| Show STORIES OF THE MINE AND WORK OF 01 RESCUE Special Staff Sta Correspondence Coi Co Pond Scofield May 3 4 a m The e men men I who hav have been found d dead d in bunches are aie those who knowing that destruction dE truc tion was VM upon them Chem rushed from their rooms and the to the main tunnels In the tunnel No 4 they were found in bunches bunch for these t hav Ing h heard the explosion ran at once In No 1 many of the miners did not mt t know what w was s coming upon them thi so 80 they did not escape the deadly af li ter tei damp in time The first men who were I taken from fron No 1 i were not scarred nor I marked Front From their and anti j 1 the expressions eio of f their faces fa it itS seemed semd S dJ that they had haS died ia in peace They Th were the victims of the damp amp But everyone killed killet In itt No 4 was bruised crushed ami am burned The flames and violence e had killed l them Mangled Bodies Dodies Found Today there were we brought from No NoI I 1 from its s end and rooms r over twenty men mea who had been beem burned and mangled to death These were ware mostly from the tte east end of the fifth and anti sixth raises or cro es which join similar IO from tunnel 4 Tie he great explosion had hwi made mad its ita way down dawn No 4 and had branched bra Ched oft off into these open opet reaching r ching No 1 It was te men employed In such places on No io 1 who were were brought out ut mangled on Wednesday We How nw hy hymore more of them yet not known Numberless roe roen are yet unexplored un and wherever the rescuers ers go In hi them therl they find fin But One Mine Though ou this property is sometimes mes spoken of as two to mf miI nee it is in r only on 0 with two tunnels lt both run runar nt ar south of of a amile amile amile mile ap apart The old tu eI which has been worked for twenty tw enty years rears or more is No 1 and t til i comparatively eo new one is No 4 No 1 I which enters the mountain montin of or coa co coal just a few feet f t above bove the level of the railroad track near the theold theold I old Winter Quarters boarding hau heuse bue e runs in lit almost due south for fler i r two miles or more There are at long intervals raises rat es levels or dips dip dIp as they are variously called c and are In inI I fact croS tunnels They run out o t vary varying lag ing distances some some 3 O 3 Q feet others a half mile mUe On the east side of tunnel No 1 there are ar eight of or these raises or levels Several of them the fifth and sixth and seventh run over to connections co neu with croe entrIes going west from No 4 Thus it Is possible to t go in one tunnel and come COD out the th other othe Dt er But aut the tunnels at their ends do not connect They Keep running m south into the grest t Blanket t of f eo L LAll AU All these different underground rami ramifications ram are through b tills 1115 immense de deposit deposit posit of coal of an average tl tc of fourteen en feet and a covering an am area very large but the met exact extent x ent of which H i unknown How gow Miners Work The miners except pt company men work in different places and in pairs pains They work at the faces or the th ends of the main mam and at the same places on the s digging out conI coal They blast a torn down and picked cars cas which are hauled out by hare eaOn On each car there is a check the number Lumber on which corresponds to t the JUans man s name as 5 num numbered numbered bored on the books of the th company But the large larg force of men work In Inthe inthe Inthe the rooms which re e offshoots off hoots from front the oo levels s raises or dips j i These Th e rooms rooms are wider wid r and larger larser than i i ithe j I i the main ar or the cross I 1 I I 9 I I t p I I I III II The miners work work about In these blocks block of solid coal with walls of coal from which th they y dig the fuel Each pair is isI separated by these th walls from the theother theother theother other pair and there ther els Is Im between most of them no communication cation But some I of the rooms running south connect conne t with these running north from tunnels just beyond Thus it is to walk through great gre t stretches of the mine without following the main mails tunnel How many m y of these rooms room there there are is iv not known They are all numbered and the knowledge of or them is vary ery system systematized systematized systematized But in the hurly burly burly and con confusion confusion confusion fusion consequent upon this accident little information concerning them can be obtained obtain d from Orn the company p ny officiate officials There ia is map of r the the whole mine somewhere here at Scofield cofield ld but the of officials of the th mine ine declare decla e that th t they are ar too busy to find it lot for the th newspapers Rescuers rs Driven f Back Were it not for f this thi f n be between between tween tweet the rooms the tha rescue prk i would be a matter of weeks instead d of I days The rescuing party in No N 1 on Tuesday found it impossible imp e to get into I f I c entry No 5 from the main tun tunnel nei nel nd The afterdamp aft which surround surrounded I ed thorn them made it for them to go farther Had they gone on they would have been overcome and would never neel have h ve been taken out alive So they found it necessary to go away up the main tunnel till they reached No 7 Then they made their way WHY south south through the rooms fill un they the got into No 5 There were found Adam Hunter and son Tom Parrish and arid son and Harry Wil VU Wilson Wilson son How many moro mores of them did aid id you see was asked of one of the rescuers ers em Oh dont ask Sk me said he and he seemed sick at the thought There are lots of them Driving Out the Damp Da p The system m by which w they push the damp dam in front of them and force orse pure sure pureair pureair air in its place so that they th y can pro uro progress gress gross Is complicated c d to an outsider t There is in the th air chute of the mine which lies between the two tunnels tunnel an immense suction fan which draws air all in both and drives it out the chute The miners have a method worked with what are known as brat brattices brattices tices tires which consist ly of long pieces nieces of canvas canyas six x fee fe wide These The Theare es are stretched down the center of a aWn tun tunnel nel nd and the e pure Dure air is driven iriv nd w wone one side of it it while the Is forced out of the other The system is ia not perfect and Is in this present confusion impromptu and a make makeshift makeshift makeshift shift But it serves erv s a purpose pur o and nd is the only ly way by which the rescuing crews cIes can enter where the noxious and deadly damp has permeated No one ona at the mine can cam say definitely boss hv long it will wUl take to force out all the damp It may maybe be weeks eks w or it may maybe maybe ma mabe be merely days The gas is what wha de delays delays delays lays the work of reset re ctt Were it away and out large numbers of men could rush In and dig away way at the debris look for victims and bring them the 1 out in a short time But only one cre creW has been working at a time of this danger dang THESE MEN ARE HEROES The men who are doing this work of rescue are heroes far fer they take their lives in their hands as soon as they the get near the tho afterdamp It requires nerve to approach these theao places and nerve to te keep up and fight off the feeling of sickness si kness that comes even when the pure pur air has partially driven the damp out C E DOWNING |
