Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-04-29
State Inspector Believes That
None of Workmen, Impris-
oned in Hastings Tunnels
Is Alive,
ATTEMPTS TO RESCUE
WILL Be CONTINUED
Relief Squads viii DesiSt From
Their Work Only When
They Are Absolutely Certain
That No One Is Alive,
t.y MORNING .oueaAL SPECIAL LEASED ~trH

INV nopNtna IounRAL SPECIAL tEAsHo WtnEl
Hastings, Colo, April 2S.-Virtuallv
all hope of saving any of the 100 men
entombed in the Hastings mine OF the
Victor American Fuel company here
Yesterday morning by an explosion,
was abandoned tonight. James Dali
rymple, state coal mine inspector who
came from the mine late today, gave IT
as his opinion that there was no one
left alive in the mine. Rescue men
who have been in the mine almost
uniformly express themselves likewise.
G. F. Bartlett, president of the
| company however, declares the work
of rescue shall go on until there is abb
| solutely no hope any of the entomoed
men are alive So far thirteen bodies
have been taken from the mine.
| Explosion Occurred.
The reports the mine was afire and
| that there had been no explosion, now
reversed are explained by mine off
ciaIs are due to the fact that no, shock
as from an explosion was felt and that
considerable smoke and gas, now as
sumed to be from the explosion, pour
ed from the mine mouth for some
4 time.
The merely curious had been pre-
vented from approaching the i'm
i promptu morgue in the machine shoI
at the head of the mine stope. The
women whose husbands lie inside OF
those with business, they approach
readily. At the mouth of the air shat
a crowd, partly curious. partly genu'
jnely interested, waits for news from
under ground and there are a few
women in 1t who braved the snow
storm of late afternoon and early
evening. None of them can tel
whether the bodies brought out are
those of dear ones but many weep anc
all cry out whenever stretcher witt
its grim burden is borne up the stope
Bodies are brought covered and thu
faces and limbs in many cases are 81
distorted that recognition is possible
only through the brass checks carried
by each miner who enters the work
ings.
Many Nationalities.
There are Mexicans, Austrians, Ital
ians, Americans" and scattering o
other races employed in the mine. TIL
crowds talk necessarily in half doZe1
languages. The result is almost bah
BILE.
The appropriate question tonight t.
| NIB 1fc aS 0f
he might be experienced is: "Have yo'
been inside?" Most of them hav
been but cannot give any connected
: idea of the situation. Many of then
have relatives among the trapped an
seem dazed by the shock.
The topic uppermost in the mind 0
everyone is when will this shift com
, out 2" for the outcoming of the shift
gives the only news of what is hap
. pening at the scene of operations HOY
, many more bodies have been foun
, or information that serves as a foun
dation for hope that dear ones ar
alive. The whole town is tired ou
!, Most of the men have been awake an
on duty of one kind or another sine
the time of the explosion except som
of the miners who are being held
/, readiness for rescue work or who ar
= not to be allowed to go into the min
as yet.
Crowds About Mine.
i From hour to hour the crowds 8
Il the mouth of the air course an
0 around the machine shop, now servin
: as mortuary, vary, sometimes ther
y are several hundred people and other
: there are but handful Around tn
n the mouth of the air course there al
no barriers and the crowd stanc
e close, but around the mortuary rope
b are stretched to keep back thos
o whose idle curiosity prompts them
# stand about. The miners familie
l. those of the miners who escaped er
is tombment because they were o.
: shift or in other ways, climoe
: the hill to the mine sing
e file. blowing through mud
o get there. Where there was snow tn
Is morning there was slush, at noon, an
st tonight thick, creamy mixture whie
run in rivulets down the hills