The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 17, 1915, Page 1

| z ¥ ‘ LGRAND JURY WITNESSES DISAPPEAR; PROSECUTOR IS FURIOUS: AST The Seattle Star Ass A Column of Snappy War News Today You'll find It on page 5, served up by the United Press from every theatre In the fight. Bi MS ae ea et ee a PAE HN ee Capes OF 18m ys: | Rain. &. shifting to 8. W. gal inane ond seven scarce { : The O The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News : sien at oaaraia ‘ mien Low. VOLUME 18. SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 17, 1915. ONE CENT cre: | ian ms ina cm >. PRAVENSDALE MOURNS ITS BURIED DEAD} 1g Up. Bodies of Miners 5 Killed i in Explosion; Believe 35 Dead | » Rescuers Brin L ; _ |Boalt Sees a Town of Sorrow; Women | Hover About Mouth of Mine to Claim Blackened Corpses of Their Husbands By Fred L. Boalt BY LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE RAVENSDALE, Nov. 17.—With only six bodies on the surface, with two or three men unaccounted for, and with 27 or 28 men still buried in the third level of the North- western Improvement company’s mine, wrecked by an explosion here yesterday after- noon, the total dead, it is believed, will be between 35 and 40. The six bodies, now lying in a temporary morgue near the mouth of the mine slope, were brought up last night and early this morning. Two of them were found on the second level. The bodies of T. J. Kane, mine forman; J. S. Davis, pump man, and Florence Martini, a man, cager, were found lying near the slope on the third level, early this morning. Martini’s body was torn in two by the force of the explosion. Part of it has not yet been recovered. \ Several of the bodies found on the second slope yesterday afternoon were torn and This photograph was taken at Ravensdale ten minutes after the explosion. Miners and townspeople are seen grouped around the mouth ef. the slope, which is Indicated by an arrow. Volunteer rescuers are preparing to descend into the mine, They did attempt it a few minutes; Mutilated. One man was without an arm, another without a leg. Pieces of coal and rock ir. were ven back ry umes. . . had been driven into other bodies. BlameKrausefor3 Men’sDisappearance wc suede Weis tocr serv ineeuth of te sat ste taing Slow token COC SME) as the rain fell on their drenched clothes. "SMILES AS HE IWOMEN ARRESTED IN CITY FIGHTS | Every time the cage comes up they start and shudder, then shrink back. As the bodies are brought up they are hastily wrapped in gunny sacking, to conceal RAID FREED AT 2 A. M. the curious crowd, and removed to a wooden building nearby, where they DENIES ALL | ON BAIL; DISAPPEAR! DOCTORS IN jertairccs on stretchers“ “eves 12 * wooden bailing nearby, where th CHARGES OF | prosecutor Landin ana tho CEPT PLAN 10 LET None of the rescuers was willing to predict how long it would be before the wreckage this occurrence. in the third level, 1,200 feet below the surface, could be cleared away sufficiently to re- |intended inquiry into the activity |, baum, attorney for pe pagrerimr abd baiting (ie wife ied to. have move the bodies scattered here and there at the various chutes, where the men were HIS CAPTORS gre Alaa ks eodag: Or a ee arian IN FANT DIE working when the explosion came. kad. cteed ta thavocmaty dail, ree erase cethatee ti far ee A report that the way was clear and that the bodies would be removed this forenoon Eptain of Detectives Charies|ished Menied as td Che purpose ot taking, toate testt-| GHEGAGO, | Nov. 17 oan wae later denied. The third level is still choked, and several days may be required be- Tennant is of the opinion Wednes day that Edward Krause of Ketchi » first thing Wednesday in the pe Hollenger's baby boy| fore the bodies are reached. It is considered certain that no more of the victims will be ight might be on sentence of ite mother,| * kan, Alaska, arrested here Monday leged opers nurses of the Ger.| found alive. Oe re aad oleae oo-| pase Je orien nat 2@| An dnquest is being planned for this afternoon on the six bodies recovered. tery surrounding the disappea oe tc a Eee aes into the world! Martin J. Flyzik, president of district No. 10, United Mine Workers; Ernest New- of three men, if he chose to s Tehant believes all three are dead » |O’Clock on warrants charging disor-| Veda Raynor an a ie |deriy conduct wald are the women being he Healy called « con. |sham, vice president; and William Short, secretary, arrived here today and will hold a ler to. decide | Conference this afternoon with the local union, in an attempt to determine the cause of 8 ference They are, William Christie, amal-; gran ay id witne: eee hevs' Lie iy peal and ~ oor ne a te : dec ¥ ines jail ney harged technical ow to compel the hospital to | Me siccis 0. Piaareet ofc r7,| with disorderly conduct.” form ‘an operation to save the in| the accident. Clarence Parker, state industrial insurance commissioner, was due to ar- u i. Moe, Jer whose oth 6 of the situation, | fant. ngau, and 0. E. Moe, under whore| n ts that many dis:| Found gullty of being a subnor lrive at 2 p. m. from Olympia. j : ‘ and who left Seattle In April, 1913, | operating here are/mal child, and sentenced to die be-| = J, J, Corey, head of the United States