June 4 1902
Free Press Files
The rescue party have added another half dozen to the list of bodies taken from the mine. This brings the total recovered to date up to 124. A number of the miners employed in the work still estimated that there are nine or ten bodies yet in the mine, others fix the total at not more than a half a dozen. How long before they will all be recovered it is hard to estimate. Those recovered during the week were: Alex Walker, John Owen, M. Fitzmainice, Willie McDonald, an unknown supposed to be Angus Gunn, a A Federico. A force of sixty or seventy men have been hard at work during the past week getting No. 1 mine ready for operation again and it is expected that coal will begin to come out on Monday.
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