Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 244, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 February 1925 — Page 2

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MINE PRESIDENT NARROWLY ESCAPED DEATH IN SHAFT

1 NEED MOE air; word from SHAFTWORKERS Rescuers in Entry No, 3 Try to Take Out Twenty Bodies, Tines Staff Correspondent SULUVAN, Ind., Feb. ?J.—Rescue workers, equipped with gas masks from the Knox County Operators' Association Station, went into entry No. 3 of the City mine today in an effort to remove the bodies of approximately twenty men entombed there. Brattices, airtight petitions, were being erected to prevent air from short circuiting Into cross cuts in order that clean air might be forced into the rooms where the bodies are. Eighteen rooms have been searched in the entry with three more to be reached. Two of the twenty men are believed to be buried under roof falls and will have to be dug out. "We need more air,” was the only positive statement A. C. Dally, State mine Inspector, would make. He said rescue squads with their gas masks may bring In more bodies in an hour or It might take all day. Excited throngs which threatened to stop rescue work Friday after the blast occured, were held back today by ropes and board fences hastily erected. Crowds milled outside the barriers. All autos, exectplng those bearing jrellef equipment or*rescue TYorkers, were stopped three-quarters of mile away. The road to the mine was a solid line of miners and curious onlookers.

ONE-WAY TRAFFIC 0. K. Inspector Glenn Cites Need for Uniform Speed. Slight difficulties, as it was expected, have arisen in connection with establishment of the one-way traffic system on Capitol Ave. and Meridian St., Michael Glenn, inspector of traffic, said today. > Chief trouble lies in lack of uniform speed and failure of motorists to understand the proper way of making left turns. Glenn said it is not necessary to circle silent policemen in making left turns. He advised drivers to pull away from the center lane when contemplating left turns in order not to slow the procession of cars already on the left. ' "Not a single complaint has been recelvod. Business men have commended the plan because of the fact that a direct run can be made to and f;om downtown offices without stop;- Glenn said. 'OUT OF FRYING PAN—’ Ex-Fireman Injured in Blast at Cleaninr Plant. Bv Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., Feb. 21. Russell Thomas, 28, v, ho resigned as driver for the fire department to be relieved of hazardous work, was blown through the door of Wood & Cos., dry cleaners, in an explosion Friday night. Thomas was opening a tumbler to remove clothes when static electricity fired the naphtha fumes. The blast hurled him into the next room with his clothing afire. A wall of the building was wrecked. Thomas may lose his <eyesight. LOCAL STUDENT GRIEVES Girl Called From College By Brothers Death in Mine. Timet Staff Correspondent SULLIVAN, Ind.. Feb. 2'.—Miss Dona L&ughlln, a student at the Central Business College at Indianapolis. rushed here Friday when she learned of the mine disaster, to be met at the station by her brother John, who told her that another brother, Earl Laughlin, was among: the dead. Thomas Laughlin, mine boss, father, was one of the survivors. DR. BRYAN WILL SPEAK University President to Address Big Meeting Audience. The last "Ladles’ day” of the season will be observed at the Big Meeting Sunday at English’s Theater when Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president of the Indiana University, will speak on "Nature, and Human Nature,” Dr. Bryan is a Big Meeting favorite, and men affiliated with the movement voted to make the program "Ladies' day” when told he had been obtained. With the opening of doors at 8 o'clock the Big Meeting orchestra will give a thirty-minutes concert, rendering patrlotio airs in honor of the anniversary of the birth of George Washington. Vested choir of the Episcopal Church of the Advent will sing special selections.

Fists to Eyes Timet Staff Correspondent SULLIVAN. Ind., Feb. 21. • Bodies of miners being taken out of City mine, wrecked by an explosion Friday, have their arms upraised and their handa clenched tightly across the eyes and forehead, indicating efforts of miners to protect themselves from flames and gases. O. C. Thomas, weighmaater, stands at the entrance, resblutely facing the grim task of prying down the stiff arms to identify the dead. The elbows and forearms of the dead are in many cases lacerated, indicating the unfortunate mine workers atterdbted to crawl to safety before death overtook them.

