Show NG OF BODiES Of MINERS r PROVES MEN NAVE HAVE BEEN SAVED I I Letters Left by the III Fated and Fans Con r I to Keep Back Back Damp Tell the Story of the Terrible Struggle I I Cherry Lii III lQ x hundred t were vere roun rh today In the veIn rein of oC th the theS Se S Paul mine The rescuing party found fans fatis which the Imprisoned mon I II I had made malic from tool boxes and t firl tL cs S which had been written on ono o of slate T lere remain One minors unaccounted for forThe forThe The bodies found this morning wc p In a tangled mass completely the lie staircase loading from froni the tbt third to the tha second vein eln and were scattered along the ein eia 1 they h hal had dropped before Ing tile stairway Ick damp was the tho cause of death all m means ans of escape having been hi I hy by falling failing anti and cover coverIng Ing the top of the staircase The Thenn nn tiled died as tho they tried to through tim the obstructIons or In waIt ln In vainly for Death Dath i did not como to man many for I If not days T o rude wood NI y fans fashioned after r rh h hc iamo manner mauner as those C found two dr ys wore affixed to the shaft vIi 11 and ani stairway The men hid these by hand band In their fran Cran frantie tie tiC struggle for Cor air and the s to hack back the tho black damp Thc fh hands of oC one miner were found fl f nil ml gripping about aboul the fan lIe exploring partY of f four ur led h LoI was In tho gal galI I PI for Cor moro than an before th bodies found The They hail d In water waist deep through t circular tunnel their wn way t Ii ward the elevation or of the f haft or rIdge where the they had expected to Ilni the men living or dead The signals given by the rescuers and thc usual er cry Anybody alive In Inhere here wert not red When we lip up the rIdge f Td i almost stopped oD the Oil bodies piled In heaps hoaps Some had tJ 11 resting on folded arms arm armas as If sleeping Others were lying acos each other and some somo Were tilting as u If resting against the wall mil Nailed to the tho wall were two of timbering lied about pick handles and under them were the ll heaps of bodies One poor fellow had his hand up the fan I think ho he died as lic hC ns turning It Another held a Tie He was flat on have lied died CUI as he climbed up on ridge The Tho bucket was v lih water Th The black damp killed them Ion long the water reached l them Wo Vo brill hn In the haft moro muro than an then n and I though hough the air WAS was good wo we knew It was time for foru forus u us t get out We Vc top stop to examine an any Ot 11 tiit bodies or tr try to identify them Tim Mulligan one of our pIck d n II piece or of natural slate on which as written We are here together which have hae meant the number of oC men aid ad I think it W was S about the tho rIght On n a wooden box used to hold holdt holdI t I h b I SI saw written with a lead pen eli 11 We f aro hero to lie die together some figures were under r i 1 I real read It aB but Im Im not lUre lUreNo No evidence that the tho mon men had at te ft to barricade themselves trout rom the blue blacic lanil was seen Many Inn of the former workers In the tho mine Protested angrily after they ther e that the mon would have been f ff fc from the tho lentil dead I gas as had not fan of oC the tho mine lIon been shortly after artel the tho discovery of It fire of tits tilt mine officials to 10 pump out the tho lu I Ilic ho lower leol was balked by the tho of the machinists to aid them The pump hns been disconnected near thc second level loel and lie do to ro risk their lives In I tile bc machinery Robert Shaw a third member of tho I Ie e explorIng party part the of oC reading a piece eo of slate on which ono of the victims apparentlY hail had off the tho totals of the tho groups who upon the tho ridge In III last stand for lIfo Tue Tho writ writIng In Ing as remembered b by him hini more In 24 more H more l O hero now The figures hastIly computed by br Shaw haw Indicated d that the number ex cx when whon the tho tally ended 1 think some somo of the tho men hud bar bal 1 themselves In pockets In thu hut were driven drIen to the b 1 Ih the n rising ln water vater salti lId Shaw It had not got out of the they would bavo been boen drowned In InS S nw also told of an attempt of the thern mets rn to 10 build a barricade at the of the ridge to hold the damp The Tho wall WM was only n ii fow 1 Iet t high however the tho builders uD aP haring abandoned the at attempt 14 tempt or having been een overcome 1 by byr guz UE r |