The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-24
AL ARE LOST IN MINE
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at 10 o'clock had not been heard from
for three hours. It is not known
whether he has persisted.
The number Of men rescued alive
still stood at twenty-six at 10 o'clock.
Forty-two bodies had been taken out
and 1t was estimated that 200 had
persisted, including the two rescuers
who died this morning.
The dead will be buried together
this afternoon-if enough collins can
be had.
Collins are coming from Denver,
Las Vegas, 81 Paso, from Trinidad
and other points.
In box cars, on fiat cars and even
In baggage cars of the trans-contin-
entail flyers they are coming. The COT
fin supply for several weeks Of Colo
RADIO, New Mexico and western Texas
is to be used, all at once in Dawson.
Embalmers from distant points are
Fastening here. Shrouds and en-
balming fluids are at premium.
The air in the mine is very bad and
/ fears are felt for 12o rescuers in the
inner passages. Despite the fact that
all wear oxygen helmets, majority
LOT those who emerged from the shaft
during the morning were sickened. All
reported conditions desperate and
coal dust thick, threatening new ex-
a plosion to add to the horrors already
endured.
| The work of opening and timbering
the high line entry''-the main en-
try Of No. shafts being pushed.
:. The interior is badly wrecked and
, progress very slow.
Groups Of women and children gath.
j cred at the pit mouth at daylight to
| day eagerly ching for the appear
! ance OF rescuers with corpses. They
are being kept back by ropes. The
: explosion must have been more severe
4 than had been thought. The tops o.
Al several mems heads were blown off.
n The Dead Mans Hour.
eli [By q Staff Correspo Of tn
4 United Press.1
DAWSON. M M, Oct. 24.-Ther
9 are more dead men than live men Il
! this mining camp. / was In Colorad
q trying to find out about the strike o
: coal miners there, when thfs explosion
took place that killed probably 25
men. A few hours afterward wa
g here among the horrors. Back there /
g the tented camps Of the strikers, tn
II evil suffered by the miners may hay
s seemed vague. Here they are as req
e as death.
E 1t wasn't time to worry about tn
g dead when first arrived on tn
scene. Squads of helmeted rescuer
1t were dashing into the mine anon
e. blackened corpses in a desperat
t. search for the living They knew won
L. en- and children were clustered at tn
at mouths of the pits hoping for Twin
d husbands and daddys and not roaste
IT corpses. When they came from tn
r mine the sooted, would-be rescuel
I'd didn't tell of the corpses they ne
seen but they marched SILENT
re through crowds of women and Chi
Il dren. Wives, and even tiny boys an
girls, tried in vain to read the story
n, their future years through the grin
1el on the faces of the men who had bee
nj down among the terors.
P. But at lest came the dead man
k time. There were dead in camp wa
iy ons. automobiles and stretchers, des
J. men lying on the ground and des
men in tiny coal cars. There were
many of these figures In overalls al
H. hob nailed shoes, black caps al
re black faces, that ones pity began
20 grow weok and one began to think
tn them not as men but as mere Dundl
y. of something all alike.
ne But they were not all alike. A VOL
d. an shrieking and children around n
lis crying. and at their feet bundle
N, something daddy" It had on
he been man who had tried to make o.
OH woman and some little children hapr
nd There were the overalls she HI
err washed. She knew them. There we
air the hob naild shoes whose tread on t
porch had meant that daddy's da,
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