| Show Stricken F milie Cling to Belief That Some May Survive Repair of Ventilating System Will Make Possible Entry Into S the Shaft Thirty four Bodies Believed Buried l md Ind Feb 21 By A. A P. P P. Despite Despite the insistence S O SULLIVAN of State Mine l Inspector Albert Dally Daily and other officials that there is no hope for those still underground relatives clung to their belief that possibly a few men may have barricaded themselves from the dreaded after damp and would yet be brought out alive Under lowering skies that occasionally occasionally occa occa- cast down showers a throng of relatives and friends stood about the shaft of or the City Coal company compan mine today waiting word of or the efforts efforts- of rescue crews to bring forth the bodies of ot thirtyfour thirtyfour thirtyfour thirty- thirty four miners still held beneath the debris of an explosion that wrecked a part of the mine interior yesterday yes yes- es I Rescue work which was halted when it was impossible to venti late the wrecked workings properly as being pushed ahead today and officials hoped within a few hours to bring out additional bodies Sullivan began plans for relief of or orthe the stricken families A mass meeting meeting meet meet- ing was held this afternoon attended attend attend- ed by representatives of various civic and fraternal organizations to coordinate the relief work 1 I I I I I I I A AT T THE MOUTH OF CITY MINE UE U E Sullivan Ind md Feb 21 By ByJ U. U JP P- P R P.-R P. Recovery ery co of the seventeenth bod body today from the City mine and anda a recheck of or the payroll convinced officials that the total dead In the theas gas as explosion stands at fifty ity Thirty-four Thirty bodies are still sUIl under under- ground Rescue workers are racing with witha a reported earth slide to recover reco the entombed men Officials said there is no doubt In their minds that the thirty four men are dead Workers Yorkers dug desperately desperately to reach reath thirty four men 11 e entombed in the diggings Rescue Hescue wor workers ers came to the toP lop lopat op at 7 a a. a m announced and and announced they feared a squeeze In rooms 3 and andI I 4 of ot the north end If the slide elide ocI occurs oc oc- I curs some of the bodies will be buried burled in the earth slide they said This report tended to speed up rescue work men racing with time timeto I to carry out th the remaining thirtyfour thirtyfour thirty thirty- four bodies the west entry room rooms There is no question but what all the men are dead S. S J J. Wilton deput deputy deputy dep dep- ut uty state mine inspector said this morning that no one could possibly be alive e A squeeze following an explosion explosion explosion sion is a sinking of the earth andall and andall andall all man power cannot check its course It is is reported to be sinking sinking sinking sink sink- ing one inch per per hour In this Section Sec section sec tion of the mine rooms are but 4 feet 10 inches high The mine was cleared of oC all men menat menat menat at 6 o'clock last evening for a test of air to be taken It was four hours before rescuers again went into the shaft The They reappeared explaining that they could only go feet back due to gas condi condi- It took two hours according to Wilton to reroute the rescuers in their crawl through the mine Themen The Themen Themen men are forced to push air before them A As As- they advance ance forty five feet today they return forty five feet and brattice up cross entries to keep the air from crossing over thus forcing it ahead of ot them This work is slow and tedious Two rescue rescue res rca I cue teams o of six men each are re- re Continued on page 2 2 STRICKEN FAMILIES CLING TO BELIEF SOME MAY SURVIVE Continued from page 1 every two hours by frosh tresh teams Rain fell throughout the night adding to the misery of ot the crowds of relatives of ot the trapped men Men women and children milled about the mouth of ot the mine Some seemed paralyzed others weeping and shrieking hysterically One hundred and thirty five men I were in the mine when the explosion i sion sian occurred yesterday Eight Eighty Eighty- four men crawled up the air shaft within half an hour after atter the ex ex- ex 1 Russell Carley mine foreman was the seventeenth brought from the mine Rescue men with gas Tas masks s went Into entry No 3 u to to- to u day In hi an effort t to tre re remove 1 e bodies of ot twenty men believed to have ha been trapped in that section of ot the tho mine First of rescuers were to attempt to force torce Into entry No 3 This was believed possible within a short time and It if successful the twenty men will be Immediately hoisted to the tha top Air is the main factor No Xo more more i shovel work is needed Crowds are I being kept back from the mouth in order that all ali the air possible can be forced down Into the mine We need and lots of 01 It was the only statement Chief Inspector Dailly Damy would make |
