Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06
ST. PAUL NINE YIELDS DEAD
One Body is Taken from Workings
at Cherry.
1T Is EASILY IDENTIFIED
Mining Town is Much Excited over
Prospect of Recovery of Other
COrpses-Much Work still
to BE Done.
IT IS EASILY
IDENTIFIED

CHERRY, Ill, Feb. 5.-The ST. Paul mine
yesterday yielded the first of its dead since
last November, when the snarts were sealed
to extinguish the fire that killed nearly
300 miners. AS a result, Cherry is all ex-
citement over the prospects of recovering
other bodies, The body was that of Macs
tro Llirio, Is years old. He was identified
by a wage receipt found in his coat.
Llirio was unmarried and has relatives at
Cardiff, Ill.
The body was in good condition in spite
of its three months entombment in the
gaseous chambers Of the mine, $50 feet
below the surface.
Although rumors had circulated through
out Cherry that a body was about to be
removed, not more than thirty men, in
GLIDING five deputy sheriffs, were about
the air shaft when the body was hoisted
to the top. Three women stood some dis
lance from the fan house, quietly watching
the proceedings.
AS the body was brought to the surface
the three women spectators and one old
man, who has two sons buried in the mine,
wept. There was no other demonstration.
Sisters of Charity arrived to care for any
one suffering of hysteria, but they were
not needed.
Body is Identified.
The body was placed in a mule stall in
the mine stable. In the miners pockets
were found a note BOOK full of figures and
Unfolding a short pencil, a cheap watch
which had stopped at 5:15 o'clock. When
wound the watch began to run as we'll as
ever.
Nearly every one at the mine when the
body was recovered thought the body was
that of some one he or she had known
and scores Of id-entifications were made
positively by the watch and clothing. The
pay check, however, showed, according to
the mine company's books, that the man
was Llirio.
AS news of the removal of the body
spread through Cherry women filled the
streets crying and talking excitedly, but
the outburst was short-lived.
The prospects for recovery of other
bodies is none too promising. To get at
the fifty-two bodies said to be in the bot
tom level, 100000 gallons Of water must
be pumped out and to reach the iS5 bodies
in the east part of the second level, a new
passage way must be cut through a solid
coal vein for at least 40 feet. Pumping and
tunneling will begin tomorrow.
Mine experts Webb and Williams of the
University OF Illinois leIt To-Day. IL IL saiu
the fire is now shut up safely in the east
slde of the mine.
Manager w. w. Taylor Of the st. Pau
Coal company went to Chicago tonight to
try 10 settle the strike at the Granville. III.
mine.
No More Battle-Ground.
PRIMERO, Colo. Feb. 4.-No more bodies
have been added to the total of fifty-one
recovered from the Colorado Fuel and Iron
company's mine. although large rescuins
parties worked all day.
Tonight it is said that a body has beer
found, but that a passage has not beer
sufficiently cleared TO permit bringing II
out.
Twelve bodies were buried at Trinidad
today, five being placed in a grave marked
Unknown" five other bodies are In the
Trinidad morgue. one has not been identi-
fled. They will be buried tomorrow.
state mine inspector Jones is looking fol
the point where the explosion occurred In
order to determine IL possible. what caused
the disaster.