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PAGE TWO THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON TUESDAY, SEPTEMRF.R SHORTLY PERISHED AFTER DISASTER (Continued from Pase One.) shift boss took two men and went to investigate. They found the shaft afire at the 3600 foot level, chanced death from gas and were carried through the fire to the top of the mine. They began I work of fire fighting which pre Ben ted merger 'into one of rescue for the men below, for the fire blocked the shaft and prevented the escape of the miners. Men came from all over the west to offer their services, the curious fellowship of miners bringing hearty offers of service from all who could get to jack- son. Mining companies in distant states, even in Mexico, telegraph ed proffers of assistance. The Kennedy Mining company, oper ators of an adjoining shaft, sunk the bitterness of a lawsuit in its willingness to be of service and loaned all its property and Iacll Hies to the work of rescue. Hard Work of Rescuers For many weary days, disap pointed some times by unexpect ed difficulties and heartened some times by equally unexpected bits of good luck, rescue crews drove through the choked tunnels which had once connected the two mines or battered at the rock .separating one of the Kennedy's' drifts from the Argonaut's 4200 foot level Early yesterday a drill' was driv en through the last barrier of rock into the Argonaut. Sweating shoulders and un- breakable wills drove steel picks at the rock until this hole had been enlarged enough to permit a man to pass. Five men made a hasty unauthorized exploration of part of the Argonaut, seeking sur vivors at the imminent risk of thoir own lives. The opening was enlarged so that a rescue crew could pass, and all day explora tions went on without any result. The levels were clear, there was no sign of any miner left in them, either dead or alive. The rescue men, hampered by their oxygen helmets, and the heat of the un derground workings, turned their attention to exploring the cross cuts and driftB leading from the tunnels already traversed. In one they found a bulkhead that had not been there when the miners went below that fatal midnight three weeks ago. All Killed by Gas Hope rose anew at this evi dence that some, at least of the entombed men bad not died an in stant death from the gases thrown off by the fire in the shaft and the rescuers pressed on. The? found another bulkhead not built of planks and timbers and stuffed with torn clothing like the first, but erected of earth, rock and debris. It was pitiful, gaping in places so that rescuers could see through it, but it check ed the air currents and the men in the oxygen helmets halted be fore afraid to tear It down while the air before It was poisonous lest they thereby cause sudden death to any who might be alive beyond it. Hope stood at its highest peak when this second bulkhead was found, and from that height It made Its greatest plunge. Before those who waited abovo for news of their loved ones knew even tl.t the rescuers had broken thru the bulkhead, word came that the bodies of 42 men had been found and counted. Not long af ter word came up that the other five also had 'been found dead. City Takes Blow Calmly Jackson took the blow calmly, and presently found comfort in the sure knowledge, gained from notes left by two of the men and from the reports of rescuers re garding the men's work before theydied, that a quick, merciful death had come to them Instead of the agonies of starvation. There was no lingering In dark ness 3000 feet below sea level. The gas came, then lethargy, then oblivion. Record scrawled on paper by one man and scratched on a tim ber by another, showed they had lived but little more than throe hours after erecting their pitiful barricades. Saddest of all, was the mute record of the bare beginning of s third bulkhead when gas had driven them from the scene of the second. Identification will be difficult The length of time since " they died, the temperature of their cas ual tomb, the lack of the cloth they had torn off to stuff into the cracks of their bulkhead, combined to remove from most of the bodies any distinguishing characteristics. For Kilters Dependents The Red Cross has received a fund of J 8000 for the miners' de pendents and it is estimated that where a miner left a widow or child the California state com pensation, insurance fund will pay an average of approximately $4200 to dependents. The Argo naut Mining company had insur ed its employes in the state fund. There is some need among rela tives of some of the victims, how ever. Red Cross officials said $10,- 000 was provided by the Argo naut company for temporary re lief. The local chapter of the Red Cross spent