The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-04

cuers entered All men with expcri- ence at such catastropnes know the
 folly of haste: they have also learned
 that few trained rescaers cannot possibly save more than loo entomh. ed men from death unless they have the assistance of voluntec. Carry. ing their apparatus in their hands. the rescuers entered with volunteers. having with them a canary bird in a cage. Everybody watched for th canary for it is known that as lon2 as the bisd is able to sit upon hi: perch, there is no danger to the men from gas poisoning. the canary be-. ing much more sensitive to gas than men They proceeded until the bird began to show signs of distress. and at this point the volunteers without breathing apparatus r1 eated unU they were in safe atmosphere, the trained rescuers putting on their a2. paratus and pressing forward
 The rescuers made three different crews one of them exploring the mine the second remaining at the base with the volunteers to be ready for an emergency and the third crew being put 10 bed in order to he able 10 relieve the first crew, as the men nearing the arificia! breathing appa ratus can work but two hours at a time This work proceeded night and day, 2l hours until Saturday morn ing, the sescuers wearing the oxygen greathing apparatus in advance uc tle volunteers without apparatus. The continued exploration by the trained rescuers at that time develop ed that the main entry had litte wreckage and was in fairly good con ditiou This led Chief State Inspect or Henry to order the reversal of the air current to permit the use of this entry It was at this point that five against James w. Paul, the head of the Bureau of Mines rescue sarvica. who was but a snort distance in the mine at the time. The five men were . that after the explosion they had walled themselves in with the idea of keeping the poisonous gases from reaching them As soon as the air had cleared through tae efforts of the rescuers in bringing fresh air up to where they had bareicaded them. selves, they made their way out. The men told Paul that no others were alive in that part Of the mine. but the work of the rescuers was ro~ doubled.
 One or the oxygenrescne crews comnosed Of Bureau of Mines men and trained miners from Gary, w. Vo proceeded for more than a mile with their apparatus under orders from Paul. They were headed by Govern ment Rescuer W. J German, MT Pau gave orders to take my crew straight 10 ten left, ," says German,
 when we reached there we found a note in the main entry which read:
 Forty-two men alive in ten left, March g. 1915. at i:30 pm. After reading the note we advanced about 250 feet until we found a tight stone stopping This proved to us that the men mad gratticed themselves in be- hind it. I sent member of the crew back to MT. Paul asking him to send stretcher crews and blankets When they returned with the state inspcc,- or, we had torn down the stone stop. ping and had advanced up the entry about 200 feet further until We found a second stone stopping and could hear the entimbed men inside Wh han we had a hole through the second stopping about two feet square, In- spector Holiday and two of his party crawled through followed by myself We saw two open lights burning back in these entry, and at once called that these lights be eXtinguished The miners were now crawling down to- ward the opening in the stopping. ] ordered them to stay back and crawled through so that cou.d help them through one at time, with the
 assistance of my five apparatus men. whom | ordered to continue working at tearing down the stopping in or der to make the hole larger l saw that the air had cleared quite con
 siderable and helped the men througi the hole and ordered each man to sit down close to the left rib. Each man obeyed orders and acted like child After the last man had come out, counted the line of men which mum
 bered fo?ty-two. l then had all these men take hold ot hands and placed by crew and Holidays at intervals along the line to show the men light l placed one of the Gary men and one of the inspectors crew at the end of the line and told the last man
 to follow them to the surface. l then went to the front of the line and ad- yanced as quickly as possible to get stretcher crews organized to carry out the men that were becoming too weak to walk. l was very sick at
 the mine from the gas but waited at the pit mouth until the last man had reached the surface
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