The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-10-24
247 MINERS BELIEVED DEAD BENEATH
TONS OF ROCK And EARTH AT DAWSON
TWENTY-THREE MEN RES
CUED AND THIRTY EIGHT
BODIES RECOVERED.
Conditions in Mine Cause Res
cuers to Practically Give Up
HOpe-Caring for Destitute.

DAWSON. y. NJ. oct 23-Two
hundred and forty-seven miners are
believed 70 be dead tonight beneath
tons OF fallen earth. timber. cCal and
rocks in the cut and rooms Of the
Stag Canon mine No. >. OF the Stag
Canon Fuel company here. Hundreds
of miners. working IN shifts OF IF
teen each. are slowly forcing their
way through the rooms and entries.
hghting against dangers OF gas and
a fire which started in an adjoining
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 6.15 tonight the
first miner to he rescued alive with
in II hours was taken from the main
entry lie was found unconscious
near mule which earlier in the
evening had been found alive.
Thirty-eight dead. % rescued.
make up the total OF the days work
OF recovery. The finding OF the live
mule in the mine to-day encouraged
officials in charge OF the rescue
work 10 hope that some live miners
perhaps are still entombed in room
bhNA'l ulNIf IlsIIl lODT luONEdlA ltfNN
from an entrance Henry T. McShane.
son OF Mrs. +. T. McShane of New
York city. widow of a former heavy
stoCkholder in Oh" mine. Is among
The known dead. McShane. who was
but l9 years Of age. had come 70
The mine. i'm which his fathers estate
still held an interest. TO learn mining
from practical experience
J. G. Roberts. chief Of the United
States mine rescue bureau In this
district, is in charge Of the rescu.
work. Mr. Roberts said 10 was i'm
possible 10 tell what ocCasioned the
explosion. but that it was OF such
violence as tc cause him 20 lose hope
lCr the rescue OF any more victims.
Explosion Wrecked Fans.
In the mine az the time of the eN-
ilosion were 2Si miners and that the
death list will reach 80 great figure
DIS attributed TO the fact that the great
;ans which kept the air circulating
n IN" mine We're rendered useless ~
The force Of the explosion Not until
iour hours after the explosion were
the fans repaired
some of tho rescue parties tonight
declared 10 their belief that party
va 'AA 'Nl'lAN|A lAlN -Ir ndQ TFaf utaQ
% room and had sealed IL In time TO
keep the gas rom overcoming them
Or. :. +. Morris. representative Of
this district OF the American Red
Cross society. reached % re- 90 noon
and al once made prepare ions 10 re-
neve the families o. tho victims
Director General Ernest p RiCk.
nell Of the Red Gro society in Wash.
iuSton. wired Governor Mcdonald 10
draw on the societ- for 81 900 with
which 20 alleviate The suffering OF
miners families ho~a. but Governor
Mcdonald replied chat The mine o..
h'ials had given h.'a assurance that
the destitute wou'I o.. provided for
and that the company would dcfrat
expenses Of al funerals. order. on
the company store for an indefinite
length ~ time have been issued fo
he families af thr ont0mbed miners.
Was 2 Model Mine.
The mine was supposed to be- a
model one. and that such disaster
could h"iall rho men within Do had
been considered imI1 ible Only two
days before tho explosion state Mine
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