The Sentinel=record., 1911-12-12
FIVE MINERS
 FOUND ALIVE
REscUERs IN CROSS MOUNTAIN MINE FIND LIVING MEN IN THE
 MAIN ENTRANCE.
Leads to Hope That at Least a Few of the Imprisoned Miners May Yet Be Living-Strlcken Fam
 files Are Dazed.

Knoxville. Tenn, Dec. 11.-Five miners found alive in Cross Noun tain mine.
 News of the five miners alive was telephone to Knoxville by Pres ident T. l. Stephenson of the Knox vile Iron Company, which owas the cross Mountain mine The men were found in the maia entry. President Stephenson is hopeful that others wiL be found alive within few hours.
 Stricken Families Dazed.
 Briceyiiie, Tenn. Dec. ii.-Nia. Coal Creek k)-Families of the one hundred or more miners entombed in Cross Mountain mine today began 10 realize that there was little or no chance of their ever seeing their ones alive again
 At nighttall 22 bodies had been re covered and more than twenty cross entries to the mins remained to be SAplOlcu. VIII bS NdsS dlk of the entries are penetrated.
 A day more gloomy or more in keeping with the fe<Iings of the sur viying inhabitants of this stricken village would be difficult to imagine. A cold ran began falli1g just be- fore daFbreak and conunued until late in the afternoon, converting the roads which comprise the streets of Bricevilie into mud puddies. From the little shacks ia which the miners live came waiIing sounds from wo- men and children thereby adding to the general gloom. For the most part the women remained in their homes, but few stood in the rain outside the mine entrance waiting for then dead to be brought forth.
 Tine rescue work has gone relent- lessly on since the explosion occur red early Saturday morning. Dr. J. A. Holmes, head of the Uaiteo States Bureau of Mines, took person al charge of the activities of the gov. ernment today and directed his men into the nnexplored recesses. Wear ing oxygen helmets they were able 10 penetrate to corners il which the miners themselves dared not venture for fear of the dread after damp. They worked as rapidly as possible, leay- ing the miners to take out their dead comrades while they searched for any who might be living.
 Practically all of the men who are believed to have perished sare Amer jeans. born aad reared in this val ley. Many women have been depriy- ed not only of their husbands but al- so of brothers and some of sons. The stricken ones seem to have cried themselves out and they seem to be in sort of daze. unable to fully real ize the extent of their loss
 A newly made graveSard was made today at Laurel Branch near here to take care of the Cross Mountain dead. The graves are being dug in circle, the plan being to eyeatually erect a monument in the center in memory of the explosion victims.
 Volunteers were. called for today to perform the sexton's task and twelve responded. All afternoon they could be seen plying pick and shovel on the mountain side under an i'm provished shed to protect them from the rain
 There was not enough work for the dertakers corps to do a1d, clad in oil cloth aprons they presented a grue- some sight as they stood about the mine waiting for bodies to be brought ffofttii. ffoftt
 Many are the theories being ad- vanced as 10 the cause of the acci- dent. President Stephenson, of the Knoxville Ircn Company which owns the mine, said today it probsbly would he caused by s.windy shot' which is a sort of flare back of powder inserted in a hole bored in the coal to be dislodged This powder might have ignited gases accumulated in one of the many rooms" in the mines.
 The floors are supposed to be swept and sprinkIed and MT. Stephnson said < they were In proof of which he re- piled to statement of one of the first rescuers on the scene that they had used some of the dust as putty