The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-09-20
Five Bodies
Are Taken
From Mine
Coroner's Jury to BE Sworn
in Today-Inquest to BE
Held Thursday-ldenii-
fication l. Hard.
Red Cross Busy at Homes

NCuSioss Duoy dt iIoilics
Jackson, Cal, Sept. i9.-(By 4
P1-Bodies OF miners eniombed =
days By a fire in the Argonaut gold
mine, were brought TO the surface
today. The United States bureau oi
mines crew wrapped the bodies in
canvas, where they were found last
the poisonous gases will continue
Argnnaut, and carried them through
the Kennedy mine adjoining.
Five bodies were taken out dur
ing the afternoon Three OF them
were identified. The work OF bring
ing out the ~ victims OF the fire and
the poisonous gasses will continue
until all have been recovered.
Coroner's Jury Called.
A eoroner's jury will be sworn in
tomorrow by Mrs. Lola Potter, the
coroner, TO view the ill-fated miners.
An inquest probably will be held
Thursday, at which an endeavor will
be made TO establish the cause OF
death. 1t is not expected the respcn-
sibility for the disaster will be fixed
After the bodies were brought from
the underground workings, they were
conveyed TO a building on the Ar
gonaut property. a mile from the
Kennedy shaft, and placed in coiiins.
Efforts are to be made to identify all
OF the disasters victims.
Persons without passes or bust
Hess AZ the Kennedy mine were kept
off the property and there was no
demonstration when the rescue crews
appeared at the collar OF the Kennedy
shalt with their human burdens. Red
Cross workers remained at the homes
OF the widows and orphans OF the
victims OF the disaster making ar
rangements for their immediate care
aud the funerals.
Make Check Of Dead.
The district attorney OF Amador
county, T. G. Negrich, is expected
TO question the witnesses at the in
'guest. Among the witnesses will be,
It was announced, the engineer OH
duty at the Argonaut before the fire
started and the engineer who relieved
him and was on duty when the fire
was discovered. ...
A check of the names OF the dead
showed seven were born in the
United States, 20 in Italy. IS i'll
Jugo-Slavia and four were OF Span
ish or Mexican ancestry. Others
could not be checked.
+, A. Stent, vice president of the
Argonaut company, said he felt the
fire was unavoidable and his COM
pany had done everything possible
to rescue the men. He declared he
would welcome an official investiga~
ton.
Pay Toll for Gold,
Jackson, Cal, Sept. l9.-(By A. P.)
Jackson. mining town in the
mother lode country, has paid the
toll demanded of those who delve in
the earth for gold and Stands un-
afraid, but not dry-eyed today.
Forty-seven of its men died in the
Argonaut mine early on the morning
o( August 2s, it learned last night,
and today il awaits the bringing of
their bodies from the rock tunnel.
walled in with fimsy bulkheads of
their own building, that has been
their tomb Tor three weeks. But
Jackson is unafraid, for its men
showed they knew how to die. More
over, those who did not meet that
late showed they knew how to live,
ior they gave of themselves without
stint in the effort to save their en-
tombed fellows.
Three weeks ago last Suaday
uight men deep in the Argonaut be-
lcyed they smeled smoke. A shift
boss took two men and Wen, to in
vcstigate They found the shaft ahre
Al the 5,oO0-ioot level, chaneed death
from gas and were carried through
the trc TO the top OF the mine. Then
began work ot hre-hghting which
presently merged into one Of rescue
Tor the men below, for the FIRE
blocked the shalt and prevented the
escape Of the miners
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ia offer their services, the curious
iellowshin 81 miners bringing hearty
offers ot service iron an who could
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