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Sunday Morning, November 14, 1909
: (Decatur Review)
400 Miners Trapped by Fire: all thought Dead - Awful Catastrophe in St. Paul
Railroad Mine at Cherry Due to Miner's Lamp - No Escape for Workers.
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Monday Evening, November 15, 1909:
(Decatur Review) 300 IN MINE, NOT ONE LIVING: Latest Conclusion
in Mine Disaster - Bodies Now Being Brought Up
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Monday, November 15, 1909- Page One :
(Daily Tribune)
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385 MEN ENTOMBED - Subterranean Fire at Cherry, Ill., Mine Entraps Hundreds
of Workmen - Party of Heroic Rescuers Lose Lives After Helping Scores to
Escape From Depth.
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HEARTRENDING SCENES PRESENTED AROUND MINE - Wives, With Babes In Arms
and Tots Trailing at Their Heels, Crowd Around Shaft, Screaming and Crying
For their Relatives - Special Trains Bring Doctors, But None Are Brought
Up From Below - Rush Water To Fire on Special Cars.
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ALL HOPE IS GONE FOR CHERRY MINERS - Flames in Mine Beat Back Those
Who Would Rescue the Imprisoned Men.
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Fire Burst Out Afresh when the Fan is Started. - Shaft Openings Are Once
More Sealed Up in the Hope of Smothering the Fire -- Officials do not Expect
to Reopen Mine Until Tomorrow at Least -- All Those Entombed are Thought
to be Dead
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Monday, November 15, 1909 - Page Eight
(Daily Tribune)
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Former Miners From Here Dead - List Shows Number From La Salle and Jonesville
Lost Lives at Cherry - Heroes Lived in Jonesville
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Jonesville Man Gives Life In Disaster At Cherry To Save Others
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ARE PREPARING TO BURY BODIED OF HEROES WHO LOST LIVES AT CHERRY
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La Salle Mine Sends Fan To Replace One Destroyed At Cherry
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CORONER OPENS INQUEST SUNDAY - Village Hall at Cherry Scene of Inquiry
into Death of Rescue Party - Several Jurors inclined to censure Him
For Failure to Raise Cage At Once - Resume Hearing This Morning (To Be
Continued......)
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Tuesday Evening, November 16,
1909: (Decatur Review) NO HOPE, COAL IN
MINE ON FIRE - Widows Gather and Plead - Rain Falls - Funerals Held - Only
Misery at Cherry.
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Wednesday Evening, November 17,
1909: (Decatur Review) MINE FIRE HOTTER - No
Hope of Entering Week - Women in Anguish
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Thursday Evening, November 18,
1909: (Decatur Review)
GO INTO THE MINE: Encouraged By Lower Temperature At Surface - Soldiers Surround
Shaft and Keep Crowd Off. No Demonstration
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Friday Evening, November 19, 1909:
(Decatur Review) GET BODIES FROM MINE: Bodies, Followed by
Mourners, Taken to Temporary Morgue
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Saturday Evening, November 20,
1909: (Decatur Review)
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FORTY OUT ALIVE: (Actually Only 22) MAY BE
150 MORE: Walled Themselves In From Fire -- Seven Days In Darkness
-- Two Come Up Smiling.
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FORTY BODIES BROUGHT UP - Ghastly Procession From Mine Before Village
Is Awake
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Sunday Morning, November 21, 1909:
(Decatur Review)
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ANOTHER FIRE BREAKS OUT, MAY KILL MANY - Twenty Men Safely
Out of Cherrry Mine
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Graphic Stories Told By Survivors
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Monday Evening, November
22, 1909: (Decatur Review)
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NO MORE RESCUES AT CHERRY MINE - 200 Missing, Many Are Dead, Some May
Be Alive
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ARE AFTER PROOF - Miners' Representatives Will Try to Fix Responsibility
on Company
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WROTE WILLS - Some Pathetic Letters Were Written
by the Miners Facing Horrible Death
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