much of that sum in maintaining three temporary hos pitals; in supplying the needs of miners' families and in providing iooa ana comtorts lor rescue crews. . Minister to Bereaved A feature of the Red Cross' merciful mission was the assign ing of Its members to the consola tion of bereaved families. Last night and early today each of the families of the 18 married miners among the 47 victims had with it a woman visitor to speak words of sympathy and encouragement. A revision in California mining safety laws will be urged in the next legislature, according . to Fletcher Hamilton, state mineral ogist. He said he thought it would be feasible to have inde pendent exits and to hare under ground safety stations with a sep arate source of air and supplied with rood and water. EIVE CANDIDATES F OR BISHOPRIC OF E EVANS APPOINTED TO SALEM PULPIT Portland, Or., Sept. 19. An nouncements of the appointments of pastors for the 22 United Brethren churches. in the jurisdic tion of the Oregon conference were made yesterday, marking the close of the 69th annual gather ing of the conference delegates here. Dr. II. Oixon Boughter will be retained as president of Philo math college, while I. E. Caldwell will be the missionary to Porto Rico. Appointments of the pastor to the various churches in the Ore gon conference are as follows: Amboy, Rev. C. P. Blanchard; Beaver, Rev. W. O. Woolever; Coos river, Rev. G. E. Wood; Co quille, Rev. S. P. Andrus; Everett, Wash., Rev. J. D. Hammer; Hazel Green, Rev. Leila Luckey; Hope well, Rev. W. N. Blodgett; Irving, Rev. A. J. Smith; Manor, Rev. C. E. Lambert; North Bend, Rev. G. E. Wood; Philomath, Rev. J. D. Nisewonder; Philomath circuit, Rev. C. T. Burns; Portland, First church. Rev. E. A. Elliott; Port land, second church. Rev. G. K. Hartman; Portland, third church, Rev. E. O. Shepard; Portland, fourth church, Rev. B. Robs Evans; Salem, Rev. George Chap man; Seattle, Rev. G. L. Bender; The Dalles, Rev. E. F. Wiggle; Tillamook, Rev. W. O. Woolever; Vancouver, Rev. W. L. Blessing; Wapinitia, Rev. J. I. Parker. Portland, Sept. 19. Bishops of the Episcopal church set aside rules and precedent yesterday and made nominations for bishop of the missionary districts of east ern Oregon and Haiti in open ses sion. Two bishops and five promi nent clergymen were nominated for the eastern Oregon district and four were nominated for the post in Haiti. Rev. Thomas Jen kins, rector of St. David's church of Portland"; was one of the nom inees for the Oregon district. The men nominated to succeed Bishop Paddock, together with the sponsors who first proposed their names, were: Right Rev. William P. Remington, suffragan bishop of South Dakota, by Bish op Granville G. Bennett, Duluth; Rev. William A. R. Goodwin, rec tor of St. Paul's church, Roches ter, N. Y., by Bishop Robert C. Jett, .southwestern Virginia; Rev. Benjamin D. . Dagwell, rector of Ascension church, Pueblo, Colo., by Bishop Paul MatthewB, New Jersey; Rev. Edwin M. Cross, rec tor of St. John the Evangelist church, St. Paul, Minn., by Bishop William F. Faber, Montana; Right Rev. Paul Jones, resigned bishop without jurisdiction, by Bishop Brewster, Maine; Rev. Thomas Jenkins, rector of St. Da vid's, Portland, Or., by Bishop William A. Leonard, Ohio; Very Rev. J, Wilmer Gresham, dean of the cathedral at San Francisco, by Presiding Bishop Tuttle. Those nominated for bishop of the missionary district of Haiti were: Rev. Walter Mitchell, rec tor at Porter Military academy, Charleston, S. C; Rev. William S. Claiborne, professor at Sewanee, Tenn.; Archdeacon H. R. Carson. Panama Canal zone, and Rev. John Albert Williams, rector of St. Phillip's church, Omaha, Neb. IlsfiirllI GAR ETTEAp 2 itIs TOASTED It's toasted. 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Reaching the drowing man, she succeeded after a desperate ef fort in dragging him far enough ashore to : get his head out of the water just as General White reach ed the scene. The man proved to be Xieutentnt Dahl, who had slipped into the river and striking his head on the rocks had been rendered unconscious. He would have drowned had not Doro thy seen him and bravely gone to the rescue. It was a strenous task for a 10-year-old girl, waist deep in the ewift stream, to drag a 170- pound drowning man to the bank. The dove won't build in the cannon's mouth until something is provided to fill the other mouths. Nerve Shocks Cause Gas Any form of excitement that shocks the delicate nerves of- the stomach will disturb the function of that orsran and produce gas. Anger, fright, grief and worry, all have an evil effect upon the di gestive system, hence, for want ot better term, aociors can un condition "nervous dyspepsia." 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