The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1922-11-08
GAS CHOKED NINE
OF R E|LLY GIVES
UP MANY BODIES
Remains OF UnfOrtunates q
Ghastly Sight in Temper
ary MOrgue.
THIRTEEN BODIES SEEN
BUT NOT YET RECOVERED
Thirty-tWo Injured Are Now inI
Various Hospitals, Not More
Than 112 Men in Mine When
Explosion Came.

Stranger, Pa, Nov. 1.-THE bodies
of fifty miners who lost their lives
in the Reilly mine explosion here
yesterday, lay in the temporary NOR
que this morning Thirteen more
were in sight in the mine, rescue
workers said and thirty two injured
were in the miners hospital.
Leaders of the rescuers summariz
ed the situation at that hour:
Men in the mine when explosion
occurred, not more than 112.
Bodies recovered, fifty.
Bodies located in mine, thirteen
Injured in hospital, thirty-two.
Totol accounted for, ninety-five.
There was still some uncertainty
as to the number of men who went
to work yesterday, but it was point
ed out that if the total was 112, as
some authorities believed the miss
ing seventeen miners would probably
he found the tighth heading where
the water had risen SO rapidly that
exploration during the day he'd been
Impossible. Even if these men had
gone into the mine,, 1t was asserted,
they had probably perished.
If that proved true, the leaders
said, the number of dead would reach
eighty. ...45
Efforts were being made to repair
the pumps, damaged by the explosion
while the force of workers were cut
ting passageway through the coal
between the eighth and ninth head,
ings. With this work complete, they
hoped to reach the last of the un
explored galleries.
Forty victi~is of the explosion had
been brought to the surface early to-
day as, rescue workers searched
through the water-soaked passages
for the remaining twenty to twenty,
five believed to have perished when
the blast entombed more than ninety
men soon after they reported for
work yesterday morning.
Officials of the Reilly Coal Com
pany, owners of the mine, were not
certain of the number of workers in
the pit when the disaster occurred.
They expressed the belief that the
death toll would be between fifty and
sixty
Thirty-three men rescued are in a
hospital here and physicians said they
would recover.
The grim task of removing the
dead started about o'clock this
morning after widows and children
of the missing men had been induced
to return home. They stood in the
misty rain all through yesterday.
Rescue chiefs believed that the mine
would be cleared of bodies soon after
day break.
Six state troopers patrolled the
area about the mine mouth and kept
the hundreds of curious people away.
Miners Hall, little structure here,
was the temporary morgue. Under
takers here, in Barnsboro and in
Johnstown were ordered to prepare
for the dead men. Early today some
were washing and em-
Dalming the mire-soaked bodies in
the hall here. Every delivery truck
and wagon in Spangler, was pressed
into Service as a morgue wagon.
Red Cross and Salvation Army
from Pittsburg, Altoona
and Johnstown Were on hand distrib-
uting coffee and sandwiches to the
rescue squads as they came to the
surface with their grim burden or to
replenish the oxygen tanks for new
exploration of the muddy pits.
When rescue workers entered the
mine soon after noon yesterday they
bodis in the main way
only 100 feet from fresh air. They
halted only long enough to make sure
there was no spark of life and then
hurried On into the gassy chambers
to seach for possible survivors.
Their hopes were high when they
came upon rudely constructed brat
tice on whcih was scrawled:
''There are 90 miners behind this"
But the rescuers pushed on deeper