bureau of mine rescue, at the University of with A. H. Dahl, in a launch the so-called “police , the baby's life is| - : Pee i y two had purchased j% srk Re (oo: ody veturned ty 4, 2shington; Dave Botting, commissioner of mines for the operators, and James Bagley, Minas tise arriving n whether gambling houses ‘oxed of a score of hos | state Commissioner of mines, spent the night in the mine with rescuers, in a vain attempt unch, Di ted, nd and Dr. H. A. Haisel MR Taees Mace, and: revurned t0| no nurse voted to let|t determine the cause of the explosion. j : Seattle eS Without a moment’s warning the explosion crashed thru the mine at 1:30 p. m. Tues- For a time they corresponded, as| Dah! was looking after real would save the|day, with a report that was heard thruout the town. robably noth state consulted !n the matt f 1y, among them some that wer the iettors from Mon ceased, and| | “We didn't think It nocessar In recent gambling ratds | fn fe ite ming from Tons of earth caved in on the mine levels and heavy timbers were shattered into the | a sat t ' * te off pe tina on Sate Sane_e_SNA" Se eet eco fo See es. |epetas 6 a \kindli d. The work the third level were trapped, with no chance f him « mother wept and consented in ing wood. e workmen on e ar e pped, wl no chance for escape, Mitetd piace exo thet genera. ta REPRIEVE COR ~ ENGLAND JOINS I» ot aoana tee ethics.” ead, because of the mass of debris which rained down in front of them. ed } ne and th ¥ 1 all ; * *, Cluding personal letters and deods| ule Vea bicy Deadly gas fumes began pouring up the main slope and out of the mouth on the o property in name of 0. E p Gh Aa ae oe : pe a es cine ‘A W. W. SOUGHT WITH FRANCE al aoe ase” bere drama thin ourfevihin e Ce ee ee te onc po of people at the mouth * aggen-ong The health officer, John Robert. Jetter, supposedly fror cpa son, 4 wld refuse. a Of the mine. Wives and children, whose fathers were somewhere down in the hell pit, on Camano island | : : | automata!’ stood by with tragedy written on their faces and dumbly watched the hurried prepara- m coer sat ie WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.— BY WM. PHILIP SIMMS more than a year ago r Peter Hoffman! they ‘phy tions for rescue. A scrubby looking dog sneaked thru the crowd and took a position as near the It was PARIS, Nov, 17. French and A President Wilson today wired Ree ate fo Sul brother aoe er titan sevusmiea | Rritieh fighting forces are vir i» operation t¥ not yer |mouth of the slope as he dared, with his ears cocked expectantly. All night long he sat him to stay the execution of Joe | might, ant the utmost done to save) there, rushing forward every time the cage came up with exhausted rescuers, sniffing Hillstrom, |. W. W. poet and | countries’ armies have fought | == —— |each one, then retreating with his head and tail drooping dejectedly. fate: admitted writing it, at Moe's writer, slated to die before a | more or less independently eocest firing equed friday in Galt | Henceforth they Wil be guided ‘ A score of times he was kicked out of the way, but he sneaked back. His master was Written on Same Typewriter Lake City for murders commit- | by a single source—an inter. A Suit Sale down there, somewhere It became © v si ted th aye go allies war council Russia and eee i a : Gay chat “"With unaffected hesitation, | {taly will Join the combination tG h ’ All activities ceased in the town when the explosion was heard. The first relay of husband, Cioltaes ike Inmarance rio a ranamM § | rescuers, led by Mine Superintendent R. D. Scott, donned oxygen helmets, and stepped and whic aid the president's mes This store announces ||into the cage. Silently it dropped into the clouds of poison gas fumes. The crowd of P Pp &: ttle, and a letter | again venture to urge Sl, custots officials at Jur on your excellency the justice a readjustment sale in- | Watchers waited, conversing intermittently and in low tones. =. ther 6 bur » of and advisability, If possible, of volving their entire stock informing hem of th arr £ informin, ag! a thore resenaideration of the Soe ie AC iL of Suite. Most unusual A bell clanged after more than an hour, and presently the cage reappeared. The masa leeesannl lint Coo a Puce rt adie for this || crowd pressed forward. But the rescuers had returned alone. Others donned the hel- exaeuilt sttael. meer OD season © ne year are in . A Berkshire | Farid that the |ob atts, ct exesution, etter « tall effect. Full particulars, ||mets and descended. It was thus thruout the night. The rescuers worked in 90-minute San of Christie apparently were jed the case and found no cause for| strike combined sledgehammer || descriptions, prices, etc. ||relays—all but Frank Morgan, the blacksmith, whose brother, Edris, was among the en- comm 19 blows with five times the powe: i f i thei Penine of paper bearing both orig-| In thi the Utah governor] heretofore possible with the armion il i Bony 'S today, ||tombed miners. Morgan was in the first squad that descended, and he refused to come qnal signatures were found in|concurred, and the execution datejacting virtually independently of 5 om i os read a ise, sabes Krause’s effects was set for Friday, one another. ‘ (Continued on Page 7.)