The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-10-24

the Fan Ventilating System - Red
Gross to Relieve Victims Families.
DAWSON, \. NJ, Oct. 81. = Two
HUNDRED aud forty-seven miners are
believed to be dead beneath tons of
fallen earth timber, coal and roc Ks in
the cuts and rooms of Stag CANYON
mine No. > of the Stag CANYON Fuel
Go. Hundreds Of miners working in
shifts Of - each are slowly forcing
their way through the rooms and en- /.
tres, lighting against dangers of gas
and fire, which started in an adioin-
ing mine and which threatens to reach
the space in which the entombed men
Were trapped. Only % men have been
taken from the mine alive. At els |
/ last night the first miner to be rescued
alive within - hours was taken from
4 the main entry. He was found uncon-
scious near mule which earlier in the
evening had been found alive. Thirty
eight dead, % rescued. make up the \,
total of the day ; work of recovery
Henry p. McShane. son of Mrs f.
4 +. NcShane Of New York city. widow
Of a former heavy tockholder in the
mine, is among the known dead. Me
Shane, who was but 10 years old.
had come to the mine in which his
father estate still held an interest
in order to learn mining from practi- /
cal experience. i. G.. Roberts, chief of 4
the United States mine rescue bureau I
in the district, is i'm charge of the res /
cue work Mr. Roberts said it was i'm /
possible to tell what occasioned the 4
explosion, but that it was of such VIC /
lenee as TO cause him to lose hope for
the rescue of any more victims. in the
off,
PSI miners and that the death list will
reach so great Il figure is attributed to
the fact that the great fans which
kept the air circulating within the
mine were rendered useless by the force
of the explosion. Not until four hours
after the explosion were the fans re
paired.
Or. 5. P. Morris, representative of
the district of the American Red Cross
society, reached Dawson at noon and
lat once made preparations to relieve
the families of the victims. Director
General Ernest P. Bicknell Of the Rod
Cross society in Washington wired
!. GOV. Mcdonald to draw on the society
. for / 600 with which to alleviate the
3 suffering of miners families, but Gov.
! Mcdonald replied that the mine OIL
4 cials had given him assurances that the
destitute would be provided for, and
Z that the company would defray eX-
4 penses of all funerals. Orders ON the
Z company store for an indefinite length
3 of time have been issued to the fam
\ lies of the entomhed miners.
y The mine was supposed to have been
model one and that such Il disaster
4 could befall the men within it had
I been considered impossible. Only two
days before the explosion State Mine
d Inspector Biddow had examined the
n property and pronounced it in excellent
& condition. General Manager T. IT,
d O 'Brien, who was in the Office near
& mine No. Mt the time of the eNplo-
4 sion, at once summoned the men from
I three other mines by means of the mine
j siren and put them to work digging
4 into the main entry and the manway.
Il both of which We're blocked by tons of
Z fallen rock and timber lie with other
y officials hastily went to the airshaft.
I which is supplied with ladder ana
Q steps designed to be used as n means
of escape i'm just such emergencies.
4 There he found the air unbearable AMI
I knew the great fans had stopped. With
3 oxygen helmets he and. his followers
q went into mine No. > connected with
- No. > by a tunnel. believing they
could connect with the lateras OF the
. ! wrecked mine, but they found the
passage blocked. Communication was
Y established with nearby mines aud AL
the assistance available was obtained
Striking miners and coal oncrators
emhroiled for month in a labor WI
nj T5inidad. Col. Yesterday Joined j.
4 efforts to rescue the miners entomheC
At Dawson. Seventeen strikers from
Trinidad and Starkvile, who hefo~'
the strike were members Of first ai'
and hamlet teams, volunteered for re-
i enc work at Dawson. and under h,
4 leadership of the superiutcndept Of o0
z Of tho mines against which the strik
is being conducted, departed for B1w
4 son late yesterday.
1t was reported last night that ,
I more bodies had hecn found. No othc
live miners have been rescued. Of III
z - mon rescued alive, the created mum
4 her we're seriously injured. Manv ha
i been friehtfulIy maneled By explosion
z Nearly all were sickened by the poiso
gases they had inhaled.