El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-24
FINDS THREE MORE
BODIES IN MINE
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lngs under thelmetS Tor an hour ana
W Three More Bodies Found.
Between q and o'clock this morning
three additional bodies were recovered
and brought to the surface. No trace
/ had been found OF general superintend-
ent VIM. MGDermott nor Henry 2. Nc
| Shane, the " ealthy young New Yorker.
Rescue Car Arrives.
The first government rescue car
reached here. shortly after 8 o'clock this
morning. Ehe crews were hurriedly
| equipped with helmets and sent into
Stag canyon mine No. 2 N search of
helmetmen james Lurdi and VIM. Poisa.
The government rescuers started for
| the 18th chamber. east two and half
miles underground from the portal. It
was at this Roint that Lurdi and Poisa
with two companions were searching for
the bodies of general superintendent
| VIM. McDermott and perhaps at least 100
more miners, who were believed to have
| been in that part of the mine when
! Wednesdays explosion occurred.
Confidence Restored.
The accident TO the helmetmen caused
feeling of terror among Others to the
point where only volunteers were sent
] into the mine. sConfldence was some
what restored by the arrival of the gov
tered the workings.
After considera bic time underground
the crew had been unable to reach the
18th chamber.
Think No Move Men Alive.
Because of the increasing presence of
carbon dioXide gas in the mine, which
has permeated chambers where the air
was comparatively pure late last night,
the government TeseueFs, confident that
no more men are alive, have changed
their method of attack, and devoted their
entire energies to directing air currents
to drive out the poisonous gases.
Dead Probably Number 263.
The probable death list, with the fatal
accident to the two helmGtmen, was in
creased to 263 today and at noon the
number of men rescued aAive remained
at %.
Rescuers Keep Up work.
When the midnight shift of rescuers
was called out of mine mum Der 2, where
261 miners were probably Killed when
an explosion partially wrecked the
workings Wednesday, % mel had been
taken out alive and SO bOdi IS of the
dead had been recovered HUI ,dreds of
rescuers working under the direction
of J. c. Roberts, chief OF the United
states rescue department in this dis
trict, had recovered but one live miner,
in II hours, while the helmeted men
passed scores of bodies.
Abandon Hope for MeDermOft.
All hope for the rescue of general
mine superintendent McDermott has
been abandoned. The superintendent
was at work in one of the rooms far
removed from either of the main en-
frances Of the mine. and it is Ghought
! that in this section of the mine that
the greatest loss of life occurred.
Find Man Near Mule.
A mine mule was found alive several
thousand feet within the mine and with
IN Tr-fN in ha
rescuers that they might be able 10
ind some of the miners yet alive.
After an hours tedious search the p
miner TO have been rescued alive was
found, in a room near the mule but six
other miners who were in the room
with him had been killed almost in
stantly. The live miner. identified as
Jose Fernandez was unconscious when
found and the heroic use of a pulmotOr
was necessary to establish proper res
piration and even after several minutes
treatment he did not regain conscious
ness, though physicians say he will re-
cover completely.
1t is to him that the government ard
mine officials look for an "'-@lanetfon
of the explosion. 49,
Locate More Sod
The chamber beyond the one in which
Fernandez and his dead companions
were found has beeEi explored BY the
rescue. crews, but None but dead were
Fire. which LToke out in a closed
d, n
SlderaoIy IT. It's smOldering but had
not reached mine number 2, so far as
rescuers, definitely could ascertain.
Fans Rendered Useless.
IN the mine at the time of the ex-
ploShOn were 2S4 miners, and that the
death list VIII reach so great a figure
u attributed to the fact that the great
/1ans, which kept the air circulating
Dy the force of the explosion. permit
ing poisonous gases to permeate every
recess OF the mine. Not until four
hours after the explosion were the
fans repaired. It is stated by mine
officials that the safety doors. which
were supposed to protect the fans
forward against the fans instead o
debris
SuROeated by Gas.
Mr.. Roberts stated that many of the
dead IN the mine were suffocated BY the
gas which they were forced to breathe
because of the inactivity of the fans.
some some OF the rescue parties declared it
thelr belief that party of entOmbe.
miners mad reached a room and had
sealed it in time to keep the eases
from overcoming them. The finding of
a mule still alive in one of the cross
cuts of the mine has greatly encorr-
aged the men. who We're beginning IN |
snow that they were working AGAINST
nope. Inc work of rescue viii con-
tinue, undated. minute by minute nm
III All of the bodies within the mine
shall have been recovered. according to |
government officers in charge of the |
rescue work.
Debris Hampers Resources
The rescuers are unable to traverse |
a straight course through the lateral 4
entry, and are forced to make their |
way through devious twistings OF l
eross-entries to points where it was |
known miners were engaged at the I
time Of the explosion.
Getting to one room where it is be- /
neVed entombed miners still might be /
found alive, has proved most difficult |
task, as the rescuers must walk more /
than 5000 feet into the mine and then 4
dig away the debris within the two 4
short hours they have at their disposal |
until their supply of oxygen becomes /
exhausted and they are relieved by the /
next crew.
List of the Dead.
OF the men entombed 100 are Greeks.
100 Italians, 20 Slavs and Poles, and the |
remainder are of English speaking /
races. The list of identified dead fol- /
lows:
Ballou Marchetto, Fritz Sitko. B. Ula-
barrL James lindsay Arthur English, |
Walter Johnson, Juan TrujiIlo. Felix
Garcia, Ernest Monteria, Thomas Nc
Lennon. Frank Redrick, Frank Matt, |