Show JUSTICE FOR THE SUFFERERS The Red Canyon horror is yet sufficiently suf-ficiently fresh in the public mind to cause throbs of sympathy for the bereaved be-reaved and interest In the question as to the responsibility for the catastrophe catas-trophe We were about to call it the accident But it was something more than that The coroners jury Messrs Bowus I Vickers and Gamble after Investigation Investiga-tion found that the deceased were killed by an explosion of fire damp possibly augmented by coal dust For both these conditions somebody was responsible The jury do not go so far as to fix that responsibility If the mine was foul from this noxious gas and dangerous danger-ous from accumulated coal dust was not that the fault of the company that own the mine And if so are the owners own-ers not In duty bound to see that the widows and children of the victims of their neglect are properly provided for Nothing can compensate those sorrowing sorrow-ing people for the loss of their dear ones shockingly mutilated and hurried into eternity by the awful blast in the darkness of the pit But what can be done to meet their wants should be the care of the mining company Although it is a separate corporation It is understood that it is identical with the Central Pacific railroad company We suggest that the proper thing perhaps per-haps the cheaper thing for the com pany to do is to pay a fair sum to each of the bereaved families without litigation That has been the course pursued before The matter is left open i by the coroners jury It would not be if presented to a trial jury I I The subscriptions for those unfortunate I unfor-tunate people should go on Everything I that can be done to alleviate their immediate im-mediate necessities should be attended I to The Tabernacle choir in this city will give half the proceeds of their I splendid concert next Saturday night I to the sufferers The public should swell the fund But the Central Pacific Pa-cific people can afford to be very generous gen-erous and we hope to hear that there has been no need to compel by law that which should be voluntarily bestowed from charity and a sense of justice I |