Show DEBRIS HAMPERS WORK OF RESCUE TwentyNine Bodies Taken Out of West Fork Mine at Po Pocahontas Pocahontas Pocahontas W Va Bluefields W TV Va Oct 5 Twenty Twentynine nine bodies have been recovered from the West Fork mine m ne of the Pocahontas Collieries company at Pocahontas Va and a conservative estimate places the total number of dead at seventy The rescuing party reached the scene of the explosion but the immense imm nse amount of debris and wreckage has hampered the search for bodies There is no evidence thus far of fire Loss of Life Unknown There is nothing authentic to be learned from rom any source as to the ac actual actual actual number of men who perished in the disaster Usually there are about miners in the section affected by the explosion exclusive of the drivers trappers prop setters and The only way wa to tell how Tiou many are missing would be to make a complete census of the compa s but butth the th excitement Is so intense that this cannot be done doneIt It is i said tonight will take ten days to clear the mine of wreckage and slate The most fortunate te feature f f re of f the catastrophe Js ls the fact that the mine did ld not take fire xe Company Figures res The management tonight gives es the th figures s at dead already recovered and twenty missing and be believed to be dead Ten men were put putto putto putto to work thic morning digging graves in the same cemetery and crose close to the spot where in 1884 over miners who had perished in a similar explosion ere buried At the Improvised morgue Hungarians ans Italians and negroes thronged to identify the dead and as fast as this was w s done clone the bodies were placed in coffins and removed to their homes Enormous crowds gathered here from all over the vast coal field T The mine min tonight is reported free from gases gaes and safe for the relief par parties parties parties ties to work wor |