The Sentinel=record., 1909-11-17
Charity Aids Sufferers.

needed for the families of the vic tims of the mine disaster Also money is necessary to take care of these poor people during the winter, de. clared E. P Biclsnell of Washington, D. C., director of the National Red | Cross Society, today. after a confer ence with the charity workers gath cred here.
 The appeal was telegraphed to va rious cities in surrounding states. and soon afterwards responses came that supplies would soon be on the way.
 Headquarter were established here Gom which charity will be distributed systematically. A corps of helpers were enlisted and these started on house to house canvass of the miners | homes. Each widow of a miner was required to give data as to her cir cumstancas, one of the reports typi. cal of others as filled out by widow, read.
 | -N1Hte, MdiIe bOneUl.
 Victims of disaster, husband and one son.
 Nativity, Austria. Number of children, four aged months, 3, 5 and years respectively 1 Economic condition, without funds. needs clothing and household sup plies.
 Plans for future. would like to re- turn to Austria. (Does not speak Eng lish)
 Difficulty was encountered in many of the homes because of the hysterical condition of the women. By night the
 workers had not completed their task and no list giving the exact number of men entombed in the mine was obtained.
 Assisting MT, Bicknell are President
 Mcdonald, of District 12 United Mine
 Workers, w. w. Taylor, general man.
 ager of the mine; Mayor Connolly of
 Cherry, H., President Haney of the
 local minens' union, S. c. Kingsley,
 superintendent of the United Charities
 of Chicago, and Patrick Carr, of the
 state miners board.
 Outside of the scenes at the mouth iof the mine today the most pathetic
 incidents occurred at the place where
 the heirs of the dead miners were paid of
 What is your name?" one little or. phan girl was asked.
 Mary Maelmer." Well, what relation are you to Joe ] Maelmer,"
 He's my father" And is Louis NDaelmer your broth
 er?'
 "Yes."
 Isn't either of them up?g , No, they're both down. . Mayor Connolly acted in the capac- } ity Of bank cashier and paymaster for l the St. Paul Mine. 3 Along the walk at the bank were : lined the survivors of the disaster. It l was the regular semi-monthly pay day s Of the mine, and in the envelopes were l the wages of the six hundred em
 ployes of the mine, amounting to I Sl9'ooO At the mine office, half q . mile away the employees are given a their time checks the 1st and 18th oi 7 the month.
 e Today information was given that ! the wives or daughters of those who
 were 'down' would be given then n checks. Mayor Connolly stood be Q hind an open window and questioned q the women who held checks. n Among the line of people drawn ur e before the window were women bear ' ing in thei rarms their smallest babie. |. while other wide-eyed children tod n dled with them. t once in while woman would ap e pear at the window with face betrav
 ing no sadness, because he h,isbanC I was ''ap.' She had just been sent ts I the bank because he was busy at tn,
 mine.
 , Despite Sheriff Skolund's assurance 1 that no apprehension prompted tn, [ call of troops, many wild rumors wer,
 circlated. One was that crowd O
 men from ponts outside of Cherry
 Dl., had determined to take the situ l ation into their own hands and carry out the rescue work themselves. An, other said plot had been rormel tc blow up number of private cars in the switches here. One of them is the private car of President Earring. Of the Chicago, Milwaukee X St. Paul railroad, who remains night and day