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Show LIFE COULD BEEN SAVED John McLaughlin's Death Unnecessary Forfeit. CORONER'S JURY SO DECLARE Had Foreman of Daly West Mine Permitted Ilescue Parties to Oo to Bravo Man's Relief McLaughlin Would Have Lived Mangled Be-mains Be-mains oT John Burgle tho Unfortunate Unfor-tunate "Powder Monkey," round, Gathered Together In a Sheet and Removed From the Mine. Park City, Inly 11 The body of the first man killed In the Dlly West explosion ex-plosion was the last to b recovered The scattered remilna of John Burgle, the unfortunate "powder monkey," were gathered together In a sheet nt 3 o clock thin morning by Stipt. Klrby and biought to town. HLOWN TO PIHCHS lhe bruised nnd mangled trunk lay In i small ch unber opening rrom the tunnel at n point 300 feet from the magazine. Head, hands and feet had teen torn off and were found at varloua placet In tho chamber. The head was recovered In small pieces. It Is Impiobahle If not Impossible that llurgle was thrown Into the chamber cham-ber by the explosion, as the opening Is nt right angles to the tunnel and such an explanation Implies that he was blown mound a cornel. TIIHOUY OT MINERS. The theory of the miners la that, on discovering tho powder In the magazlno to be on lire, he took refuge In tho chamber, hoping to escape the force of tho explosion A Jur has been lm-panele lm-panele 1 to hold an Inquest on his re. mains tomorrow Afterward the body will be sent to Heber for Interment. M LAUdllLIN INQUEST. Torty witnesses were examined at the Inquest of John McLaughlin, testimony being Introdued to piesent fully to the Jury the exact surroundings of the brave soung man's death By tho terms of the Jury's verdict McLaughlin's McLaugh-lin's life was an unnecessary forfeit, i COULD 1IAVH BEKN SAVED "W'e llnd fiom the testimony submitted submit-ted that the life of John McLaughlin could have been saved had the foreman fore-man nf said mine permitted rescuing parlies to proceed to his relief," the verdict re tds STORING POWDER IN MINE In their verdict the Jurors also state their conviction of the danger attarhed to the practice of storing quantities of practice be prohibited by Hvv. OBJECT TO TWO JURORS When the Inquest wis called, before Justice Wilson, objections were made by relitlie of the dead man to George Smith nnd Prnnk Lake, two of the Jurors, on tho grounds that they might be Inclined to fnvor the mining contrails cont-rails ln giving their icrdlct Accord-Ingls Accord-Ingls James P Burns and Oliver C. Lockhart were sworn In as Jurors In their place The erdlct rendered by lhe Jurs follows VERDICT OF THE JURY, State of Utah, Pirk City precinct, county coun-ty of Summit s s An Inquest hiving been held at Tark Cits. In Park City precinct, county of Summit, State nf Utah on the tilth das of Jills. A D W!, before George F Wilson, Wil-son, Justice of the peice ln and for Park Cits' precinct In said cotnts. upon the body of John McLaughlin there lying dad hs the jurois whose names are hereto here-to subscribed, the sild J irors on their osths do sai thit the said John Mclaughlin Mc-laughlin came to his death on the Kth dis of Juls. 190- by being overcome by gases generated bs the lccldentil explosion explo-sion of several tons of powder commonly known as glint powder, which was then stored within th. Dais West mine, sild John Mclaughlin having descended Into the ssld Dal) Wsst mine for the purpose of assisting In the recovery of those per-sons per-sons who were suppoiel to have been killed or Injured In sill explosion And we further find fiom testimony submitted to us that the life of the same John McLaughlin could have been saved had the foreman of the said mine permitted permit-ted rescuing parties to proceed to his re-lut re-lut We believe that the storing of larte quantities of giant powder or other dangerous dan-gerous explosives In mines where men are emplosed la an extremeis dangerous practice prac-tice which should be prohibited by law In testtmons whereof the sail Jurors have hereunto set their hand the das and car aforesaid ItUlN'EY RILEY JMTS P HUHN'S OLIVER C lOt'Klf rtT Subscribed and swon to before me, this 10th da of Juli A D l"n oi.onon V WILSON, J P. |