The Cairo bulletin., 1909-11-17

Cherry. ILL.,. Nov 1c.--Troops have
been called for to prevent any un-
toward denonstras O.: when the
bodies Of the 800 miners entombed in
Saturdays disaster are brought to the
surface.
Sheriff Skogiand, telegraphed TO
Springfield late today asking Gov
Deneen to. send several companies Of
militia No violence mas been DIS
played and States Attorney Eskhart
hopes by the presence OF small
guard to prevent any i'll advised move
by the miners whose feelings are
wrought Up BY the lois oi their com
rades.
I'VE want troops AT once. We will
take no chances, declared Eckhart
When the bodies viii be brought up
is doubtful. None of the officials be-
lieye any OF the men are alive. The
fire in the mine today was more in
tense than when the men were Ell.
trapped. No efforts were made to en-
ter today.
Chicago Fire Chic: There.
Fire. Chief Koran. Of Chicago. ar
rived today with assistance and hose
ana chemical extingu:silers. Later q
fire engine and crew was sent from
ChicaAo. The seal over the mouth
OF the shaft remains intact. 1t was
intended to force water and chemicals
down through pipes. A thermometer
plunged into the sane covering the
seal showed a Temperature of 40 de-
grees, indicating that the heat in the
interior of the mine is intense.
Koran said:
'rEo lift the lid today woull mean
that the whole mine would blaze up,
thet, there would be no possibility of
recov ering even the bodies. The coal
deposits would take fire. the timber
supports crumble and it wolnd be
terrible ITO picture what would hap
pen. cerlIaLs another shaft may have
to he dug TO recover the bodies"
District President Mcdonald of the
mine, workers, in making the rounds
discovered that new baby had ar
rived at home which had lost a
father AMI eor The mother was kept
ignorant of the disaster. Eighty-six
homes were visited which, with the
exception of chldrer, were without
male members.
Fire Raging Fiercey.
Only the most frantic women who
lost their husbands yentured to visit
the shaft. These had to be almost
forcibly taken back. Frequently a
puff OF SMOKE issred from the erevice
in the shaft cover. evidence that fire
is raging within. If bodies are found
near the shaft it was declared 1t
would Indicate that the men persisted
nv fire. If thev are found in the dis
tant galleries suffocation will be held
to have been the cGLae. The repeated
sealing of the mine Is held to be snf-
ficient to generate enough gas to Kill
the men in any part OF the mine. The
location of the bodies will also indi-
cate aho,t when the men died, for
gasses are not fatally dense until
after the first fire is considerably sub
,dued.
Two hundred and fifty pine boxes
in which will be buried the bodies
when recovered, arrived today and
are stored near the mine, although
the iact is kept from the afflicted
famiik s. Manager Taylor said today
"Eve. y man in the mine was put to
sleep OF the day the fire broke out
Thre is no reason to arouse false
homes. ana there Is not ground for
hoping that single soul could have
leen ound alive an hour after the
fire.
Could Not Live.
"If is "a mistaken idea that the
miners cold have hurried far out in
the galleries and found oxygen
enough to eep them awe for day,
'The test showed that on the day
of the fire the air c..rrent had a
velocity of six, hundred feet minute.
The LONGEST gallery is three quarters
of a mile The IRE was intense and
the smoke and wi,ite damp whirled
to every corner of fhe mine. No liy'
ing thing could escape 1t.