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Show TAKEN FROM THE MINE' One Hundred and Twelve I Bodies Are Recovered. i JOWNSTOWN IN MOURNING Sunday Dawns Upon n City Prepared to Devote Its Attention to Obsequies Obse-quies Innuguial of Grim Programme Pro-gramme Begun Yesterday, When the Streets of the City Were Clogged With Funeral Corteges It I Believed That All the Victims of Explosion Havo Been Recovered. Johnstown Pa , Jus i: -The extent of tin horrible catastrophe of the Roll-log Roll-log Mill mine of the fimbria Steel lompniij I, ,, cnpahIe of blln! grasped Eirj tonight In spite of con-dieting con-dieting reports ns to the number of dead n eaieful and complete compilation compila-tion by the Associated Press shows that 112 Is the exact number of bodies taken from th- mine Up to 6 o clock anl.,tYn"en Jv had becn "covered ?., ii Vnck ,0,lr molc re brought o the eurfire TollowlnB Is a list of the dead taken from the mine tn,n. BODIES HKCOVEItED. Teler W areola. John and Peter Sandor. brothers. Mike nnd Peter Puppa Olid so" ""d Michael Jloskal, father John Collon John (irohsk. Joe Proncho Plve unldentlflod Michael Mnndlch, aged 40, married. George Pravoblc 53 married. John I.ako. SO, married. Martin Webjar. 33 laborer. Paul Cvcna, J7. laborer. t.eorge Babula, 40. married. Andrew Babul l, 40, married. MISSING. George Babele, 30, married. raul Overnla 37. married Andrew Babele 3!, married. Martin Kubenko mitrlcd Mich icl Cucko, 30 married e'harles Spontao, 33, married, Martin Vcbjar, 33, married NEARLY ALL ACCOUNTED TOR. To this list future explorations of the mine corridors mnj ndd a few, but It cannot be manj ns nlmost tilt the emplojees who could hnve been In the mlno at the time of the llfo-wreck-Ins explosion of Thursday are nt-counted nt-counted for. Very few Inquiries for missing hnve been made to the authorities au-thorities or to tho mlno otllcials and this better than nn thing else demonstrates demon-strates the Impossibility of many hoi. ies still remaining In tho death trap. NO USE ESTIMATING Mine officials say there Is no use uttrtnnthi.? to psltmnte, trio m.mher nf dead They ray elmplv they do not know nnd urge the futility of plnclnR tho matter on the basis of guesswork They express the belief, however. Hint nil. or almost all, urc out of the mine. Genernl Superintendent Robinson came out about 4 o'clock this afternoon nfter nf-ter on urdous days exploration Ho expressed his conviction thnt not more than five dead botlles would be added to the 108 already known. MOURNING AND OnSEQUIES. Sunday will dawn upon the populous city of Johnstown prepared to devote Its nttcntlon to mourning nnd obsequies. The Inaugural of this grim programme was begun today when more than a score of Interments took place and as late as 7 o'clock this evening funeral processions with bunds plnjlng dirges and uniformed escorts nt their hends passed through the streets of tho city. EVERYTHING OIEN TO PUBLIC. After the brlnBlnB of the fifteen bodies bod-ies to the morgue nt an early hour toda It wan common!) rumored that the mine ofllcluls were cndeavoilng to hide tho truth ns to tho extent of tho disaster The developments of the day showed that these suspicious were unwarranted un-warranted OITICIAL INQUIRY Inspector Evans laid today as to future Investigations 'Those of tho company officials who were In tho mine nt the time of the explosion nnd havo survived will he called on to tes-tlfs. tes-tlfs. Until these men ate able to bo present at the Inquiry It will bo useless to try to do nn thing" SUSPEND JUDGMENT. Asked as to whose duty It was to take caro of the accumulation of ruh In the mine, Mr. Evans said. ' The tiro boss, of course, but two or three of tho fire bosses were killed by the explosion explo-sion nnd In the presence of death we must be altogether charitable and bus- iCII juvih'"v... SEARCH FOR VICTIMS. After consultation at the office Inspector In-spector Evans went Into the mine with Robinson and Moore. They did not emerge until late In the afternoon Tho work thej did while In the mine was to dliect their attention to the damage dam-age wrought and more crltlcnllj ex-ninlno ex-ninlno Into tho possible hiding places of mote bodies. Prying about In tho fourth right heading In tho Klondike stnlc Inspector Evans cime nrross Rooms 13 and 20 distributed between which were tho thieo bodies which weie biought out nt 2 30 pm The bodies he found were In a bad state of deca. Tho search went on after tho threo were brought out and still continues THOUSANDS ABOUT TIT. All day thousnnds of men, women and children drawn thither out of morbid curlosltj, lingered about the low frame slructuie Their uppetlte apparently could not bo satisfied by the already vast horror Hundieds Mtnod In a baking sun nenrb opposite on tho other sldo of the Lonem lugh river where the cars came down fiom tho mine entij Most of these were Interestel for friends who were pos. tlblo victims Down below a quarter of a mllo the streets of Conemaugh Cit weic clogged with funeral tor- teS" CAUSE OP DISASTER It Is stated positive!! tonight by John neulllck who wns the tiro boss of the seventh district nnd who was In the Klondike mine at the time of the accident that tho disaster was caused l,v blasting settlnB off the lire damp Mr Retulllrk, who la nt Coiieiuaugh hospital is improving rapidly and hoi es by the (list of next week to be nbo to go back Into the mine und prove that his statement Is conect I'rlends of the dead mlneis and em-plosees em-plosees who lost their lives on Thurs. lav morning havo been goli g over the list of dead with a vlow of learning tho number of widows nnd fatherless children heio nnd who will bo made helpless by Ihe catastrophe. Accord-nB Accord-nB to tho most reliable data there aro U widows and 13S ehlldien. Of th s number there are five widows mil II ehlldien living In the oil country. I Ive of the widows nro brides of a few months and epic, widows and CI children chil-dren are survivors of American om. rlojes of the mines who are numbered among tha dead MANY NEWCOMERS There arc a number of dead who nre comparatively newcomers to th' country coun-try aid to Johnstown who are believed ti have wives and ehlllrcn In th" oil cjuntr and vvh wci txp ting ti hnve come ov r here whin this had rimed suflluent tuonej to ia t r tlnlriassage 'nine nf the i,iu,g in. n who weie unmsrrlet were also known to be the soli sin port of mothers and sisters who could well be numbeitd among the helpless ones to bi looked after. |
