Show tHE NE f HORROR j AT AI SCRANTON I IS CROWING w Announced Number ei D Dead ad Has Reached I Seventy THREE SEVENTY E BODIES ARE RECOVERED t ugh Praise Given Dead Foreman of Government L t Rescue Car ar I f April 8 Pancoast S.-Pancoast Pancoast Co Coal cai officials in charge of tho thoa announced at i t the tha a number of or dead as the result t p tb fir fire dIe in ln the P Pancoast ine at re yesterday t is seventy four in- in j Joseph JOsephE sephE E. E Evans Evan's foreman or of the tim car bad had been ISn gj bodies odies I gt t to the surface at 1230 p p. p m m. r fee z umber of dead exceeds that of disaster in the tho anthracite t coal 1 o the The Tho origin of n in recent years ears bas has lias not yet e been ascertained I a ri rigid id in esti investigation at on is is b being in conI con con- I ltd by the state mine officials four of the dead have hare been i ed Man Many of the tho victims were and known on only onis- by a 1 number nie the tho list of ot vie vic Ji Joseph E E. Evans E of West i io Jio was foreman of the tho United itei t r rt ue car which was sent to the from j-from He was 35 in n old ld fbi hOled of t. t the English speak speak- 1 ms of the tire fire in ln addition to JUi Speaking Dead nt g married c Perr Pern miner married one child Til Ij a Scranton city councilman man to tD D ilay company hand married company hand single ird Hart ten tender married three an sri n- n 41 U Walker company compan hand married Iren Idun au u s' s s miner rr ma-rr married I ed U rena- rena eJ Gall GaU miner minor married vf ri R miner married J r Bil door F mariie marri r ono One amon the vl victims victims' tIl s are t v Victims i i I who wh ho hoL fi had d' d l' l children hll ri 7 g L Stephen and John Jr one the tho other a driver perished boYl and his hh two brothers rothera D Qa John lohn all aU miners were wera also it I 1 the night n th the rescuing I kt kept t at their task of or picking up d dead id hb ph lay Jar strewn along the far far- at- at the tho tunnel of or the Pancoast s1 yf from jm off which were the chami chamanI cham- cham i anI h they hadre had re for far their days day's toll to re which started In ono one of or the engine rooms room In tho the China V. V 11 P feet beneath the surface the tho thet tit t working working- In tho the mine did not not-do atch sUch damage as had been believed ed I Ore 5 did not reach the entombed m nia il the Ike condition on Jt of their bodies shows death wa was as due to suffocation from e or or asphyxiation from the tho I IU gas to Foreman JAA tA Holmes director of the United bureau of mining who arrived is th night accompanied l by D D. W W. ot the the- Instruction department of or bereau mid cald l a 1 high tribute to the hm tn jL or of I Evans E who was leading a arile rile tang Into nto he the smoke laden mine 11 t black blackdamp damp It was the tho first the the f federal dral rescue rescue- s system tem was Witt Into action In the anthracite coal iii fl t has nas not yet M been definitely es- es 5 nM e. e now how Evans E came camo to his death theory li 11 that in adjusting his heler helt hel- hel t t er It t against the low tilled filled gangway an he ro- ro led It slightly from his hili head and in SE r w to Inhaled led black damp Ty advanced van M by br Dr Holmes I Is that t III nay may have died from carbon caroon dioxide ening He inhaled In Inthe the thed tet s ted d by b the oxygen OX n and andt again t wear r of or the helf helt hel- hel t t. t Dr f Holmes Holme sal saM said who overexerted Kit the fate that befell berell 1 i l there is I. a nuch gas In tho the mine Il B Bodies In Morgue ore cro ml t twenty ono bodies in- in tr that h t of Foreman Evans Ei of the t s. s rescue car cart had been pia placed red a improvised d mor morgue e in the engine Wr the head of the shaft At At 4 4 ek this inn morning there theres was s another E of of- twenty one additional bodies n were Q holst hoisted to the surface urfa and ind 1 Into nto ln the tho vi temporary morgue bt th the t company As AI fast as an I n ca on wa a made marte ado the body was WelS o out t one of or a score cor of dead 5 Its I ViM un und undertakers rt tak k rs rl from all parts S anna wanna all valley had nai lined 7 UP UP- rn With Which these cr crYl up by byll the the- undertakers and md their s- s Called ca tu forth orth Indignation from e I k at ra some lorne yelling bod body snatch- snatch at th a as their Wi ambulances were away ies I or l brave d deeds eds done by bv re being n told today by bv miners who warn d of or the fire In ln time timeto to tod d their u 8 ap a It II Is related that n Perry err 5 Mine lIne Foreman r ht t I and r. r boll 8 Dawes Perished as of their going Into the depths nl i t to ar others of or their clanThey dan clan tu They rn were t to tere 0 ere safety before they re It ig 0 difference nc of ot opinion among amongas fo as n nB to whether tho dead lead MI If feud f all tn the have ave n n saved ed Somo think Wn i In ln th the und under r workings rein TB lit 11 n l Jl notified there was wasL aR the i me e mine nIno f L foie all could hav ha j gotten otten t the th workings became flied tj gas k P Spread Quickly l lly lIe e that it wa was impossible lYe e Snails n y In the blind gangway p ie 1 his biB csc no nil the black cAll r Penetrated C Cr every r part of tJ Il n Vein eln beyond the fire zone lc t sine me rein rn the fact that It ll J Jt Is II t to Ch PM v n In the Le mine and th N thAt na fb The bod bodies of orthe the dead fo for iiri a all ad made a hard the CUI burying their faces deep th lr rid wrappIng their coats coat C 1 iii n a au effort to ward off ort ul aJ r. r of l tte das tho the w in the hl roal oal oal nelds lu In this ae ec- ec at th a number in the tha UK Cr here hn nf t near some come year years one y One men and ani anit nf t be ov lr Lost to by t i Vf cf erl k chief of ot f tho the thor de es e. or of r Pennsylvania sr ar colliery early today hI lie A A. thorough hl O b by the state tutu mino inI In in- J A t I |