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Ill-Fated Mononsrah Mines Slowly Commence to Give Up Bodies of heir Neiycf5(M Victim Councilmanic Pageant and Feast Will Mark Inauguration of Greater Forty Passengers Sustain Injuries When- a Runaway Street Car Dashes From the Track 8 SECTIONS LARGEST AND GREATEST SUNDAY PAPER ISSUED IN PITTSBURG SBURG PRESS. THE PITT 480 COLUMNS LARGEST AND GREATEST SUNDAY PAPER ISSUED IN PITTSBURG PITTSBURG. SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 8, 1907 FIVE CENTS ESTABLISHED 1884 PICTURES TAKEN AT THE EXPLOSION-WREGKED MQNONGAH MINES IF -4 jjHBMnTaWanannnnannannn it4M rWk i Monongah Miue No. 6, Where the Explosion Started. Monongah Mine No.

8, Showing Band of Rescuers. TR OLLE WRECK To Make Officials Captives ON NOR TI-I SIDE 1 ttTV 111 fl flft1P Horror Beggars Language Words Are Almost Lacking to Depict Heartrending Scenes Among Women at Mouths of Ill-Fated Mines Motorman Loses' Control on qJJJPJJJ vronn uorriioii 1 1 ir nwamia Young Doctor Of Homewood Will City and Old Pittsburg Councils March on North Side Hall Tomorrow Night Receive Surrender Now Under I Martial Law Grade Car Jumps Track and Turns on Side Is Missing All But 15 the Men in Pits Are Thought to Have Perished Miserably Comparatively Few of Dead Are Recovered. Unconfirmed Rumor That 125 Bodies Are Located William Blumenschein Peeps DUE TO THE BLOWING OUT OF CONTROLLER Into Mother's Room Evening Federal Troops Arrive in Nevada Town and Are Given Cor dial Reception POOR CREATURES ARE NEARLY MAD WITH WOE A MARCH OF TRIUMPH SCHEDULED TO FOLLOW of November 24, Pays Visit REGIMENT OF MILITIA LIKELY TO BE RUSHED TO SCENE to Office, Then Disappears Occupants Are Thrown Into Struggling Mass Victims Taken to Homes and Hospital One May Die NO REASON IS KNOWN WHY HE SHOULD LEAVE By nlted Pren. Goldlield. New, December 7.

Goldfield and the Goldlield mining district are under martial law tonight and in full control of United States regulars sent here' from San Francisco at the request of Governor Sparks, who, on representations made by the mine owners, feared violence at the hands of striking miners or their sympathizers. The first detachment of troops, irl T)r William Blumenschein. of Dashing down Perrysville ave Homewood, lias disappeared. -He was last seen November 24, on nue at a terrific rate and beyond i and arrived on a special I train at 2 clock this afternoon, the the night of which he casually BY B. N.

SPARKS, Maff Correspondent. Fairmont, W. December 7. Faces agonized, tear-stained and grief-stricken, haggard with woe, gazed into the smoking death pits at the Monongah mines last night until nerves -were exhausted and the fainting women and shuddering men drew back to give others a chance to see the grewsome dead bodies brought? torth from the cavernous depths. No mine disaster in the annals of America has brought forth such harrowing, soul-shocking scene.

of human griet and anguish as the fearful explosion at the Fairmont Coal mines. Hardly had the rumble of the explosion passed away and the trembllng-s of the earth ceased before fully women bade his mother good-bye, went to his office, attended to some Swinging along to the strains of martial music, the official army of the old City of Pittsburg will invade the old City of Allegheny tomorrow night, and march to the Cit) Ilali square, where formal capitulation of the old Allegheny officials will take place. They will he captured and carried in triumph to the municipal citadel of the old city of Pittsburg without the firing of a shot. The foregoing words were not used yesterday by Common Councilman Hugh Ferguson, of the Seventeenth ward, to describe one of the events that will precede the formation of the greater city councils tomorrow night, but they carry out the idea he expressed. Mr.

Ferguson applied a little Scotch brevity in telling what is to take place. Mr. Ferguson is a hard-working member of the committee on arrangements for the features tomorrow night, and he declared that the Pittsburg councilmen had decided to take no chances and would march over to the North Side City Hall and make sure of the members of the old Allegheny councils making an appearance at Pittsburg City Hall. The old Pittsburg councilmen will Continued on 1'iiKe Four,) and then stepped out into the nigh. Since that moment a mystery darker an human control, a I'errysvule avenue car, at 2:15 o'clock, yesterday afternoon struck the right-angled turn on the steep grade at the corner of Perrysville avenue and the Federal street extension, Korth Side, jumped the track and turned completely over, injuring about 40 people and burying its passengers in the wreckage of broken glass and splintered wood.

and more impenetrable than the blackest nicrVit has enfolded him, and effectually defeated all attempts of anxious friends and heart-broken relatives to determine his whereabouts. No earthly reason for a voluntary exile on the part of the young doctor is known, so it was stated yesterday. He was barely 21 years of age, and had but recently entered upon a pecul I and children were rushing to the srue- some tombs that had swallowed their iarly promising practice, being established in commodious, well appointed of-4 Continued on Page Four.) dear ones. Soon they were packed about (Continued on Page Thirty-One. second detachment arriving shortly aftor 5 o'clock.