Like Cyclone Men in Tipple Say ‘Tremendous Wind Came Up Shaft, Holding Us in/ Auer Blast

n imea Start Correspondent SULLIVAN, Ind., Feb. 21.— "1t felt like a cyclor.e coming up the shaft.” . This was the nr,it impression of O. C. Thomas, chief weighmaster of City mine near here, where a terrific explosion Friday trapped fiftyone men, probably killing all of them. Thomas, with Bruce Lowry, weight boss, wf.B in the tipple when the explosion occurred. "A tremendous wind came up the shaft,” Thomas said today. “It blew dirt In our faces and took us oft our feet. For a time we could not get out. We were held in the tipple hy the force of the air.” When the force of the blast subsided, the men called for help. Thy found the cage was not working and Glen Morgan, carpenter, went down the 294-foot shaft on a ladder. He was the first to reach the bottom. Then William Hartly, blacksmith, was lowered on a rope. They found the cage had been damaged when coal cars had been blown against It. By using a car wheel as a counter-balance the shaft was repaired and rescue workers lowered into the gas-filled pit.

‘Kiss Them Goodby’ Then Hope!

Si— IULLIVAN, Ind., Feb. 21. A spectre of dread shadows __J lives of all miners’ wives. This, according to Mrs. Elizabeth Sheedy, widow of Chf rles Sheedy, miner, 38, whoso body Is still In the clutches of the wrecked City mine, with those of thirtyfour others, is the reason why mine disaster victims are dispalying such fortitude. Few have gone to the entrance of the mine today. Some are waiting at downtown morgues for latest word form the rescue workers. "We live our lives in constant fear," Mrs. Sheedy said. “We kiss them goodby and hope.

WOMEN FACE LOSS STOICALLY SILENT Turn Away and Go Home From Mine When Told Dread HP Truth of Catastrophe.

Times Start Correspondent SULLIVAN, Ind., Feb. 21.—The entire mining community here la In mourning. The terrific blast at City mine Friday left two score of widows and narely 100 fatherless. But the people are taking It with the stoicism that marks almost any mining district at time of disaster. The miners and their families work continuously In the shadow of danger. Every miner and every

Sullivan S r ' ” “IULLIVAN, the stricken Indiana town where sympathetic eyes of the Nation turned today, is a thriving county seat town of about 4,000 population, situated close to the cefiter of the Indiana coal belt. It Is about twenty-five miles dhuctly south of Terre Haute and is on the Dixie Bee highway.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

(It you spot tuny ot these numbers notify the police or The Times, Main 3500. The owner may dr, as much for you sometime.! Persons who reported automobiles st len to police today were: Everett Cannon, 902 N. Belmont Ave., Oldsmobolle. stolen from garage at residence, no license plates. Raymond Walker, 412 Bernard Ave., Chevrolet, license No. 504929, stolen from Capitol Ave. and Washington St. Ernest Kirk, 2042 Highland PI., Hupmoboile, license No. 503778, stolen from in front of home. B. W. Bissell, 696 Middle Dr., Woodruff PL, Ford, license No. 198085, stolen from north side of Statehouse. Frank Holsaffle,'Martinsville, Ind., Dodge truck, stolen from Stock Yards. John Rothrock, prosecutor at Monticello, Jnd., Ford, license No. 408806, stolen from Meridian and Ohio Sts. BACK HOME AGAIN Owners of automobiles reported found today were: Charles Bell, Pennville, Int"., Ford, found at State and Bates Sts. Donald Noman, 282 N. Jefferson Ave., Ford, found at Massachusetts Ave. and St. Clair Sts. Jones-Whitaker Sales Cos., Chevrolet, found at Capitol Ave and Ohio Bt. “Tiger” Charges Placed / John McClurs, 82, oolored, of 753 Roach St., was arrested today on s blind tiger charge growing out of a raid made on his house Feb. IS, when four gallons of white mule were found. McClure escaped when the raid was made.

View of City Mine at Sullivan, Ind.

M*M TRAPPED u2K '' '' IN WfifJE I \ \ EKmN3HAPT •' / * rvns3 s, 4 cuo “° A* IfcOO+t. r - - - N ' lX* A %\.r%°c*o LOMS ~~ Ne 2 Cics.ro Wfg* '*• fV "" r *vn No.I Ctoseo ITHIS IS A VIEW OF CITY MINE AT SULLIVAN AS IT WOULD APPEAR LOOKING STRAIGHT DOWN FROM AN AIRPLANE IF THE EARTH WERE STRIPPED AWAY. ONE THEORY OF THE LXPLOSION IS THAT MINERS BROKE THROUGH INTO THE OLD MINE AT EITHER POINT “A" mmmmrnmmm or POINT "B.” IT IS THOUGHT THAT WHEN THEY BROKE THROUGH GAS FROM THE OLD MINE MAIN SHAFT FLOODED THE MINE IN WHICH THE EXPLOSION OCCURRED. 2QB *H I LONG LINES PASS 1 Fatalism

