Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-02-08
OUTSIDE REPORTS CONCERNING
NEW MINE ACCIDENT IN PENN.
sYLVANlA, GIVES NUMBER OF
ENToMRED MEN AS THIRTY.
BODY RECOVERED
AT CHERRY MINE
YOUNG ITALIANS REMAINS ARE
FOUND NEAR SHAFT IN SECOND
VEIN AT CHERRY; WOMEN
WEEP AS REscUERs WORK.

Indiana, Pa, Feb. 5.-An explosion
caused, it is reported, by dynamite,
tore the timbers bracing to pieces and
buried twelve men alive on the lower
level of mine No. 2 at Ernest. five
miles north of here today. Several
men were taken from the mine, burned
and injured. The Rescue parties have
failed to reach the entombed men.
Outside reports say that thirty men
are yet entombed in the mine. a
rescue party headed by the state mine
inspectors entered the mine at 10
o'clock and at 2 o'clock had not yet
been heard from. Fear for their safety
Is expressed. The mine ordinarily has
day shift of 10 of which number it
is said only dozen more or less were
working where the explosion occurred.
1t is said the men still entombed in
the mine are undoubtedly dead Els
Inmates of the number of entombe6
men vary from twenty to twelve
Survey Officials Leave.
Pittsburg, Feb. 5.-Three engineers
of the local geological survey station
left this afternoon for the Ernest
mine explosion. Conflicting reports of
the extent of the disaster reached the
survey station eliminating in the de-
spatch of engineers, and safety APP
planes to Indiana.
Body Recovered at Cherry.
Cherry ILL.,, Feb. 5.-A hun
dred women wept yesterday
when the body of one dead miner was
holsted from the depths of the ill fated
Cherry mine and carted away to sta.
Bile that had been impressed as tenn.
porary morgue.
The body recovered was that OF
Maestro Lilrio, a young Italian who
died in the flame-swept second vein
of the mine while trying to reach the
main shaft. Lilrio was 25 years old
and unmarried, and is said to have
relatives at Cardiff, Ill. He was en-.
ployed in the third vein of the mine
and was one of the last to reach the
second level by way of the air shaft.
At the second vein he was met, by a
swirl of smoke and fire and was SUI.
located within few feet of the air
shaft. His body was found lying face
downward in the mud.
The mine officials, thinking to pre-.
vent general excitement among the
people, attempted to remove the body
in secret. But the desolate widows of
the village seemed intuitively to know
what move was on foot and many of
them were lowering about the mouth
of the airshaft when the body was
brought out.
A first search of Lildios clothing dis.
closed memorandum book and a.
match. Eager eyes examined these
things and several women declared
each her belief that the body was that
of her husband. 1t required second
search of the clothing to discover evi-
dence that fixed the identity of the
dead miner.
Work Goes on With Viaor.
Heavy shifts of men are working
night and day, but the progress is
slow, for heavy falls of rock are being
encountered at every turn and the
roofs of the passageways must be
made safe with new timbers at every
forward step. 1t is now a matter OF
days when the other bodies will be
reached. Probably the bodies in the
third vein will be recovered first, for
today the work of pumping the water
from this deepest portion of the mine
began.