Show I MOST AWFUL DISASTER IN HISTORY OF UTAH Winter Quarters Mint No 4 Visited By a Terrible I Explosion Not A Miner Hat Hs I Come Out Alive Uve Dead D ad Estimated at I Ii 1 i 50 to j 1 Special Dispatch t Ie The Th herald frein i a i Staff StalY C Correspondent t Scofield 8 Utah May Kay 1 The most ter terrible explosion that the west has baa ever known took place in the Plent Val Yal ley Icy coal coat mines today The dead num DUm her bei and siut possibly poe bly more rine corpses were we stretched out tonight in the bern barn of the company at tunnel No 4 and at No L 1 1 I m Edwards boarding house at tun tuB tuni tunu Ii i If u i t No So i A had corpS They rhey were vere ere arranged in rows some 1 Lt ty v and with wit coal dust duat dustS S ut th rs cleaned and washed and placed paced pla I In n fl lows lowsOn On nn n each man as fast as he e was warn iden identified a ticket was wa t giving nc hI h j ame Th r were ere at each e place Ice mourn moura in ing men working hard arranging the tM 1 olic ard rd n ashing them thelia off GIr offIt GIrI offIt It I t was as a scene of denotation d n aIl aad de despair despair uh rueh fu h as WI has seldom seI been seen I IJ rh The cause eaU ci 8 of f this terrible tro eata I The are not known kl jn in tn detaiL Every Everything Everything thing hen heit is In a terrible state of tur turi i il and agitation so 80 that no ono one 1 seems able to tell the exact facts I Few persons ons ue bh blame the coal corn com t l lany for fo their lamentations have C t tTo I ITO to this time drowned everything else elite i They have hae not time for tor thoughts of I blaming any anyone one in cool reason for j they arc are so w o distracted di ted that they can cannot cannot II not think I Indescribable Inde criba Scene Seene 1 The Thi srn tonight toh At the two planes places p I where the bodies bodiee are being beine brought om It lJ Ut MOB W almost In bable ie The TIM MId sorrow f an nour in ta the tile day y I had hod given place to the deep dead cahn lm c that follows tragedy tr edy This tragedy I is s upon a hundred homes homM in I Little children have been left without J fathers and wives have been left with without without i out Husbands I These T dead doad oad are victim of the awful of a coat coal du dust at t explosion j Tho Th explosion occurred at t this morning and ever eels since aee that time there I Ihas has bean a terrible condition of af affairs f fairs here hert The d day A shift of about 0 X Then men went to work at 7 1 Of 1 these thise Se hardly Ml i have beeR accounted I l 1 hr r Th Tho exact number of men me who i went in the he t two cannot I Itc 1 I tc r o learned learne ci for tor there are no fl 1 2 orda K kep p of them the The only i ity ir ty y to h ull ll the dead is in when they the 1 1 i re e identified by y friends f and Del ances anc after they have hae been bee brought out oat i ai irl 1111 d washed The Tho T explosion slon which lt ignited the coal coald d ht lust u t is il thought to have occurred about T j 1 hal m le from the mouth In Ia tunnel Nt co 4 Debris lines the tunnel so that th t li progress of the rescuing parties i Is s been difficult but their greatest is the terrible after damp v t ich permeates every cross entry and andt t ery ay iv room roem in the mine The best beat m iu mf f nr that can be obtained niece V th explosion a half mile mUe in tn inNo inNo No One On Survived No So ont one on has come out alive to ten tell the U thet Uit th it t try TV ry so o far No one could Hare e hi tit titI h sue o I lace The company has two tunnels w into lAto tt Ita t j One begins in the gulch Jot Jet Jota Jeta a fe few feet above aboe the railroad rai tIa tra J and runs more than two miles hato the aae of coal eaI No 4 begins up a gulch south of the track probably a quarter of f a mile from It and runs v uth As it is a comparatively c new tunnel It ha hu not been cut In so far tar tara faris a is 4 the old one The two Join in se seil sev sevC C at al il platos a through the meeting of TOSS entries eat rica which run east from No Nol NoI N l I and from No 4 Consequently the t he mine is joined HO so th rt it is possible to go in one tunnel and out of the theother theother theother other Probably of the men were wert in No 4 They ere scattered over aver a wide area for or these miners Jo o mt nn n t work in bushes b hes The work in at the faces