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Show funeral services will be held. Fol-lowin Fol-lowin gthe burial of all of the victims vic-tims It is intended to hold one large memorial service. It may be that each religious denominatioon will hold such a memorial service in honor of the men of their respective fa lib.. President Arthur W. Horsley of Carbon stake and Bishop George Ruff of Scofield have charge of the burial of the Latter-day Saint victims. vic-tims. According to Bishop Ruff very few of these will be buried in the ('astlegate cemetery as most of them are bein gshlpped to their respective home communities in various sections of the state. Wage Dispute Saves life. Because Pete Borla and Henry Etzel refused to mine coal for 84 cents a ton and hung out for 94 cents, they are still alive today. Had they agreed to work for the lower price they would now either be occupying one of the caskets in the Amusement hall here or else be entombed in the mine. "Henry and I talked with Jack Davis, the mine superintendent, about going to work," said Borla. "He insisted that we go to work at .S4 cents a ton, which is ten cents less than the regular price, but we told him we would rather stay outside than to work for that price. He said that was all right with him and that we could go on home if we did not want to work for that as he had been ordered by the company com-pany not to pay any more. "We started back to the camp and less than 15 minutes later we heard the thud that would have sent us into oblivion had we decided decid-ed to accept the cut in wages." One of the busiest places in the camp is the Castlegate Hotel where Mrs. Rosie Nowddeiv, the proprietor, has been feeding more than GOO people every 24 hours. Every hour, dny or night, someone is being served ser-ved at the hotel. During regular meal times four cooks are busy at the ranges and more than 15 young women are assisting in waiting on the tables. School Teachers Aid. Among those who have volunteered volunteer-ed their help in this work and have given efficient service in feeding the rescue workers are the school teachers of the Castlegate school, which has shut down since the explosion ex-plosion and has veen converted into sleeping quarters for the rescue teams. . HERE'S MORE ABOUT Castlegate STARTS ON PAGE ONE Overton, Clark county, Nevada. The body of George Harrison, of Ileber, member Provo Elks, was taken to Provo last night. Tuesday evening a rescue 'team came out of the mine and reported the finding o Andrew Gilbert's body. His son, John Gilbert, who Is here, asked The Herald to telephone tele-phone David Stagg and ropiest Mr. Stagg to break the sad news to Mrs. Gilbert, then in Provo. This morning morn-ing when the body was brought out of the mine it was discovered that it was not Mr. Gilbert, but another man. Rushes From Death. According to some of the rescue men, one of the entombed miners had been shoveling coal as he heard the explosion coming. Judging from the position of bis shovel and his body, ho had pushed the shovel under un-der a pile of coal, grabbed his hat with the right hand and started to run from the room into the entry. Alter running less than 20 feet lie had been overcome by the gas but had tried to shield his face with his left arm. When he was found by the rescue crew, he still held his hat in his hand so tightly that it was hard to get the hat away from him. Every train coming into Castlegate Castle-gate has brought hundreds of friends and relatives of the entombed entomb-ed miners. The roads leading to Castlegate are filled with automobiles automo-biles from almost every section of the state as well as surrounding states, carrying relatives anxious to learn of the fate of their loved ones. The streets of the city, especially that part of main street where are located the Amusement hall and the K. P. ball, both of which places have been converted into temporary morgues, are jammed with automobiles. auto-mobiles. The offices of the Utah Fuel company are besieged by survivors who are here to make arrangements for the burial of their ill-fated relatives. rela-tives. JudL'e Ferdinand Erickson and Dr. C. E. McDermid are working work-ing from early in the morning until late in the night making out death cci-tifientes and arranging for the shipping away and the burial of the bodies. All day Tuesday and Wednesday hundreds of people have visited the morgue in the Amusement hall, the dance floor of which is filled with caskets of various shades and colors. Many of the women have almost gone into hysterics and has bad to be led away from the casket of their husbands and sons as they have been permitted to look at the faces of their loved ones. To prevent pre-vent filly possible confusion (111(1 excitement ex-citement only a few persons at a time have been allowed iu the tem-1 poravy morgue. Funeral and burial services have been changed from previously made arrangements and instead of holding hold-ing individual services it has been decided to bury each body without a special service. With the exception excep-tion of the dedication of the final resting place of those who were entrapped en-trapped in the fatal explosion Saturday, Sat-urday, no individual funeral services ser-vices will be held. This is true of course only in the cases where burial will be in the Castlegate cemetery. Where bodies are shipped ship-ped to other communities regular |