The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-23

RS feared that criticism and new
legislation would result in the clos,
ng down of all Of the mines In the
district. All the mines were operat,
ng practically without profit, he
'aid, to give employment.
Henry M. Baker OF the national
headquarters OF the American Red
Cross at Washington, d. c.. arrived
.oday to take active charge of relief
work. A conference Of local Red
Cross officials. the four mine union
ocals and the citizens relief com
nittee met today and authorized Ba
ger to take charge.
w. 1. Nesbitt, chairman OF the To-
al Red Cross, announced that total
were s2.700. It in
cluded 500 from VIII Hays, for.
nerly of this city and now car
IF motion pictures; $500 from the
Elks lodge, 500 from the Moose
odge and 800 from Lintor Ind.
Message From New
Ed Stewart. district representative
If the Department Of Labor, re-
>eived telegram OF sympathy from
Harry S. New. postmaster general.
to the citizen Of sulli.
van.
Miners were clearing the charnel
hole of dangerous gases. Part OF
The gas was forced out as rescue
workers recovered the ffty.one
bodies between 1925 a. m. Friday,
when tho explosion occurred, and
5:07 a. m. Sunday. when the last
body was taken out. But much re
NAMED toNbe done before Chief State
Mine Inspector Albert Daily, Fed,
eral experts and State deputies felt
/ would be safe for them to 60
down and make the minute inspec.
ion necessary.
Meet at Q A. Nj. Tuesday
Daily and the others are to meet
A. a. m. Tuesday at the mine to
start the official probe. They will
sift numerous theories, the chief OF
which is that the miners cut through
to abandoned runs OF the City OF
another mine and let in the terrible
gas, and that open lamps on their
caps touched off the explosion.
Six funerals were held Sunday. six
teen were set for today, eighteen for
Tuesday, three wednesday. while w
r. Mooerly will be buried Thursday
others were to be held in nearby
owns.
Sullivan was a stricken city.
Business houses were closed on a
proclamation of Mayor Aydelotte.
Flags were at half-mast. A down.
pour or rain added to the dismality.
Miners. who Friday and Saturday
tciled to rescue the entombed men,
today shouldered shovels and spades
to carry out the tradition that min
ars shall bury their dead.
Hearses Are Impeded
Roads leading to the cemeteries
we're seas Of mud. Hearses and fu.
neral professions met with difficulty
In reaching burial grounds.
Relatives Of the dead miners were
burying their dead. But one double
funeral was heId-that OF r. l.
Jackson and his son-in-law, Gilbert
Taylor. Many services were held
at churches.
Sullivan stores were completely
out OF crepe and other cities were
called on to supply flowers as well
May Resume Work Soon
o. CT Thomas. chief weighman
sal dhe thought that the mine might
be in operation week from today.
Upon a statement of Elmer David
son, the only man injured to be
brought out alive. that Harry An
1erson, mine superintendent. was
called into Entry Three short time
before the explosion. experienced
built their new theory Of the
cause OF the explosion.
Davidson still is in the hospita,
with serious injuries. He said that
he and Anderson were at the bot
tom of the shaft when a miner came
TO them and told Anderson he was
wanted in Entry Three.
The new theory is that an electric
coal cutting machine had driven
the wall of a room off Entry
Three into a wall of a room of
Entry two. Entry Two has been
closed for some time. Dangerous
gasses always collected in closed
entries.
May Have Noticed Gas
The old time miners say that sew
aral men, whose bodies were found
in the room with the coal cutting
machine off Entry Three may have
noticed at once that gas was coming
IN from the leak into Entry Two, ex-
their open lamps and
sent for Harry Anderson.
Anderson may have walked into
the room where the miners awaited
him with his open lamp burning and
touched off the blast, the
veteran miners say.
The cutting machine was found
on top OF one of the miners in the
room of Entry Three.
It was expected that Chief State
Nine Inspector Daily and other In