Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-01
Machine Shops as Morgue.

The machine shops have been conyer,aa
into morgue, but the bodies viii, he sen,
to Trinidad today Supplies are beinp
rushed from all the surrounding 90
Sheriff j. S. Crisham of las an,ras
and Sheriff Farr OF Hurfano arc send,nr
armed deputies to assist.
1t is stated that seventy-nipe arc L,
70 De dead and as stated ONLY one man
Dio Mardino. was rescued a,i,,a o..
hundred and forty-nine are known IN
nave been in the mine at the time of ~
explosion. e VI 'he
Only the mothers and wives w.tcbi,.
thr9ush the night around the shaft and
ta.n sne On on ,ne rescuers with prayers and
tears SUI believe the missing live
The explosion occurred at 20 o.o,oo,,
yesterday afternoon. With terrific roor
.ne main shaft crumpled in, bIackine tho
en.Iaise 10 the main workings Five men
Killed by the concussion
Bodies Piled in Heaps.
The first rescue party found ,ba hosi.s
pied In heaps about the foot OF the air
smart where the frantic men had fought
ana trampled upon each other in their
struggle for liberty until overcome bv
sas and flames. Three bodies were taken
UP before the rescuers We're forcel hack
10 the open air
A party equipped with oxygen helmets
then entered the mine
Volunteers were rushed To Prtmero fro,,
all the adjoining camps and all njyht
hundreuS OF miners stood about the shaft
begging for chance to join the res.uers
Most of the miners employed are SIays
Hungarians and Italians But two Ameri'
cans, William Helm, electrician. and
David Williams, are among the missing.
Ihe hre which followed the explosion
soon burned itself out.
Fighting madly to ESCAPE through IN.
narrow. partly choked airshaft, tramp-
ing over their fallen comrades in their
struggle for life. more than half of tho
arsrno aTs miners employed in the mine were
We're torn and charred almost beyond
recognition, and it has been impossible
SO far to identify the dead
Both fans with which the property 10
equipped were shattered by the expIo
sion, and it was not until three hours
later that the ians were repaired and
j. r. Thompson, was able to descend
the alrsnaft They discovered three
bodies before they were forced to re-
turn 10 the surface Five men. one of
them a hundred yards away, were killed
at the entrance 10 the main shaft by
the concuSSfon.
Arrival of Rescue Parties.
Rescue parties were hurried to Prmero
from Trinidad. Sagundo. Starkville. So
prls and Cokeville. and worked desperate
ly to open the main shaft 1t soon became
evident, however, that the shaft was
hopelessly caved. and another rescue
party descended the airshaft.
Shortly before > O'Clock this morning
Supp. thompson, who directing the
rescue work, was overcome by gas and
taken to the surface. He soon recovered
and again went below.
Dio Nardino. the one man rescued alive
declared that he crawled over scores Of
bodies after the explosion and saw no
one who was not injured.
The rescuerS say that the entire mine is
wrecked and 1t is almost impossible that
any of the entombed miners are still
sion was confined closely to the workings
near the main shaft and soon burned
itself out
Supt. Thompson was reinforced by
every superintendent and expert within
reaching of the mine. and hundreds of
miners stood about the shaft last night
begging for chance to 90 in with the
rescue parties.
Frantic Women and Children.
With the Cherry. Ill.,. disaster still
fresh in their minds. women sed children
surged against the ropes drawn to keep
them away from the shaft and begged
the rescuers to bring back their husbands
and fathers. Some of the women at
to join the workers below and
had to be restrained by force. AS each
body was brought to the surface the
and prayers. but the bodies were -