Long before noon the roads leading to the Tonopah and Goldlield station, a milts and a half from the town of Goldfield. were filled with thousands of men, women and children, all eager to catch a glimpse of soldiers. It might have been circus day in Goldfield from the air of holiday excitement that characterized the crowds. The spirit of visaged war held no place in their caclulations. They went on foot, on horse and in busses, broken down vehicles of every' description, smart traps and huge touring cars.

The arrival of the train was greeted with loud cries, tooting of automobile horns and the uhrill blasts of whistles from the mills and mines. While the plana are not given out by the officers in command, it is understood that two detachments of 10O men each will be camped in the district near the, Combination mill, and one company will be stationed in town. The heartiness with which the troops were received today and the state of peace that has reigned up to late tonight exploded -the predictions of the past week that he arrival of the soldier would be followed by an outbreak. King Oscar Said to Be In Last Agony BY BEVERLEY N. SPARKS, tmtt Correspondent.

Monongah, W. YaM December 7. of awful horror, such as the brush of no painter -ould faithfully portra-, cluster about in the dark and gassy depths of the Monongah mines Xos. and 8, of t'hc Fairmont Coal Co. tonight.

Scattered about, amid the wrenched and shattered timbers that supported the wrecked walls of the? mines, are the maimed, scarred and scorched bodies of nearly 400 minors, who were yesterday exulting in the glory of manly strength. Out of the 400 men known to be in the mines during thfc disastrous, explosion t-iiat turned them into blackened, flaming pits of direful death yesterday morning, 15 have been located and are known to be safe, but 391 are still unaccounted for, with the exception of the 10 dead removed early this morning and this afternoon. 1 his estimate is far too low, however, if General Manager L. L. aMlone's statement, made late tonight, is correct, Mr.

Malone said that, according to his list, about men met death in the mines, lie said there were in tin; mine at the tinie of the explosion -I IS minors. Added to this, he said, were about 100 men employed at? other work. At 2:20 o'clock the almost irreeognizable remains of twti miners were brought forth from the grewsome slope of mine No. 6, but they were not all, for the coal cars also conveyed the torn fragments of three other unfortunates who were caught in the holocaust and scattv red to various sections of the workings. The rescuers, although they have Avorked long and arduously, have been irnable t'o penetrate to the lower workings of the mines, where lies the greater portion of their dead comrades.

They have combatted the deadly black damp and struggled on over obstacles that would have daunted and defeated less courageous souls, but t'heir efforts up to late tonight had been fruitless, as far as securing a satisfactory reward of their search has been concerned. Reports of the number ot bodies recovered vary. This is due to t'he fact that it is bejieved that the rescuers have found numerous bodies and brought them near to the entries, but have refrained from bringing them out owing to the vast throngs of people, numbering full? 10,000, that gathered about the wrecked slopes this evening. It is said that fully 12. bodies are thus hoarded back out of public sight, but a continuation of this report is impossible to secure, as the rescuers and mine officials are silent and refuse to state just how many bodies have been located.

The stupendou reality of t'he horror has not been fullv srrasned tin- iuhnhi-' Screaming with pain and terrorized, men. women and children made futile attempts to rid themselves of the human weight, which pinned them down, iftiore them and all around were sharp pointed glass which pricked cruelly their flesh as they were dragged from the struggling mass. The impact of the car had hurled the passengers to the forward end, where they lay, a tangled heap of bleeding human beings. The runaway was caused by the resist JVort Side WrecK. Attracts Great Crotvd ance control blowing out, making it im possible for Motorman Edward Cross on to exercise any control over the car.

Mrs. William J. eisser, one of the in jured, probably wll die. Some of the victims were hurried to their homes and others to the Alle gheny General Hospital. The follow ing is a list of the injured: E.

II. LEWIS, aged years. No. 2145 Perrysville avenue, Northside. com-t Continued on Patce Four.) SENDS NEWS TO By trotted Preaa.

London. December 7. KJntr Oscar ia b. lleved to be in his jast agony, according to a- Central News, dispatch from Stockholm. The royal family and members THE GOVERNOR or tne ministry are at his bedside.

Stockholm, Sweden, December 7. King Oscar's condition tonight is hopeless. lie lies for the most part in a state of coma. Occasionally he rallies, but only for a ali.J nese intervals or consclous- lniei 0T Uepartment 0l mineS ness are growing more and more lnfre- Savs the Situation Is Now! His doubt if the monarch OdVO UIC OlluailUII Id niUW Jcan through the night. The bishop or fitocknoim has administered th Well in Hand tants of the Fairmont mining regions as yet.

