The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-11-19

enabled eleven survivors, carrying
the dead with them, to make their
way to the north chamber, under an
air shaft, at midnight. The rescuers
hoped to erect other barbados to en-
able the men to be carried out the en-
try on the south side some time to-
day.
The dead are:
WHITE.
Roy Carnes, 81 years old, single.
Hugh Mack Perkins, 80, married.
Jack Bond, As married.
NEGROES.
Alex James, "a.
George Andrews. AZ.
The missing man and the eleven
survivors are negroes.
Emmett Francis, a 17-year-old ne
gro trapped in the mine, is missing,
and hope for his rescue alive is prac-
tically at an end. Search, however,
was continued for him, but 1t was
feared that he had been buried be-
meath falling slate.
Eleven Are Saved.
The lives of the eleven survivors
were saved by the compressed air
piped into the mine for use in the
operations, according to three ne
groes who were able to climb the
ninety-five-foot ladder in the shaft to
the surface this morning. When they
felt themselves growing faint the
men would turn on the compressed
air valves and gulp in the air from
outside.
= Six physicians and Red Cross
nurses climbed down the shaft this
morning and ministered to the sur
vivors, who were too weak and Ill to
climb out to safety. Blankets were
taken down and cans of hot coffee,
besides stimulants. The shaft is too
small to permit the men being car
ried out on cots or stretchers and the
survivors must wait until the rescue
crew erects other barricades. The
rescuers reached the imprisoned men
and the dead by working from the
shaft at the north end of the mine
Gathered about the entrance of the
mine and near the air shaft, through
which early last night smoke was
. belching, the families of the impris-
oned miners and of the victims were
gathered. Bond and Perkins have
families of several children.
The negroes imprisoned in the mine
this morning were Jimmie Rose, John
Radford, George Hines, Tom Cant,
Henry Jemison, JEFF Hall, Lander
Luton, Henry Yarbrough, Tolbert
Yarbrough, Clarence Jemison and
Jimmie Crouch.
Wallace Hines, negro driver, dis
covered the fire, which is believed to
have started in a short circuit in a
cable. Hines was taking car of
coal out of the mine. He ran the
gauntlet of the flames and was nearly
suffocated by gas and smoke. Reach
ing the outside, he spread the alarm.
The other miners were in four cham
bers far back in the mine. The flames
started three miles back from the
entrance.
The miners all were equipped with
gas masks, but apparently the smoke
and gas was so heavy that the masks
proved inefficient.
The roar of the flames could be
heard on the surface yesterday after
noon.
Trained mine rescue crews from
the West Kentucky Coal Company at
Sturgis, with full equipment of gas
helmets and pulmotors reached the
mine late in the afternoon and went
to work with the trained rescurers Of
the st. Bernard Coal Company, which
owns the Arnold mine. Frank ID.
Rash, manager of the company, and
Lee Stillwell, superintendent, person. |
ally aided In the rescue efforts.
Barrlcades of timbers were erect
ed and in some places cloth curtains
hung. This cut off the air from the
flames and by this means the smoke
was diverted from the four chambers
fxyhara the imprisoned men had been