"I kissed Charlie goodby at fiveminutes after six Friday morning, and said ‘So long.’ f “He said, 'Ta ta.' He never would say goodby. He believed It might be bad luck. "For a while I war hopeful af ter word of the explosion came and I learned that he was there, caught Inside. He served six months overseas and when he came back said mining wasn’t half so dangerous as over there. "But now, I guess there is no use.” A tear glistened In her eyes which until then bad only been dry and sad. And she turned away.

miner’s family knows that some day disaster msy overtake them. When it does they take it philosophically. Wives of miners, made widows by the blast, crowded to the mouth of the shaft when news of the explosion reached them. There they found O. C. Thomas, who- knows every miner by his first name, examining the crushed and crumpled bodies as they were brought to the surface, peering into their faces and checking off their names. “Is Jack dead?" a woman would ask i him. Thomas turned away. He could view the bodies without a show of emotion, but he would not face the sorrow of the women. But they persisted. They pulle<] at his coat and pleaded with him to tell them. "Will you go right home If I tell you?” he asked. “Tea, we will,” they replied almost together. “They are all dead,” Thomas answered bluntly. • There was not a tear—not an outcry. The women, some with children, turned and wont to their homes. Only the workers, curiosity seekers and newspaper men remained. „Bome of the crowd stood near the tipple all night, despite the pouring rain. ILLNESS SAVES LIFE Brother of Entombed Man Did Not Go to Work Friday. Times Staff Correspondent SULLIVAN, Ind., Feb. 21.—Lacey Thomas escaped the fate of his father and brother Friday, because he was ill. He did not go to work. His brother John is among the men entombed in the city mine. His father was killed in a mine blast at Oakland City, Ind., several years ago. A wife and two children survive John Thomas.

Grief Timet Staff Ootjresvondmt SULLIVAN, Ind., Feb. 31. Mrs. Claude Trader, 35, a waitress of Terre Haute, sat all night on a concrete ledge in the engine room of the City mine, wrecked by explosion Friday, waiting for rescuers to bring up the body of Claude Trader, 35, from whom she had been divorced aply a week. Trader was a miner for seventeen years. Mrs. Trader said a reconciliation was about to be effected shortly before the accident. “I am death-proof," she said Trader declared eight months before when he lay on a hospital oot after he had been caught in mine machinery. He was almost ground to death. 1 Mrs. Trader was told of tli disaster while forking In a Terre Haute restaurant. The stranger who broWbt the news took her to Sullivßn in a taxicab.

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THIS IS A VIEW OF CITY MINE AT SULLIVAN AS IT WOULD APPEAR LOOKING STRAIGHT DOWN FROM AN AIRPLANE IF THE EARTH WERE STRIPPED AWAY. ONE THEORY OF THE LXPLOSION IS THAT MINERS BROKE THROUGH INTO THE OLD MINE AT EITHER POINT "A” OR POINT “B.” IT IS THOUGHT THAT WHEN THEY BROKE THROUGH GAS FROM THE OLD MINE FLOODED THE MINE IN WHICH THE EXPLOSION OCCURRED.

LONG LINES PASS THROUGH MORGUES Neighbors, Relatives, Friends'View Bodies in Sullivan's Two Mortuaries,

By MABEL M’KEIS Timet Start Correspondent BULLIVAN, Ind., Feb. 21.—1n long lines Sullivan slowly passed by the biers of the dead Friday evening. They lay in long rows at the town’s two mortuaries. Old women, whose days have been spent In praying against such an accident as this for their husbands and sons; young women, children, old men who have spent so much as fifty years as "coal diggers” and men who will go down into the mine again and again in the days that follow. Not curious! But grieving, teurs In their eyee, sobs shaking their bodies, heads bent, hearts aching and loneliness beyond description written in their faces. "My neighbor,” one looked into the face of the man on the first bier. "He’s lived next door to me since he was a little boy.” Another sob. The old man next In ,lne clasped his hands. The Salvation Army lassie murmured: "In the midst of life, we are In the midst of death.’ 'Are There Enough Coffins?’ The old tooman with the shawl on her head crossed herself. The little boy near her nudged his mother, "Will there be enough coffins for all of them?" he asked shrilly. Miners with coal dust on their faces; lamps still on their cap*, who had never trembled In the face of death themselves, now shock as they looked into the faces of their late buddies. Thinking of the scene at the mine