They are dumfounded andVtunned andf church's last rites. Members of the rnval BY B. N. SPARKS, aff Correspondent. Mononaph.

W. December R. 12:3 family and the chief representatives of the Swedish Church in Stockholm are at the bedside. Tiie king has been ill for several days. He suffered first from facial paralysis! Then he became a victim of insomnia.

Symptoms of acute kidnev trouble recently appeared. Last night his heart action began to alarm his physicians. "Thanks" is the only word Oscar has uttered tonight, spoken in appreciation of some trifling attention by- one of the doctors. 11 seems uexonu ineir compreiiension to grasp that? nearly 400 lives have been snuffed out like trie weakening flame of a candle in a strong draught. It is.

possible that thj militia may be called upon to control the situation existing about the mines tonight. Although the vast throngs have been orderlv. as a it has been found impossible to regulatv their movements, especiallv in the vicimtv of the mines, where they hamper, to a more or less degree, the effective work of 'the rescuers. After Car Was Righted. Kfesllk! f' It I a.

m. The following telegram has just been sent from here: "Governor W. M. O. Dawson: "Have established local headquarters of 1 li.

vt-d in Fairmont tonight ANOTHER DELAY IN GAS LAWSUIT mining department at Monongah. I have spent seven hours today in Monongah mines Nos. 6 and 8: and advanced two miles in No. 6 mine and about 1.O0O feet in No. 8 mine.

Mrs. Taft Dead. Millbury, December 8 Mrs. Louisa M. Taft, mother of the secretary of war, dlfd shortly after midnight.

Av Governor W. M. O. inina disaster. I pon investigation, how- ever, it developed that the noise and lv, muiu in rt-aainess ror oy Captain iunsrld l.

Neely, has, service at tho jf uch police duty is rill "Five district inspectors are here, and seven others are expected ton'ght. A uwmgr to the riotous scenes on the force of eight inspectors is divided into relays, to accommodate the rescuers. The management of the mine is well provided with willing workers, and officials THE PRESS BY MAIL. streets ot Fairmont last night and I the drunken orgies indulged In bv (many until far into the forenoon hours. Mayor W.

K. Arnett this afternoon requested all the saloonkeepers to close I at o'clock. For the first time Jn the history of Fairmont tiiis was done. have the situation well in hand. At 7 o'clock they had recovered IS bodies.

"The latest statement of the payroll I I clerk is that aJU will cover the list of fa- talit'es. quaking were solely due to a small explosion in the boiler of the water-heating apparatus and the frightened guests soon retired to their rooms and forgot the incident, although the nerves of more than one who was unduly impressed by the frightful holocaust at Monongah were some time getting settled. As hour after hour goes by and the rescuers return to the surface of the slopes, the anxious women gathered about the openings become more hysterical and the pitiable scenes of grief and anguish increase. Wringing their hands, crying and laughing in alternate paroxysms, tearing their hatr and scratching their faces, the women whose loved ones" are far down in the deadly shafts wander up and down, moaning piteously and shrieking like maniacs, pleading that (font laiied ob Face Six "The explosion appears to have been ttie Uiiuor men readily assenting to the mayor's request, and it was impossible for those who so inclined to secure a drink in the citv tonight. This precaution alone is believed to have CLOUDY AND WARMER.

"Soinr daya moat be dark and dreary, muaed Ionarf ellovr, and be knew what he vraa talking? about. One would almoat think the frreat poet had been a native of Greater lMttabnrg from hla Intimate acquaintance with one ell-matte alternations. Today la ached uled to be not exactly- -ret, bat tt will be dark and. cloudy, aa4 probably dreary, too, for last week" a erlap wintry atmoapbere will arlve way to warn wtada. general throughout the two mines.

Arguments in the city's motion to have experts examine the books of the Philadelphia Co. in connection with the equity suit to prevent that company from raising the price of gas, which was scheduled to be heard In Common Pleas Court No. 2, went over until next week. The postponement was allowed by the court on account of the fact that Attorney Edwin II. Smith, of Reed, Smith.

Shaw Beal, who represent the Philadelphia was busy trying a case ia the United States Circuit Court. In ree many Inquiries In rmard ta, orilrriag Tbr re! l.y mail. The I'rei vrNbe It known thnt no additional charts 1st made he a Nuhscriptioa for either I he daily or Snnday Press ordered stent by mall to any pari of the 1 nlted tate. The I T- pa the poMBer. The nub-iTiber paj jus.t the nmiie 1" it the paper were to he dellyered enrrter.

"Sufficient exploration haa not been made to warrant an opinion as to the averted numerous instances of disor cause or tne explosion. It will reauire several days to reach. all the bodies. "The after-damp Is such that no hone Is entertained of the recovery of any live der and possible fatal bloodshed. Early this morning the sleepers at Skinners Tavern, the ltading hotel of Fairmont, were startled out of their slumbers by a rumbling, shaking shock that was at first believed to be another person.

JAMES W. FAtTL. Car Lying Against Trolley Pols "Chief of the Department of Mines.".