Ogden Daily Standard | 1910-02-05 | Page 8 | St. Paul Mine Gives up Dead

ST. PAUL MINE filVESJJP DEAD Cherry, III., Feb. 4 The St. Paul mine today yielded the first of Its dead 9ince last. November, when tho bafta were sealed to exlingish the ' fire that killed nearly S.'iO miners. As a result Cherry is all excitement over the prospects of recovering other bodies. bod-ies. The body whs that of Maestro Lllrlo. 2o years He was identified by a wage receipt found in his coat. Llirio was unmarried, and his rolatlxes are , at Cardiff. III. The body was in good condition in spite of iiy three months' entombment in the gaseous chambers of the mine "0 feel below the surface. As the news of the removal of tho body spread through Cherry women filled the streets crying and talking exclted-I exclted-I ly, but the outburst was shortlived. ! The prospects for re-overy of other j I bodies is none too promising. To get I at the 32 bodies said to be In the bottom bot-tom level 2.000,0(o gallons of water must be pumped out and lo reach the fi2 txidies in Ihe east part of Ihe second sec-ond level h now passageway must be cut through solid coal for at least l.'O feet. Pumping and tunneling will begin tomorrow. It Is said lb.it the Ore Is now shut up safely in the cast side of I tho mine,