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The rescuers at the City mine for the most part were volunteers; men who were at work in the other part of the mine from that in which the explosion occurred; men who had worked all day in other things, and men who have been out of work for a time. \• • • LEFT ALONE Fifteen-year-old Claude Waters was left alone in the world through this disaster. His father, Phil Waters. and his brother, Wayne Waters, were both killed. Emil Lecoque and Florence Le coque were another father and son killed in the disaster. They had come from Blcknell only a few weeks before to work in the City mine. HIS LAST DAY It was John Salmon's last day to work. He had planned to leave today on a trip to the West. He was unmarried. His body was recovered. • • • HEROIC SULLIVAN I Heroic Sullivan! The rescuers, with few exceptions, were all its citizens. As part of it bowed to Its brief the other par t comforted hardly realising that in + heir little town had happened the worst mine disaster ever known in Indiana. ' NUMBER THIRTEEN The twelfth body was brought to the surface. "Number 13,” was the awed whisper. "I wonder who it will be.’ A wait, and then the rope began to move. The cage drew up to the top and the thirteenth stretcher was carried from it. There was no number on the chest of that body. The fao was so black that the identity could not be discovered. "Number IS burned beyond recognition,” was the whisper. But at the undertaking establishments after every body was washed all were identified. volunteer’s ’plentiful As the first rescuers worked they had to carry their own air, and spread a curtain before the black damp In the mine. Several were brought to the top almost overcome. Whenever one was taken from the line of rescuers because he was overcome there were two volunters who tried to take his place. WAITS* FOR PAL Cuariie Seymour stood close to the mouth oL the mine. He had come up frory work at rescuing, still he

shaft; where lights flickered on huadrede—yee, thousands of watchers. Rememberfng the late afternoon when one body after another was carried from the mouth of the shaft. Remembering how they were Identified —first by number, then by name. The twitch of the rope which held the cage, and a hushed whisper, "Another one is coming.” Bowed heads and the covered stretcher is carried from the cage by the miner rescuers. “Lift the cover, hunt the number on his chest,” commanded D. C. Thomas, chief weigbman. Number—Then Name The number was given—the number of the room in which the body was found. Thomas, from his sheet on which were the names of the men and the number of their rooms, gave the name of the dead miner. It was announced. Like an electric current It went through the crowd—eech name as it was announced Harry Garby, Clauie Sanders. George Neal, John Ward, Bob Freeman and all the rest of them. Number nine was announced. “John Salmon," read Thomas. “John Salmon came first,” a miner reminded. "No, we were not sure of him," Thomas corrected. He checked up the names. "That was Perry Maxwell.” The long row of ambulances from Sullivan, from Linton and all the neighboring cities, the thousands of anxious faces—how they grew, longer and longer. The dusk thickened and the first lights flickered on.

stayed there. “Charlie Sanders, my roommate, is down there," he said, dully. A little later Sanders' body was brought up and Seymour moved back into the crowd. • • FROM BICKNELL Bob Freeman, who came from Blcknell to work in the City mine, was a cousin of Will and Clarence Freeman. There were eight Bicknell miners among the men who were killed in the mine. • • • SCAR RECOGNIZED Body of Mike Cusack was identified by his wife from a scar on his foot. The body was mangled so badly other Identification was impossible. • • e LEAVES NEW BORN BABY A. H. Mobsrly, 35, left a new-born baby to go to work. His body had not been recovered. The widow and another child also survive. \ STILL HOPES' Faithful to the traditions of mining communities, Vivian Smith. 14, daughter of Dave Smith, one of the missing men, clings to the belief that her daddy is alive. "Daddy knew too much about first-aid w jrk to be dead,” she said. Vivian, her mother and three slaters maintain & constant vigil at the mouth of the mine. ‘LUCK’ FAILS When "Lucky" Dowdy’s luck broke, it broke hard. Escaping death by a hair scores of times, Dowdy grew into the monicker that was attached to him. He was married at 16. The widow walks th edamp streets, refusing to believe her husband Is dead. e e e DEATH CHEATS CUPID Claude Saunders, whose body was among the first to be rescued, was to have married Miss Dora Bradbury of Sullivan in the spring. Search for Girl Begun Local police have been asked to search for Miss Henrietta Sorrell, who ran away from her home in Sharpless, W. Va.. Feb. . Mrs. Tex ana Sorrell, her mother, wrote that her daughter was abducted by a man who deserted his wife and five children in Sharpies*. Mrs. Borrell said shs had, traced the couple to Marion. Ind. \

