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Show ALL HOPE OF FINDING MINERS ALIVE IS GIVEN UP BY COALMINE OFFICIALS BUT FEW BODIES REMAIN UNDER GROUND AT CASTLEGATE, WHERF WORST EXPLOSION IN HISTORY OF STATE SNUFFED OUT LIVES OF ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE MEN Cause of Disaster It Yet Unknown, and May Never be Learned as There Are No Living Survivors to Tell of Accident; Burying of Dead ia Grim Sight a Line of Coffina Are Takcln to Burial Grounds sions followed ly the accumulation of death-dealing gases claimed as their victims a father and two sons. The youths in man yinstances were scarcely out of their teens, but they had taken their places at the side of their fathers and with them went to their death. William Morrison and his two sons Dan and James, are recorded as missing, while in the second instance the bodies of George and Norman Harrison have been reclaimed frorr. the death chambers, while that of their father still is carried on the company's roster as missing. The body of George Harrison was the first removed from the mine, while that of his brother was the eighth. Other fathers and sons were Thomas Thom-as Pelly, Sr., and Thomas, Jr. David Evans and his son Frank; Basil Git-tins Git-tins and his son, Brinley; Robert Dodd and his son, Harry and Horace Simpson and his son Clarence. Simpson went through the Winter-quarters Winter-quarters disaster in 1900, which cost 200 lives. He had served in tha'. property as a fire boss and also as a mine boss. Because of his advancer! age he was employed in the ill fated Mine No. 2 as a track man. Rescuer.! entering the mine early Monday morning found his small tin pail in which he carried rail spikes and his tools along the side of thetrack in the main entry, but were unable to find any trace of his body. Castlegate, Utah. All suspense is virtually ended, for It has now become be-come a certainty that no man who was in the coal mine when the explosion ex-plosion occured here last Saturday can now be found alive. Appearances Appearan-ces in the mine; the circumstances surrounding the discovery of the bodies, all indicate a common tragic fate for all the one hundred and seventy-five men. At the first left escapeway, from which all rescue work has been conducted, con-ducted, the' toil continues unremittingly unremit-tingly and as feverishly as when the first call for help was given. The difference now is that the work is so thoroughly organized as to be almost tlon as soon as formalities are complete. com-plete. Several large insurance companies com-panies whose policies wre held by miners are advancing beneficiaries sums of money for immediate needs. Fathers and Sons Perish In Mine Castlegate. Youths born and raised rais-ed in Castlegate, sons of coal miners all, together with their fathers, perished per-ished in the explosion that snuffed out 173 lives in Mine No. 2 of the Utah Fuel company Saturday. Records Rec-ords cf the company kept in the company com-pany offices a mile and a half away from the scene of the catastrophe, reveal the fact that in seven instances instan-ces fathers and sons perished. In two instances the deadly explo- automatic, ine well-conceived plan of operation goes forward without a hitch as shift succeeds to shift almost al-most without words and wholly without with-out confusion. Grim visaged miners, dirt and sweat stained, toil at intervals up the steep incline of the blasted entrance to the escapeway, bearing on stretchers the canvas-covered forms of their comrade com-rade victims. Perhaps fifty workers waiting for their turn to enter stand silently while the bodies are given first examination at the receiving tent and from there are transferred to the waiting motors, which take them swiftly down the dusty, narrow canyon to the rapidly-filling morgue. A few quiet words among the watchers as a lost friend's name Is told,, an anecdote or two about "his brother is in there, too," or "one of the best we had," and another stretcher comes as a new shift goes on duty, with cap lights lit and tools in hand. Down in the town the first attention atten-tion is now turned to the planning of last sad rites for those who have gone. Those who have been left behind be-hind are finding comfort in the ministrations min-istrations of the generously outpoured outpour-ed help of the community and state. Pleasure Center Is Death House - CastlegUe, Utah. Castlegate's community house and recreation center, cen-ter, the largest building in this small mining camp holds for the last time all that is mortal of the men who in the .years past entered into the festivities fes-tivities for which it was erected. Located Lo-cated on the main street of the town, at a point where the business and the residential section meet, the recreational recrea-tional center now, as in the past, has-become has-become the Mecca of all those directly direct-ly afflicted by Utah's greatest mine disaster in twenty-four years but their mission differs greatly from that which on previous occasions has directed their footsteps to the "hall." The building, consisting of a large auditorium, library and other smaller rooms, is directly across the street from the Knights of Pythias building build-ing used by the coal company as the temporary morgue, Eodics recovered recover-ed at mine No. 2 are removed in conveyances con-veyances to the morgue and there are fixed for burial. As sroon as the bodies have been placed in coffins they are removed to the auditorium of the "hall," there to rest until final arrangements are completed for the burial of the victims. j Relief Work Now Under Way j Casthgate, Belief work for the families of the miners who perished in the Cnstltjrate disaster is looming an on of the larjre problems but all Immediate needs nre brinir looked after af-ter by the Ojirbon county chapter of the American Bed Cross un ler the direction of Chairman Ell-altcth W. Stevenson of Price. Headquarter And a food and clothing cloth-ing depot have been established In the basement of the amusement hall and nil contribution are belna received re-ceived there and ilisrx-nKeil to families found to be in need. The fi'n'is nre being furnished cit of the trorsury of the locnl Bod Cross chapter on l word lias leen received from division hindquarters hind-quarters In Snn Francisco by V. J. Bichnn!8'n, who l In natlc niil orgnn-izatlOn orgnn-izatlOn repres;;natlve here that funds cun be drawn from there If nwesary. Future plans for rehaM'lt iibm of f'e srrickrn families nrp l-eln-r held until after the " Bt:lMKhlen of a State ' rellof commission. The h -iiHlng problem offers mv difficultios as the families live In company lions s and fuel Is belnj fnrnl'hd them by the company. The locnl Bed Cross workers have tnkrn care of all m-mediate m-mediate dlstrfls and surveys of the homes am belnnr mride by workers and memWs of local nnd county dvlc orr'nnli'.iitioni. There are n few enses of drnperafe need, wlierp small f imf!l''g have been left with ni miiln members and these are reccivlns nld. The comnnny Is Ivaylng off wnces of t!ie de!'d miners to their dependents as soon as their Identlficntlon Is positive, and Is making mak-ing arrangements to pay rompensa- |