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Show v V V V w v v vs CORPSE OF MAN ' HO LEFT LAST I MESSAGE LOST Mine Rescue Squad Finds It Has 46 and Not 47 Bodies STONE FOR MONUMENT Embalming Fluid Rushed to Temporary Morgue In Airplanes JACKSON". Calif.. Sept. 21. (By, The Associated Pnessj. One Body was missing today among those of tho 47, gold miners iho perished from gas marly a mile down in .the Argonaut' shaft By a Uiim of fate It was the; body of William Fcssel, the man who wrote on the rock with the srnokc of; his miner's lamp a farewell messagei for all the doomed Al. Fesscl wrote' 'Gas getting bad Three o'clock " This was three hours atter thc mln is Were trapped by tho! fire above them. And It was Fe.ssel's, bony, mine offfeials announced early todry that vanished Only his dying message remained Wednesday night! Iieri the rescue crew o the I'nited' States bureau of mines checked their Hal i and found that but 4fi bo.Ji. - h id been removed from the vault they entered en-tered living. HOPE TO FLNTD BODY II was hoped to find Kissel's body! today It was believed possible that) h, evidently a leader of the stricken 'shift had crept from the chamber of. I'deajh to u higher level, hoping to finaj : some means of escape for his com-' rades The men from me bureau of, mines were certain, howcvei. that they counted -17 bodies when. Wea-nesday Wea-nesday night the gruesome discovery .... ,. r,, ..j. Th", consldi n d raon likely that Fessel's body was burled by a cave-In sinoe tho work of re- moval began. DEATH PAIN1 ESS Those who prepared the bodies for burial confirmed physicians' state-! mints that death was virtually pain-1 less ;nd came, perhaps, within two minutes after the wave of carbon monoxide gas swept over the victims.! Their faces were peaceful, as though: In sleep. Recovery Of .he bodies was slower than had been expected. Five undertakers under-takers went down into the Argonaut mine and their work of embalming d'etavod removal. At tho top of the Kennedy shaft three undertakers awaited the bodies and at the mill four others, two of them women, per-I per-I formed " otfice- WUJj SAVE STONE, SACRAMENTO. Cal., Sept 21 The Btato Industrial accident commlssioii ! h IS Instructions 10 CUt away and pr. serve that portion of the stone in the mine drift on which William Fessell ! burned with his lamp the only message mes-sage left by tho 47 miner who were victims e.f the tragedy at the Argonaut Imine. Clarense B. Jarvls, member ot the state board Of control, said the stone would be kept by Ihe stute in mi mory of the victims. Tho words written on the stout. Jarvls said, were: Gas retting oad. Three o dock. Below the flgur? '4" had been burned and a portion of the letter '('. Fes-Erll Fes-Erll Is believed to have succumbed to (he gas at that point. uuriwi s USED. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21 A new chapter to the usual annals of mine disasters wan written for the Argonaut Argo-naut mine fire at Jackson. Cal., as a result of the part played by the airplane air-plane So vital did flying become In tho work of attempting rescue that machines worn constantly whii ring between San Francisco and Jackson- From August 28 until today the army kept two machines In almost constant use in transporting mine and tote officials and supplies between the tWO points ( me cargo was 30 g i Hons of Whisky for the hard pushed r fcue crews and what ls expected to be the last car.,'0 was taken today (Vheil 300 pound i of embalming lluid for the bodie of the J7 victims left CrlSsy field at the Presidio. |