ill mm WORSE W FIRST three hundred to four hundred men entered the scofield coal mines and a majority were killed by the explosion or suffocated to death i explosion in coal mines at scofield utah yesterday forenoon in which many miners lost their lives at 1030 this morning bodies had been recovered supply of coffins in salt lake exhausted and more have been sent for to ogden provo and denver forty dead ready to be taken from one tunnel kuung girl falls dead on learning of the death of her third brother who yesterday made an effort to rescue those in the mine thousands of dollars subscribed for the afflicted families salt lake utah may 2 A special to the deseret news from scofield says 1030 a m at this hour two hundred and one have been recovered it is now known that between three hundred and tour hundred men entered the mines and it is also known that a great majority of them have been the appalling feature of the disaster had not fully dawned upon the people of this place last night as the company kept the grief stricken wives and children away from the scene of operations all night long lights were kept burning in every home in scofield and win ter quarters and the moans of mothers and piteous cries of the many orphans are heartrending the two camps have always been conspicuous for the large number of married men employed this fact makes the disaster more appalling and far reaching in its results several families have been robbed of all their male representatives in the Hunter family seven are missing among the dead tre about twenty boys who and 4 j si p fc A afi tr boys j y j busl how thea is noty known and probably will never aa definitely known as various lea are being attributed as provo a mass meeting has been held for the relief of the families of the victims and subscribed bupt supt W G sharp ot the pleasant valley coal company resumed work with a rescuing party of sixteen at 8 this morning directed by state mine inspector thomas the first body taken out today was chatot walter dark the young man who forced his way into the mine yesterday to rescue his two brothers in the interim a procession of litter bearers was seen coming down the bill from no 4 mine amid sobs and groans the ghastly procession moved to the railroad track where their burdens were placed in box cars the bodies avye all frightfully mutilated within short timet thirteen bodies had wea placed in the morgue rescuing paty ha bodies piled up lit the tunnel will be brought out at one trip have been for burial the rio grande elern will call a force of graders jrolf lizzie clark sixteen years old a sister of walter dark tell dead at her mothers feet this morning when she heard of her brothers death at salt lake the supply of coffins baa been exhausted additional cotins have been ordered from provo and ogden and an order for seventy five more has been placed in denver active measures of relief are being taken here by th state and county officials and several subscription lists have been started armour co through their local agent has donated a shipment of beet bacon and canned goods scofield utah may 2 an appalling disaster occurred here at 1025 a m yesterday by an explosion in mine no 4 of the pleasant valley coal company up to midnight last night one hundred and thirty seven bodies had been recovered DEAD RECOVERED the list of dead recovered Is as follows john hunter sr dan muhr boy peter chocklett Coc klett jans allson robert ferrish will robert R T evans llewellyn evans boy james wallace sr ben lloyd john lloyd brothers robert hunter james C hunter father and son dick thomas david william jones william powe boy valentine bloxon william reese geo james john james son and father samuel livesay R dixon anselmo jachetta ferari jachetta J may soil happl matt katoski harry miller R V miller isaac miller william dails A langstaff Lans staff and son dayis and son andrew adamson T J reilley Rell ley will jam parrolee Par roley john thomas and jas webber Aa iderson thomas henry allson charles edwards bernard dougal andrew hunter and son jamea Ga therman william Ga thorman john burnes john price alex allson jr george coulthard Coult thos williams and son wm samuels and son in one at no 1 mine there are ten men as yet unknown THE INJURED the injured eight in number were baken on a special train io salt lake last evening there are one to three of the injured that will not survive the trip to the hospital thomas livesay sandy wilson john wilson john karton william boweter john beddoe thomas sellers william livesay there are willing hands at work and as fast as bodies are reached they are brought down to the boardinghouses and other company buildings where they are dressed and prepared tor the coroners inquest the removal of the bodies began 12 yesterday A special train wass run out of salt lake city arriving at scofield about S bearing dr bascom salt lake superintendent welby of the rio grande western W G sharp and others another special was run from castle gate and helper bearing dr asadorian Asa dorlan of castle gate dr holmquist of helper chief clerk H A nelson and three mine foremen who rendered every assistance possible As superintendent williams of castle gate arrived on an earlier train theories as to the direct cause of the explosion differ materially bishop thomas parmley superintendent of the operations here gives it as his opinion that the explosion was brought about by giant powder which was taken into the mine by some of the miners that exploded in some unaccountable way igniting the dost and thereby causing the explosion this mine has been worked tor over twenty years and has the reputation according to state mine inspector thomas of being one of the best ventilated ti and protected in the west nine tenths of the men killed are americans and welsh the former come mostly from utah with a small number from tennessee and colorado no sooner was it understood to be an explosion than bishop parmley headed a rescuing party of twenty men and tried to gain an entrance into no 4 through the opening of no 1 but the soon forced back by the fire damp JP Hiding the rescue impracticable uy this route the parties then headed tor no 4 here they found th air beginning to circulate and after clearing away the fallen and dead horses at the mouth of the mine they entered about two hundred yards when they came upon the dead bodies of six of the men john kirton was the first one brought out at about 12 his whole scalp being burned to a cinder and bis face unrecognizable he was still alive and apparently conscious crying out in agony for his fellow comrades to end his misery by killing him on the spot in the meantime john allson who had been blown with his horse two hundred yards across the canyon from the mouth of the mine bad been dis covered the back of his skull was crushed and some solid substance had been driven through his abdomen thomas sellers who was working about fifty yards from the mouth of the mine an the outside had his right toot back hunt and shoulder butof place sandy ahson also an the outside was bit by flying timbers and his life is despaired of harry taylor had his jaw broken and john beddoes was severely bruised these men were on the outside rescuing party inside the mine discovered william boweter lying in the midst of several dead and with assistance si ho walked to the mouth of the mine and was saved all men on the raise known as pikes peak were lying in clusters john james a county commissioner was