The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-24
AL ARE LOST IN MINE
WHERE HOPE FEARS TOENTER.

at 10 o'clock had not been heard from
for three hours. It is not known
he has perished.
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 260 had
perished, including the two rescuers
who died this morning.
The dead will be buried together
this afternoon-if enough collins can
be had.
Cofins are coming from Denver.
Las Vegas, FL 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 cof-
fln 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 a 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
OF those who emerged from the shaft
during the morning were sickened. All
reported conditions desperate and
coal dust thick, threatening a new ex.
plosion to add to the horrors already
endured.
The work of opening and timbering
the high line entry"-the main en-
TRY of No. 2 shafts being pushed
The interior is badly wrecked and
progress very slow.
Groups OF women and children gath
cred at the pi4 mouth at daylight to
day eagerly ching for the appear
ance OF rescuers with corpses. The,
are being kept back by ropes. Th'
explosion must have been more sever
than had been thought. The tops 0
.sseyeral mems heads were blown Off {
4 The Dead Mans Hour.
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j IBy Staff Correspondent Of tb
United Press.l
DAWSON, N. NJ, oct. Ther
4 are more dead men than live men ]
Il this mining camp. l was In Colorad
trying to find out about the strike {
: coal miners there, when THIS explosio
took place that killed probah.y 25
men. A few hours afterward l wa
} here among the horrors. Back there i
) the tented camps of the strikers, th
{ evil suffered by the miners may hav
) seemed vague. Here they are as re;
: as death.
: 1t wasn't time to worry about til
: : dead wnen first arrived on tt
scene Squads OF helmeted rescuel
t were dashing into the mine anon
J. blackened corpses in despera1
: search for the living. They knew wor
/ en- and children were clustered at tt
t mouths of the pits hoping for livir
/ husbands and daddys and not roaste
r corpses. When they came from I'll
: mine the sooted, wouid-be rescue
d didn't tell Of the corpses they he
seen but they marched silent
3 through crowds of women and CHI
l. dren. Wives, and even tiny boys ar
girls, tried in vain to read the story
L.. their future years through the grin
q on the faces of the men who had bet
l. down among the terors.
l =.
?. But at lnst came the dead man
< time. There were dead in camp wa
y ons, automobiles and stretchers, de;
men lying on the ground and de;
/. men in tiny coal cars. There We're
many of these figures in overalls al
l. hob nailed shoes, black caps al
q black faces, that ones pity began
q grow weok and one began to think
h them not as men but as mere bundl
V. of something-all alike.
le But they were not all alike. A wol
d. an shrieking and children around h
is crying, and at their feet a bundle
n, something-"d daddy" It had on
.e been a man who had tried to make o
III woman and some little children hapI
i'd There were the overalls she h
r. washed. She knew them. There we
ir the hob naild shoes whose tread on t
porch had meant that daddy's da,
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