Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-25

They brought with them the custo-
mary mary equipment of mine nine rescue appa, a.
charge of this division. ordered the
mine rescue car. with it's entire crew,
to hurry from Barnesboro. Pa. to
Cleveland with all possible speed.
There were six engineers in the party.
Mayor Davis and Chief of Police w.
S. Rowe went to the scene in a tug
early today
The construction job on which the
loss OF life occurred is being done by
the city with direct labor. 1t consists
in building tunnel from the water
works intake crib. known as crib No
5. to the new filtration plant being
built at West 5Sth street This tun-
mel will carry water to the filter plant,
now nearing completion, which will
inter the water supply of what is called
the west side" section of the city
Crib No. is five miles from shore
Ihe tunnel has been constructed be-
IS two and onehalf miles from shore
ihe section on which work is being
done is between cribs Nos and 5
flfteen hundred feet remain to be
completed. The men who were first
trapped were working LOO feet toward
the shore from crib No. 5. The lake
at CRIB is seventy feet. The tunnel
Is nfty feet under the bottom of the
lake and ten feet in diameter. An
elevator shaft leads from crib No. 5 to
Mayor Orders Investigation.
Mayor Davis issued a statement at
noon. in which he said:
The construction of the water works
tunnel was begun under the previous
administration. and the supervision has
oeen IN charge of men selected by that
administration. They have been sup
phed with all the equipment they have
asked for. 1 supposed they had all
they needed An investigation into the
entire disaster will start "Wednesday
with Law Director W. S. FITZGERALD in
charge This inquiry will 60 to the
,,,. po..om OF the affair and fix any re-
sponsioihty for the tragedy, and for
lack OF rescue apparatus. Meanwhiie
everything possible will be done TO
care FOR the families Of the victims"
Inc previous administration to which
the mayor referred was that headed bv
Newton D. Baker. now Secretarv Of
War Vi
In addition to the city probe, there
VIII be three Investigations Of the
hoIror-oy the federal. state and county
authorities. United States mine in
spectors telegraphed city officials TODAY
they would arrive tomorrow to conduct
an inquiry into the disaster. The state
industrial commission also sent word
.iinl IL "ouiu Send representatives here
Tor an inquiry, while Coroner p 7
byrne announced that his inquest into
the deaths of victims would take the
form OF county probe.
Dead and Injured.
The revised list dead and injured
follows:
Dead in morsue-Harry Hatcher. To-
ledo, secretary International Corn
pressed Air and Foundation Workers,
Union; John Mccormick. L. /. Rich
mond. c. NJ schwind. F. E. Reep. clar-
ence Welsh, Archie Turnbull. J. NJ
Wood. Louis Zappisolli, w. Yeoman.
one unidentified.
Dead in tunnel-Harry vokes. as
sistant superintendent; Thomas Clark.
engineer; Stephen Hayes. William
Lahnstein. Jack Mackey, Frank Can
tain. Nicola Sampilla, Patrick Kearns.
J. Patton. Jack Welsh and two un-
identified
The injured: Peter McKenna. Peter
Sullivan. John johnson, superinten-
dent; Michael Keough. Martin Nelson
Patrick Keough. G. c. Van Duzen. con,
struction superintendent; Michael Gal
lagher.