of cross s entries and aDd In hi the then numberless n rooms Force Foree of Explosion The first fint sign of the th explosion x came No 4 apon On l the hill bIll where fierce force was wrought at the mouth f 1 the tunnel A terr hie wind swept oit it ll of th tho small entrant e Jack Wit Wil n fl a b oy bY y who drove ears cars into the winE hail ball an awful ex nonce E Just as a abe ab be b was waa entering nering driving hon boras s sf f ached to coal ears cars ca the blast cam casio nor s w were re struck k down two of them being piled up dp c covered vered with th dirt timbers and debris The third was waa wa 11 d above i the cars blown over overhill hill hem y yards ards to the other side of rh 1 where it wa was found dead Th The b bus j s experience was wis the more marka e still He was shot Mot through the which is 01 H n fe feet n 1 gh h by nine vide ride and earned away awaya a rose tn t le gulch at least lea ISO lO yards among the small trees tr and underbrush s Si range iange to sa Ray eay he was waa not Ji l d ini imd as a h ho was among amon t ti tae sent fM nl to tn Sa Ha on in th tho tri a ai f i TArbert were torn a away aay ay from th tho o roof and sides aides of the tunnel tupe and were plied piled in a mass lane No Nomen men escaped aped alive f from the mouth of No 4 two were brought t out but they would hare leve died ded j if they had bad been left to their th own ef efforts efforts forts in the dark hole filled with after damp P PAt At No 1 there was not the sam samp n The men meu heard beard no nn noise neise se those who escaped e did not know that an explosion had occurred there was no furor of flying hying timbers and ud debris to Indicate anything of that kind they I were far removed from the scene cene of death de th and aDd carnage arnage Pelt Felt the Terrible After Damp Damps In No 4 some of ot them at M lenot those who escaped were more than a mile away way but working in their many miny rooms and aDd in the cross entries they felt the terrible afterdamp coming ng and I the sickness l which it brings Probably I many of ot them did not know what it was jt there were other miners older and more experienced who knew the I trouble There was a wild fierce rush from cross entries and Ul moie for the Ute tun tunnel tunI I nel net which leads out into listo the te open ojen air airI I How many man fell tell by the wayside id and andi i how many man were caught cau t and aDd suffocated in their rooms will not net pe be known R un us until til UI the damp d p has wJ been blown bown out CHIt CHItI o t I and escapes I Men who managed to come out and r there may be tell teU a story of 01 f fear rr and anguish in the OI hole I mountain Some Sae of e them theta nearly all aU w Some who could not Ddt were overcome o a 4 J liM their comrades comrade rushed on to life beyond beYo cI I As 8 men mm fell tell others fell felt over wet them Some were unable to get up and aM they I lay down and the after damp crept crent I upon them and an poisoned them Those I far back ba k conk not come conic out for the tile damp travel n 1 fast tut and it came noon n I them thee so se that they were weakened They co not DOt keep up the pace I against the march mareb of the gas and they have ba Ve been found In hi all aU haves aMli I and ADd forms torms crowded together to and piled p on top tp of each ech other some senne turned aimed face own down wa to the ground to I catch a breath of air all allTy Ty DI Dl d Together A father ta and aDd son were locked hi In each others othe arms arm They sey had ll died led together as an they fell feU suffocation coming upon unon them The TIle only explanations ata of the sent acci accident dent deBt are ant am at heat best hut but the theories theories ories Nearly everyone seems see to agree that the ue ignition t of coal cesi du dust was the cause cee but W G Sharp the superintendent who was w early on Oft Ue I 1 t ground and who after breathing the coal damp in efforts to r the hd ead and aad dying maintains that there ue never was any dangerous gas hi In this mine Many lIany of the the men who were W seen Hell last Jut J night say too that they never encountered terel t any dangerous gases He said Mid that there must have bave been a large body of oJ 0 flame Dante caused by b a blown biown out Mast Mastor i or se 1 by y the explosion of giant powder I which Ih the miners