Show Dead bead Mans Man's Row Now All Empty Hulks i 1 I j Presages Destiny of Illinois Mine Town I 7 i t y yi F i e 4 MINa pow r y fRANCESCo FRACESCO i p I CHERRY Ill March 6 5 AUGh AU- AU Gh Ghostly Dead Mans Man's Row Itow for n years ears a a. a gaunt memorial to one ot of Americas America's greatest mine disasters today the desolate deso- deso late tate fate which may over overtake ake all of Cherry if a coal coaY comes on April 1 I There are eighty houses In Dead DeadMans DeadMans Mans Man's Row flow all of them them- hulks When the great mine fire tool took a atoll atoll toll of 27 at Cherry on No November vember 13 1909 these homes were touched mOre heavily than an any others and an bereaved moved d out No Now the railroad company which operates the mine has dismantled Its Its Granville mine nearby and has openly intimated that H f suspension of w work rk causes tHe closing of 0 the mine It will vIll be cosed permanently If that happenS happen the thousand remaining Inhabitants will Quit the village which once was a town ot of twenty eight saloons Few ot of th the residents sta- sta staIn in Cherry for tor love of the town And few ew ot of them go gon n near ar Dead Mans Man's Row flow where the wind now moans and whistles s through the rifts where doors and windows have been and where credulous folk tolk of the village de- de dare clare the spirits of the ill fated tenants hover If Cherry becomes a deserted village vii vil- lage Frances o storekeeper Or er and one ot of two surviving eight day men will be among those who will quit it There were twenty one eight day men who escaped d death ath athIn In the burning mine b by walling themselves off Rescuers reached them on tile the eighth da day Mining Is and has been Cherrys Cherry's only activity But ev even n it if the shafts are closed and the sound of the pick Is stilled the town wIll not b be forgotten A stone memorial at atthe atthe the m ill fated mine Is to mark forever the site ot of a disaster which Is credIted credited cred- cred with having prepared the public public pub pub- lic mind throughout the nation for employers employers' liability and workmen's compensation laws I If ii I |