The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-21

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= Cherry, Ill, Nov. D-At illu llllsIa
; cutting off the rescue work. IRE
! apparatus was lowered and q stream
= of water again turned into the mine
= Up to midnight only twenty men
= have been brought to the surface
= The fire appeared to be spreading
) and the heat grew more intense X
= E Maxwell, mining engineer IN the
4 rescue party, was overcome ana hau
! to be hurTiedly brought TO the sur
= face.
Cherry. IL. Nov. 2, 2 a. NAT this =
y hour the fire is still burning and the
. heat is so intense as to prevent the
= rescue of any living before daylight
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All thought was of the men who were
alive. 1t took six hours to bring the
survivors to the surface. Meanwhile
report spread that seventy or more men
were alive in a far-reach of the mine,
cut off from escape by bank of black
damp between their barricade and the
main shaft
But two oxygen helmets remained at
the mine, the others having been started
back to Pittsburg this morning, and with
this scant equipment two experts began
a new exploration. At p. m they
emerged, their oxygen tanks being ex-
hausted, and reported no further sue
There are other resourceful leaders
among the missing, and they, like Waite,
J Clelland and others, may have led the
men to comparative safety" said stat
Attorney II. L. Eckert tonight. The
search is now for the living
Less optimistic notes were sounded by
others, but the women, with nope porn
aTresh refused to believes but the best,
and haunted the mine far into the night,
seizing franucally at every straw OF en-
couragement offered.
Bringing Bodies to the Surface.
From the top of the hosting shaft to
the sleeping cars drawn up on the SID
ings was a distance of about 100 feet
Between the crowd, held back by nlllua,
. a passageway was formed II was dlcns
i this line that the women, looking Tor
loved ones, gazed into the faces OF the
survivors as they passed through.
As night drew on the whole scene was
revealed only by pale moohllght anu
the Pickering torches worn on the caps
of the rescuers. Each time the slgnal
sounded from the hoist for the cage 10
come I'D from the mine the noise or the
crowd subsidized into muTmurlng expec-
Hoist her up" came from the depths.
"Hoise her up repeated the engineer
Then the men and women pressed for
ropes, determined to get as near as pos
sible to peer into the faces of the SUE
VivOrs. .
Everybody be quiet. Please don't
cheer" whispered the guards The ma
chinerv of the hosting apparatus rum
bled and screeched as the cage came up
ward.
Moments of Suspense.
Would there be in this load alive one
VITO had been mourned for seven days as
dead? This question flashed through
hundred minds. The passageway mar
roveed as each anxious locker instinct
lively pressed forward.
Here they come now. Look sharp"
woman here and there, who could
not see. held up a child and cautioned
it:
Look and try if you can see papa when
they pass"
The machinery stopped. The cage
was up and a dozen torches shed a
dingy light on its passengers. There
stood the rescuers, wearing shiny rub
Der coats and white caps Between
them, wrapped in militia blankets, they
held the rescued men, some standing,
others carried in arms. Slowly the