Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-12
flNE MEN BROUGHT 70 SURFACE
UNNAMED AND SEVERAL 9TH.
FRS PROBABLY SURVIVE.
5RGscuERs FIND MESSAGES
WRITrEN ON WALLS IN CHALK
asl;sf. Parties Making Effort to Psns.
traste Latsrais Whore Survivors Took
Rsfuss-Tetai Of Thirty Bodies Re.
ssvsrsd Only Few dsntifisd-TeI.
ssraphie News.

vivors Of Saturdays explosion in the
Cross Mountain coal mine. fresh res
cue squads went into the Cross Noun
tain entries this morning digging with
redoubled energy. Their only reward
however was the discovery Of q corpse
strewn chamber far back in the mine.
y Six bodies were recovered. Two of
the six were identified. One was Jo-
sephsMcoueen, q widower. The other,
Tate, Valladee. had q wife and four
children.
.s., Five Found Alive.
Five miners alive and well were
taken from the Cross Mountain mine
last night. Tho prisoners In what had
been expected to be the tomb Of more
than 100 men. since Saturday morn
ing. they seemed little the worse for
their experience.
They are all married and their
wives had almost given up hope OF
ever seeing any Of them alive.
Immediately after the explosion they
rushed to cross entry No. 19. where
they quickly threw up a brattice that
Kept out the black damp that killed
d any OF their fellow workmen. They
took their lunch pals with them and
the ave subsisted for three days and
= two nights on what they expected to
make their Saturday noon meal.
News that live miners had been
found spread quickly thru the town
and relatives Of other men who had
been standing vigil at the mines
mouth until their hopes vanished had
rushed again to the scene. Until last
night twenty-five bodies had been re-.
moved. and all but twenty-five cross
entries had been explored. The res
cuers; are encountering great obsta-
cles IN penetrating the cross sections
ana 1t IL feared that even should more
10 aiive In the far recesses of the
vporiings. It will be impossible to reach
them before they starve. Another res
cue car arrived from Pittsburgh yes
terll6y 30 there are plenty Of helmet
men on the scene. Workmen now are
pushing ahead with all possible speed
hoping to find more men alive.
Additional Signs Of Life.
" Additional signs Of life were discov
cred In the Cross Mountain mine at II
4 o'clock On the walls Of the shaft were
found inscribed these words:
1--WE have gone to 23."
Immediately the rescue squad re-
doubled their efforts to reach cross sec
ton No. % Of the mine. 1t is believed
several Of the blasts victims will be
found there.
] rhe rescue party penetrated into
cross entry No. %. No miners were
found there but additional directions
for. their rescue were found scrawled in
chalk on the walls. The men evidently
were compelled to change their vantage
poii,t on account Of the altering condi-
tions. The rescue squad pressed on in
the direction indicated by the chalk
marks.
AZ noon . total of thirty bodies had
been removed.
Two of Reeued Men insane.
Stricken mad probably from fear in
sbired by their plight, two miners. who
had been with the party rescued last
night are now dashing wildly in and
out Of channels In the Tar recesses of
! \ tie tie mine. ~ y ~.
Hsniglit rescuers chased the maniacs
mt they eluded their pursuers running
down the main entry and scampering
away into black recesses of the mine.
They axs believed to be John Duff and
John Smith.