The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-12-13
THIRTY BODIES,
FIVE LIVE MEN
TAKEN FROM MINE
CRAZED SURVIVORS OF MINE
HORROR RUN WILD THROUGH
UNDERGROUND PASSAGE.
Rescuers are Still at Work, But are
Making Slow Progress-Men Taken
from Mine Tell Horrible Tale of the
Disaster.

Briceville, Tenn, Dec. II. - Seven
additional bodies were brought ont of
Cross Mountain mine this morning,
making total of thirty dead now re-
covered. The names of these dead
are:
Monroe Vandergriff, aged 25 years.
Leaves widow.
Clarence Hill, 19; single.
Michael NARROW, %; single.
Charles Whited, %; leaves widow.
Z. F. Tohmas, As; master mechanic.
Leaves widow and adopted child.
Joseph Mcqueen, widower.
Tate Vallalee, 80. Leaves widow and
four children.
The bodies We're found near side
track No. 3. They are in a badly oe-
composed condition, and prompt bur-
lal is necessary.
Government and state officials this
morning entered the mine on an ex-
ploring trip. They expect to go into
every cross entry. The party was
headed by DR.. ]. A. Holmes, chief of
the bureau of mines. They were ac-
| companled by twelve men.
May Rescue Many Alive.
DIR. Holmes made the following
statement this morning before enter
ing the mine, which is the first given
out by him:
Upon the high intelligence of the
cross Mountain miners, | base my
hopes of recovering many of the men
alive
Officials going into the mine have
mad much trouble in keeping relatives
of imprisoned men from entering with
them. Some are frantic over the tra-
glc misfortune of relatives, and many
nave threatened to tear up the mines
II not allowed to enter and engage
IN the hunt for friends and loved
ones. This morning the officials per-
mitted few miners to accompany
/ them. The finding of five men alive
last night has made the people more
anxious to scour every entry in the
hope of finding living men.
Ghastly Chase With Death.
A ghastly chase with DEATH" is
the description of an experience the
rescue party in the Cross Mountain
mine had last night and today ac-
cordlng to the statement of one OF
the members.
Two miners, thought to be John
Duff and John Smith, have been on
a Wild run in the farthest recesses
or the mine since II o'clock last
night, and at 8 O'Clock this morning
the rescue party had been unable to
capture them, despite the fact they
had been on their trail several hours.
The men have been running fran
tlcaly up and down the main chan
mel, now and then entering cross-en-
tries that have not been bratticed
up, and thus they escape the RES
cuers. The stiffness of the dark re-
cesses is only broken by the wild
screams of the men who have ap-
parently lost mental control of them
selves and are wandering helplessly
in the channel, unable to find their
way to its exit. 1t is believed that
perhaps these are the men who es-
capped from the party headed by Will
liam Henderson that was rescued
last night.
Experts Hear Screams of Men.
When the government and state ex-
perts got into the mine this morning
accompanied by several local miners,
screams Of the two men who are
running amuck throughout the cavern
We're heard. The wailings were as
those of men bereft of reason, chained
in prison cells. Their cries were first
heard by the rescuing party last night
but all attempts to catch them were
futile. Efforts were renewed this
morning to corner the men that they
might be taken before they might end
their own lives or penetrate room
where there is foul air and gas, and
there suffocate.
John Duff, thought to be one of the
men, was the first to suggest to the
five men rescued last night, that they
better make heir escape from the
mine Saturday morning, as an explo-
sion had occurred. Since then he has
not been seen.
1t is thought that he and John
Smith, another member Of the force
employed in entry IS, ran to the fur
ther end Of the mine and became con-
fused in the dark. Realizing their
awful condition, they perhaps became
campaign.