Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-23
REScUE:RS NEARING
zoo MEN BURIED IN
NEW MEXICO MINE
Hope for Victims of Explosion
Fades as Rescuers Work
Night and Day.
CAUSE OF BLAST WHICH
WRECKED SHAFT UNKNOWN
Fourteen BUGdlies Of Victims .Fe-
covered by Diggers Dur
il-@ the Night.

DAWSON, Y. NJ, Oct. 23.-What is
the fate of approximately 200 men
remaining in the workings of No.
Stag Canon mine, who with AZ known
dead and % rescued alive were en-
tombcd by "a terrific explosion ut
O'Clock Yesterday morning? This was
the question on the lips of hundreds
of mothers. wives and children to-
day as they pressed the line of
guards thrown about the mouth of
the mine. This was the unconscious
incentive that spurred hundreds of
volunteer rescuers in an endeavor to
penetrate workings strewn with
debris and filed with poisonous
gases
Clearly the hopefulness that per-
vaded the camp Immediately follow
ing the explosion and throughout the
night had given way today to evil
dences of doubt.
Fail to Find Men.
"When we reach the airshaft we
will find many men safe was the
hope voiced throughout the night.
Three men alive and only partly con-
scious. and three bodies, was the
reward when the airshaft finally was
reached today. However, mine Off
cials still insisted that others would
be found alive.
So absorbed we're the officials In the
work of rescue that no check had
been made on the number of men IN
the mine at the hour of the disaster,
and il seemed certain that at least
$50, perhaps more, were entombed.
During the morning scores or eXpe-
rienced miners from the Colorado
fields continued to reach camp, and
fresh squads were sent into the
workings as their predecessors
emerged exhausted.
Shortly before II O'Clock it was
announced that 25 more bodies had
been located. but several hours must
elapse before they can be brought to
the surface.
six bodies have been identified at
II o'clock, including two Americans
d, Arthur English and Walter john
san.-
Tourteen l,edies We're recovered
j.. sit. The twenty third
f4Ie disaster WAS
fsalu az the deean of mile in he
workings and taken out unconscious
1T $50 this morning.
Indications early were that the first
aid corps, working under the direction
of j. b. Morrow, would reach the ma
iority of the day shift. which was
caught in the cavern. some time to-
day.
Deoend ON Fans to Save Men.
Hope was strong that the great
fans which have been driven all night
would have diluted the gas SO that
the trapped men might be found
alive.
( Opinions as to the cause of the ex
that black damp ignited and ex-
ploded. Later 1t developed that at
this time of year the mines in the
adjacent southern district of Colo
rado become dangerous from the
prevalence of coal dust, which no
amount of water seems able to keep
under control and led to the belief
that the same condition might have
caused the disaster here.
Rcscuers Mt Fourteenth Level.
During the all-night fight with the
debris the rescuers penetrated to the
fourteenth level about a mile into the
side of Black mountain, and they
We're yet far from the more than 200
remaining victims. Twenty-Five men
We're rescued before daylight along
the levels in ones and twos and could
only point the way onward to the
depths for the rescuerS to go on.
DIR. James Douglas, of Douglas,
Ariz., general manager of Phelps
Dodge & Co, of New York, owners
of the mine, is reported from Ell Paso.
Tex, to be coming here on a special
train with a corps of physicians.
The Stag Canon mine was consid-
cred a model of coal mine engineer
ing and the disaster that befell it yes
terday has staggered this town of
| bR aytn Of
Italian miners.
The news of the explosion gathered
most of the settlers and ranchers
within fifty miles, and when morning
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