By International News Service
Coal Glen, N.C., May 30—Rescue workers early tonight brought to the surface the last two bodies of the 53 victims entombed in the mine of the Carolina Coal company here last Wednesday as the result of a series of gas explosions.
The bodies were located after electric pumps had completed the work of draining the water which flooded the mine shaft. Following their removal, all rescue operations ceased.
Only the Red Cross and a federal mining inspector are expected to remain here after tomorrow.
Nothing definite has been determined as to an inquiry into the cause of the disaster. Mine officials have repeatedly stated that no open lamps were in use at the mine. No appeal for help has been issued by Governor McLean, and according to word received from his secretary at Raleigh, it is doubtful if one will be made.
Meanwhile, the dead were being buried and plans were proceeding for protection of widows [and survivors of] the victims.
Practically every train. . .ford during the past. . . carried bodies of the victims. . .to former homes in Alabama, the Carolinas and Virginia.
Relief measures are . . . for the destitute face. . . meetings have been . . . subscriptions made. . . . is operating and officials. . . that an appeal for funds. . . made to take care of the orphans.
Before leaving for Washington, D.C., ? T.T. Read, of the Safety. . . United States Bureau of Mines, stated that no cause had been found for the disaster, and that none probably ever would be.
From the front page of The Durham Sun, Sunday morning, May 31, 1925. The right-hand side of the newspaper was torn leaving words unreadable in a section of the column.
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