has been cleared