Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-11-22
Rescue Band Works NobIy All
Day Sunday Without Adding
Any to Number of Survivors,
Ten Bodies Recovered,
DAY OF FUNERALS
IN STRICKEN VILLAGE
Hope Held Out for Many Still
Imprisoned Though Help
Must Come Soon to Save
Them from Starvation,

tBy Morning journal Special LAased wir.I
Cherry, ILL.,, Nov. 21.---'rwenty saved
ninety-two known dead and ias miss
ing was the record at the st. Paul
mine tonight. What had promised to
be Cherry's real day of thanksgiving
ended In night OF hope deferred, or
despair
Ten dead were brought to the SUR
face today and thirty-seven more
dead We're located in the second level,
but We're not brought up on account
of black damp.
At the end of the day no living man
or boy had been added to the list of
the twenty rescued yesterday
All day the tollinR OF church bells
resounded in Cherry and Spring Val
ley Eighteen bodies were inferred
At the mine a dozen coffined VIC
Tins remained awaiting removal.
while a score of caskets were piled
nearby for the bodies which are to
come Services for the dead were
held outside the chuches into which
Coroner Malm deemed II inadvisable
that the bodies be taken.
From the yet untitled graves in
which the Romau Catholic dead were
placed, the priest hurried 10 the mine
entrance, where, with a second priest
he waited TO administer thte last rites
for the dying should his services be
needed
Mayor Connolly telegraphed Prcsi-
dent Taft at Washington last night
that twenty men had been rescued
and that 100 We're believed to be
alive
"'rhe men they brought up could
not have lived more than a few
hours longer said one despairing
woman. ''If they don't come up to-
day they'l come up dead"
The rescucrs worked as IL this was
their belief. The fire in the second
level was forced back and early in
the afternoon the workers could pass
IT, The black damp was the obstacle
that proved lnsurmountable to the
men.
Through it the bodies of thirty
seven men could be seen. Prepara-
lions for the taking out of thirty
,cven bodies visible to the explorers
were rushed when the morbid throng
That the bodies might have been
aiken up earlier was admitted by
hose in charge of the work, but they
thought Of tho scenes that would have
ansued
In the main level the work of the
'escuers went on increasingly, Relays
II eager miners succeeded those whose
strength failed. Those who staggered
rom the pit mouth were surrounded
instantly and a babel of questions
we're hurled at them.
we can see the bodies There are
,iles Of them. They are dead, boys,
~ dead. was the reply OF the first
nd those who followed gave no more
heering answers.
"But they could be living back
here, they could be alive, tomorrow
ouIdn't they?" came a voice from
he group about one.
mo chance" began the miner. then
a used. as hc saw the trembling
ands of the old man who had pressed
, his side.
why sure. didn't the others come
Ut p" was the quick reply Don't
ou worry. .He'll be up soon"
The pressure OF the crowd was not
be- only reason which led the res
uors 10 delay in bringing bodies to
he surface. Black damp was present
here the dead lay in a group. just
3 they had fallen when their lives
ere snuffed out. "Klondike," who
ad worked among the dead in many
inc disasters Bob" Murray. who
so holds black damp in consider.
Die contempt, and others. are said 10
ave volunteered To remove the bod
= To clear passage Tor a further
arch for any who may remain alive
the further rccesses Of the gallery
lnscrVativc counsel prevailed and
10 hoisting of the bodies was de-
yed until the noxious gases had been
cked out by the big ventilating fan.
Richard Newson, president of trtc
inois board of mine inspectors
ngs 10 the belief that many yet live
"Scotchmen are thc most resource
I miners in the world" he said.
nd there are twenty-five of them
'wn there dead or living I can see
reason why they should not have
und some refuge just a. did those
ho came up yesterday. But eight
ys have passed and We must hurry
they are not to perish of thirst and
arvation. Everything possible 70
lrry on the work of exploration II
ing done"
IL an. rcnortcd .onight thai 1,hor