Fatalism 'Something Wrong at Shaft’ Strikes Terror to Heart of All Except Miners Inured to Danger,

“Something wrong at the shaft!” Like magic the word spreads through a coal mining town when the works "lets go” or a cage falls or slate pinions some haples digger. In two minutes ths miners’ wives and families are streaming to the shaft—terror blanching their faces. 'Who’s hurt” is the question on all tongues, or "My. God; I hope Henry got out.” Back of terror for safety of their "man” lurkes the unexpected dread of awful poverty from losing the -wage earner. Because the mining class that inhabits the southwestern part of the State la a rough and reaty class, spending freely when there is a good "pay” and as a rule never laying up a cent for a rainy day. Scarce a family but has seen the father, brother or a neighbor borne home with his back broken by slate, eyes burned out by a premature "shot" or other Injury from one of the numerous accidents that occur in the underground caves where the coal is dug. The miner himself is a fatalist, as a rule giving little thought to the ever-present danger. Long familiarity causes him to regard as a matter of course the daily trip into the earth which is an adventure to the novice. Few ever quit the calling. VETERANS IN DISASTER Some of Old-Timers of Sullivan District Among Victims. Timet Staff Correspondent SULLIVAN, Ind., Feb. 21.—Victims in the City Coal Mining Company disaster included some of the veteran miners of the Sullivan district. Harry Anderson, 40, pitt boss, had been a miner for fifteen years. The widow and three children survive. Frank Smith, 35, of Dugger, Ind., one of the six men trapped li v the end of the east entry, is survived by a wife and eight children. He had been a miner since boyhood. R. L. Jackson, 51, had been a miner for twenty-seven years. Widow and two children survive. Widow and child await the recovery of the body of Gilbert Taylor, 27, trapped and known to be dead. FOUR HOOSIERS NAMED Committee for American Legion Fund Complete The complete personnel of the national honorary committee for the American Legion 35,000,000 endowment fund for disabled soldiers and orphans of the World War, was announced today by James A. Drain, national commander. President Coolidge is chairman of the committee, comprised of sixty-five leading men and women of the country. Vice President Elect Charles G. Dawes, besides being a member of the national honorary organization, has been engaged actively in promoting the Legion’s undertaking tr Illinois. Four Indianlans are members of the committee. They are Harry S. New, postmaster general; James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor; Booth Tarklngton, author, and Will Hays, former Cabinet officer.

Die Together Timet Staff Correspondent BULLIVAN, Ind., Feb. 21. Three fathers and their sons perished in the city mine explosion Friday morning. Bodies of only two fathers and one son had been reccvered. All were of Sullivan. The body of Pearl Hawhee, 47, remained in the mine. That of hia-aon, Frank Hawhee,lß, was removed early today. Florence Leaquoc, a Frenchman, and his son Emil Leaquoc, both died In the mine. The father's body has been repovered. The body of Philip Walker, 54, for twenty years a miner, has been recovered, but that ct his son, Wayne Walker, 20, had not been brought out. Another son and the widow survive. k-j - ....

“It Was Just Fate,” Declares John M.’Lowry, Who, With Three Others, Was Underground When Fatal i i Blast Came. By ROBERT G. BATMAN SULLIVAN, Ind., Feb. 21.—“1t was just fate.” That was the statement today of John M. Lowry, president of the City mine here, in which, it is believed, fifty-one men met their death Friday. Lowry, with Elmer Davidson and Floyd and Marshall Shipman, were the nearest men to the scene of the fatal blast who escaped alive.

