Page 10 Page 8 1 130 am and 7 pm they battled the blaze with high pressure water hoses crews battled the stubborn fre all through the night As the air cleared the grim task of recovering and removing the bodies of the miners who perished was carried out T wo bodies were recovered from the powder house fve from the 550 foot level and three from the 800 ft level By 5 pm on Monday February 13 the 39th miner who died during the Hollinger Fire was brought to the surface The fre was fnally extinquished on February 14 four days after it had started On the morning of Monda y Feb ruary 13 Premier GH Ferguson appointed Mining Court Judge T E Godson to head a Royal Commission into the causes of the Hollinger fre and to make rec ommendations on how to prevent such catastrophes and also how to improve mine rescue operations The Inquiry will be as thorough and farreaching as possible said Contd from Pg 6 Premier Ferguson It is absolutely essential for the lives and safety of the men who are going underground that they have the fullest assurance of ev ery possible protection against accident or disaster the Premier added Our hope is that a thorough and exhaustive inquiry will fnd the causes of the disaster and the means for guarding against its occurrence Premier Ferguson stated T wo other inquiries would also investigate the Hollinger Fire a Coroner s Inqest would determine the cause of the deaths An inves tigation was also launched by the Hollinger Company Among the the recommendations of the Royal Commission was the creation of Ontario Mine Rescue It came into existence in 1929 For 90 years the Ontario Mine Res cue system improved how mining emergencies would be conducted in Ontario T rain from Pittsburgh arrives in record time 21 hrs areas poisoned by noxious fumes The train from T oronto arrived on Saturday morning carrying T oron to frefghters ofcials from The Canadian Gas Company and a couple of mining inspectors They had brought with them three Mc Caa breathing apparatuses The rescuers equiped with the McCaa breathing apparatus ven tured into the mine at 1 pm on Saturday and returned to the sur face an hour and half later at 230 pm with seven rescued miners A second rescue trip located miner George Zolob a Romanian immi grant who informed the rescuers of the locatio n of 1 1 other trapped miners The hearty Romanian be came a real life symbol of resi lence and determination a bright spot in an otherwise tragic event The train from Pittsburgh arrived at 620 am on Sunday February 12 in record time The train made the 1000 mile 1600 km trip in 21 hrs Shortly after the team from Pittsburgh arrived the mine man agers and the rescue teams de cided to clear the mine passages of toxic smoke and gases by using brattice cloth and fans to ventilate the noxious gases out of the mine passages When the smoke had cleared from the 550 foot level the rescue crew quickly isolated a powder maga zine using brattice cloth barriers a couple of hundred feet from where the fre was burning Between