found with his son george entwined in loving embrace in each others arms all these men had apparently realized that death was coming for all a ere found as though in attitudes of defense some had their cloaks about them others had tried to protect themselves by burying their faces in the ground floor of the mine hoping thus to escape the deadly gas that was fast enveloping them they must have lived for some time in prayerful expectation pec tation of rescue reaching them EIGHT COUNTY A I 1 1 ALL MEMBERS OF ONE FAMILY PERISH IN COAL MINE DISASTER one of the saddest incidents ot the disaster Is in the fact that eight members ot one family bertah taken away by death at one fell blow they are the hunters and athey were formerly residents of west weber and kane valle andrew hunter living at present at formerly an employed of the mines at scoff ed was notified last night by wire of the death 0 h s relatives and this morning he camo to tho standard office for further information he stated that among the dead are eight of bis relatives adam hunter chis son robert hunter two sons william john and david hunter adam and robert hunter arc brothers of andrew hunter while the latter three are cousins of andrew hunter the death of the three boys leaves but one young boy of the family and there Is one cousin still living hugh who sent the telegram some years ago there was another brother killed in the mine at almy and robert hunter married his adow one of the sons killed was a eon of the widow by the brother killed at almy mr hunter allf probably go down to he scene of the disaster in the morning SOME OTHER MOURNERS this morning john A lamport left for scofield the scene of the mine accident called there by the death of his brother in law robert hunter mrs hunter being the sister of lamperts Lam ports first wife this Is the second husband mrs hunter has lost in a mine horror her first one being killed at almy wyo mrs adam hunter whose husband is among the killed is a sister of mrs nelson whose daughter is an opera tor in the bell telephone company 0 flee iras irA CAPT PREDICTED THE SCOFIELD HORROR according to captain benjamin state mine inspector gomer thomas was cognizant that conditions of the mines in the castle gate district for some time past wera precarious captain warned the state inspector that unless better ventilating conditions were inaugurated in the mines and the dust frequently sprinkled down that it would only be a matter of time before the country would be startled by the news of a terrible mining catastrophe three weeks ago that gentleman told his old companions with whom he used to work in days gone by in the mines among the green hills of wales unless they agitated for belter ventilation in the winter quarters mine that they daily carried their lives in their hands when seen last night captain alb acy stated that be did not care to talk with regard to the matter finally however he admitted that such was the case he said 1 I happened to be down in that district just a few days after that man and woman were arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the penney murder wihlie at scofield I 1 met several old miners with whom I 1 was acquainted when I 1 was a boy working in the collieries colli eries of wales after a while we began to talk naturally about the mine in which they were working and they stated that there was considerable dust to be encountered there although it was practically free from noxious gases according to their statement the ventilation was nothing to boast of alter talking upon the subject I 1 told anem that they were running a great risk every time that they entered tho mine they said they knew they did but you know how miners are they evidently dad not worry much about ane matter in regard to the purported warning to state mine inspector thomas captain admitted that he bad met him at pleasant grove on the day prior to the explosion there recently on which occasion happily there was no loss of life 1 I told him at the time he said that there would be a big explosion here if they continued to fire from to shots at the same time by means of a battery as the concussion from this number of simultaneous shots would of necessity raise a big cloud of dust which at any moment was liable to ignite with disastrous effects sure enough only a few hours later what I 1 predicted happened only fortunately owing to the rule all the miners had left the mine previous to turning on the current captain is a man of experience having been connected with the coal mining industry man and boy since the early sixties in wales iowa montana and utah he mows something about cause and effect in regard to explosions having passed through no less than twenty one explosions with the loss of a finger on each hand also several scalp wounds in comparing mining operations on roth sides of the atlantic he said that in the majority of cases coal mining as operated in western america was carried on in a very haphazard fashion over in england he said the laws governing scientific mining are compiled by men of experience and bedr uc atlon tor the protection of the man hat works in the bowels of the earth ahe majority of men who gain a livelihood in tills country by mining coal do not seem to think it worth their while to study the subject take for instance out here where it is true that every mine is furnished with a barometer to record the weight 0 the air and a thermometer to test the heat a hydrometer is very seldom been around a colliery most miners are aware of the fact that a change of weather at feets the mine but they cant tell you why here captain produced a and proceeded to indulge in mathematical calculations every school boy knows he continued the pressure of the air is fifteen pounds to the square inch multiply that by and you get the total to be 2160 pounds to the square toot supposing the mercury drops an inch in tho mine that means that there is 2160 pounds less atmospheric pressure in a drift feet which means a great deal as anyone can see to the successful ventilation of that chamber all bituminous coal contains from 37 to 40 per cant volatile matter which rises from the beam without successful ventilation it elands to reason that the noxious gases must soon predominate in anthracite th coal there Is only from 5 to 6 per cent volatile matter in evidence and one never hears of a dust explosion in an anthracite mine dust too plays a great part in the ventilation of a mine dust absorbs the moisture and consequently the even balance of the atmosphere Is not maintained to successfully operate a mine all these things must be taken into consideration and the dust should be thoroughly wetted down from time to time it this is not done there Is sure to be an explosion sooner or later and artter the explosion of dust the oxygen being all consumed in the drift it is naturally impossible for any living thing to exist under the A coal dust explosion Is similar in its effects to that which occurs from time to time in large flour mills which are badly ventilated and it it were possible to have a flour dust explosion under similar condition s to that in a coal mine the effects of course would be the same the men who perished in this explosion at winter quarters died from the effects of afterdamp after damp which is another name for the absence of oxygen in the air when nature needs assistance it may be best to render it promptly but 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