Tank's Poetry
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united states mine rescue association
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Shortly after 4 o'clock an official of the Harco Company said he believed only seven or eight men were caught underground. He said that of the approximately 450 men at work, all but a few were warned and got out in time. He was unable to say in what manner the men believed caught are held. He described the explosion as caused by gas. Those miners rescued and who are expected to recover are William Sheely, William Cole, Ed Thomas, and four others whose names were not yet learned. Volunteer rescue teams were organized by miners but their efforts were futile as blackdamp drove them back from the section of the mine where the men were entombed. Eleven Bodies Found Waterloo Times-Tribune September 1, 1921 A check of the miners at 5:30 o'clock this evening showed that 436 miners had entered the shaft this morning and that all but those dead had been returned to surface. Warnings after the explosion by miners in a nearby shaft probably saved the lives of those who were sent to the surface. The crew of 17 miners was engaged in working a new coal bed near an old shaft, which had been walled in, when the driller exploded a charge of dynamite which crushed the old vein walls, and entombed himself and fellow workers, according to the reports from the mine. The bodies of the dead men are in local morgues tonight and await identification by their respective families. A special train bearing a United States bureau car was dispatched to the mine within an hour after the accident and was in charge of D. J. Parker, chief of the division of mine rescue cars and stations of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, who was conducting an inspection trip in this vicinity for H. Foster Bain, director of the United States Bureau of Mines. The deceased:
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