RED CROSS HEAD ON WAYTO HELP Relief Director to Reach Sullivan Sunday, Henry Baker, national director of disaster relief, American Red Cross, will reach Sullivan Sunday to take personal charge of Red Cross Aid being given In the mine disaster which oost the lives of fifty-one miners Friday. The information was contained In a telegram to Governor Jackson today from John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross, who said he had authorised the Sullivan County Red Cross chairman to expend funds for emergency relief at Sullivan. Payne asked Jackson to extend to the sufferers the sympathy of the American Red Cross. FATHER RISKS LIFE Goes Into Mine Without Mask After Son—Seriously Gassed. Times Start Correspondent SULLIVAN, Ind., Feb. 21. Georgo Carty, mine boss at City mine, wrecked by explosion Friday, Is In a serious condition after being overcome by gas In a futile attempt to rescue his son, Cecil Carty, from the disaster. Another son, Earl Carty, who worked for four hours with the rescue squad, finally brought out the body of the younger brother. c The father went Into the mine without a gas mask. An unole of the dead boy, Dave Smith, also was killed In the explosion. The boy was graduated from Sullivan High School In 1928 and was a football and basketball star. Cecil Cartey was to have been married to Miss Margaret Bishop of Dugger this spring. He attended Purdue University last year. LOCAL PERSONS ATTEND Bit United Prut LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 21. Several Marlon County persons have attended the special agricultural short courses held during the last week or two at Purdue University. These courses Included such subjects as farm business, beekeeping, tractor operation and repair and one for creamery field men. Miss Ida Hanez, Mrs. Louis Burckhardt and H. Ray Hopewell of Indianapolis attended the beekeepers' shortcourse, Walter Warrick and D. V. Howard enrolled In the short course for creamery field men and D. A. Seerley and E. Kollman took the tractor short course.

Mourners Bv United Press SULLIVAN, Ind., Feb. 21. Seventy-six children and fortyfour widows are known to be survivors of the fifty-one miners dead. A record compiled by the mine checkweighman showed that only seven of the dead were single men. Frank Smith, one of the victims, is reported as leaving a widow and ten children. Perry Maxwell, another vietlm leaves a widow and six children.

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Lowry, with Floyd and Marshall Shipman, were at the bottom of the shaft. Davidson was 175 feet north, that much nearer the source of the blast. Just a few minutes before the disaster, Lowry was at the end of the main east entry making measurements for six men working north. Those six men are now lying where he left them—dead. ‘Good Boys’ "They were good boys, all fine fellows,” said Lowry. “I thought of sitting down and chatting with them for a minute. Then I remembered that no one was at the mouth of the shaft. If I had stayed ” * His voice broke and he lowered his eyes. Lowry entered the main east entry with Harry Anderson, pit boss. Anderson had. Just received word that the crews working in entries three and four at the main east entry wanted to see him. They walked down the entry together. Anderson branched off into entry three, from which bis body was taken. A "squeeze” or cave-in might have caused miners to' call for the boss. That cave-ln, he also said, might have been caused by gas in a pocket encountered by the diggers. If such was the cage, a sudden rush of gas from the pocket caused the explosion whioh wrecked the mine, he said. Possibility that the miners might have dug Into some abandoned entries and encountered a gas pocket, was also given credence by Lowry. One of these two things caused the explosion, he said. ‘Like a Hurricane’ The foroe of the blast swept air and gas through the entries like a hurricane, Lowry said. With Floyd and Marshall Shipman he fled Into the south entry. When the fan had driven him a fresh current of air he stumbled into the north entry and gained a manway, an air shaft with stairs that lead to the top. He managed ta reach the top and collapsed. Davidson was struck near the scene of the explosion by an Iron brace bar and was carded from the mine by the first rescuers to enter and taken to the hospital. Doctors aay he will recover. . The city mine will jprobably be reopened as soon as all bodies are removed and debris cleared away, Lowry said. HERMAN RITES MONDAY Member of Scientist Church to Bo Burled hi Crown Hill. Funeral services for Mrs. Cards Herman, 64, of the Blacherne Apts., 402 N. Meridian St., wife of B. H. Herman, president of the B. H. Herman Company, will be held at 2 p, m., Monday at the Johnson and Montgomery chapel, 1032 Central Ave. Burial will be In Crown Hill. Mrs. Herman Is survived by the husband, two sisters; Mrs. Louise Herman, of Danville, Va.. and Mrs. L. Arnheim, of New York and two brothers, Charles Heller, of Boston, Maas., and Ell Heller, of Baltimore, Md. She was a member of the Second Church of Christ, Scientist. • ... ,> , , , BASKETBALL FAN KILLED Meets Death When Auto Upsets Returning From Game. Bu United Press WARSAW, Ind., Feb. 21.—Gerald Mlshler, 18, son of Mrs. Hugh Brevier of Nappanee, was Instantly killed Friday night when his auto overturned near New Paris. He was returning home with a crowd of fans from a basketball game at New Pads.