Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-24
Only B Miners
 are Found Alive
BELIEF THAT PAY ARE DEAD IN
 THE MINE
BODIES OF IA FOUND
Fears That Those at Greatest Distance From Entrance Vii suocumb to Gas Aid For Destitute Families.

Dawson, N. M, Oct. 23.-TwO hun dred and forty seven miners are be- lieYed to be dead tonight beneath tons of fallen earth. timber, coal and rocks in the cuts and rooms of Stag Canon mine No. , of the Stag Canon Fuel company here. Hundreds of miners, working in shifts of fifteen each, are slowly forcing their way through the dangers Of gas and fire which started in an adjoining mine and which threatens to reach the space in which the entombed men were trapped. Twenty three Found Alive.
 Only twenty three men have been taken from the mine alive. At 6.15 tonight the first miner to be rescued alive within twelve hours was taken from the main entry. He was found unconscious near a mule which earlier in the evening had been found alive
 Fourteen dead. twenty three rescued make up the total of the days work of recovery. The finding of the live mule in the mine late today encour- aged officials in charge of the rescue work to hope that some live miners, perhaps, are still ent0mbed in d room located more than 4,000 feet from an entrance.
 Son of StockhoIder Dead.
 Henry P, AIcShaw. son of Mrs. E. P A1cShaW, of New oYrk city, widow of former heavy stockholder in the mine, is among the known dead. Nc Shaw who was but 19 years of age, had come to the mine, in which his fathers estate still held an interest. in order to learn mining from practical experience.
 J. c. Roberts, chief of the United States mine rescue bureau in this dis trict, said it was impossible to tell what occasioned the explosion, ,buS that it was of such violence asT To cause him to lose hope for the rescue of any more victims In the mine at the time of the explosion were 2S4 miners and that the death list will reach so great a figure is attributed to the fact that the great fans which kept the air cir culating within the mine were ren- dered useless by the force of the ex- plosIon.
 Providing for the Destitute.
 Some of the rescue parties tonight declared it their belief that party of the entonbed miners had reached a room and had sealed it in time to keep the gas from overcoming them.
 Dr. S P. Morris, representative of this district of the American Red Cross society, reached here at noon and at once made preparations to relieve the families of the victims, Director Gen eraI Ernest P. ByekneI of the Red Cross society in Washington wired Governor Mcdonald to draw on the society for $1,000 with which to alIevi- ate the suffering of miners families here, but Governor Mcdonald replied that the mine officials had given him assurance that the destitute would be provided for and that the company would defray expenses of all funerals
 Mine Was Model One.
 Orders on the company store for an indefinite length of time have been is- sued to the families of the entombed miners
 The mine was supposed to have been a model one, and that such a disaster could befall the men within it had days before the explosion State Mine Inspector Biddow had examined the property and pronounced it in excel lent condition.