miner use This liaise flame would cause cau e the coal dust du t to ignite seed and adda 1 then da resulted a terrible explosion All AU the Miners Killed i All Al the miners to In the bv M l lof of this explosion were of seams course ku ka k ed instantly and the tunnel seed and timbers timber fearfully torn up This n pit has not DOt DOtI been reached so that the dI done I there cannot be learned I But it U was the after damp which killed most t of them Of the men who were brought out from bom No 1 and who are in Edwards Edward boarding boardinghouse boardinghouse house hoWle every one was killed blUed by J the Ue damp there is not one who wh w was a burned or scarred in tn any way They are not s marked but lay on the floor dead ead wits with the appearance of any e core Of the who came from tunnel No 4 nearly all ail are Jre burned and scarred and aDd wounded some beyond recognition They were caught where the flames raged fiercest t and were roasted ed to death Many of them have hav their hands and feet feM burned away one mans man head bead is I blown half off oft and a lit little little littie tle tie boys head heal was wag earned carried away The I body lies among the others at atthe the b barn barnon un unon on the hilt hilL Work of No S sooner was wae it understood to be bean bean bean an explosion than Bishop Parmley headed a rescuing party of twenty men ann ana tried trip to pin gala an entrance entra Into No Ne 4 I through tile the th opening of No 1 but the themen themen men were soon mon forced back by the Ute tire Are damp Bernard Benard one of the rescuing party was overcome by gas and was with difficulty resuscitated Finding the rescue impossible by this th l route the parties then headed for No 4 Here hey her found the air beginning to circulate and after clearing dearine away the fallen and nd dead horses at the mouth of the mine they entered about ard w when ien they came caine upon the tho 1200 dead bodles of at eix elx of or the tM men John Kirton was wu the first one brought out at 12 1 his hl whole scalp lp De be beI belag lag ing burned to a cinder and his face un unrecognisable unrecognizable I recognizable recognisable He was still stilt alive and I apparently conscious crying out in hi ina agony a for his fellow comrade comrades to end his I misery millery by killing him Mm on the tot toot IH In the meantime John Wilson on who woo had bad been blown bloWn with his hl horses nearly IH lii yards rde across ac the canyon from the mouth of the mine had been discovered ered and was taken to te whis his home borne The back of or his skull was crushed and some BOrne solid substance had bad b ben IL driven through up his hie h abdomen abdom He Be left here o oI a special train trin for Salt t Lake lAbs eW W to b attended d in la the j i r i s ie who 0 wae as g Q ib ya from free the mouth month of t the Mine ane e m en tb te outside had his right rItt foot crushed back bul hurt burt tt and shoulder r I knocked out of place i Sandy Wilson WI t ta also a o l on ost the Ute outside was hit bit by flying 1 timbers and his Ids life I is despaired of Harry arry Taylor had his bin jaw broken and Jolla John J Beddoes Beddoe e was wu severely bruised These men were wen all aU on ott the outside OtI de The r party inside the mIte mine I discovered William in III inthe Inthe the midst t of several dead as an assistance he walked to the mouth of vi f the thet 1 4 1 I t a UT K t tT tr tArt I T r t tt i C 4 r I Art t 4 t 4 11 Springville who bad only just ju t entered the mine a 8 few minutes before with UI h assistants WS ds found with his Instrument ment set while white he and his hi men lav v dead around it By this time a hundred stretcher ns bed arrived while white the company store had bal also ateo been stripped of all tin its blankets and pillows with a 8 view vies to oaring caring for the wounded but it soon be became became became came apparent that there were no wounded In the mine All were dead dd As met fast as the bodies were removed r they were ware carried to the company barn rn across ae th canyon nyon and Md turned over to toI t tI t I I Mr Macintosh ho o superintended au tit kUa families have bear becJ swept ga I by this accident ent In some soine there are areas are as many ny m as four killed In others three and two land Probably the most moat terrible catastrophe pile phe ph has come to the Wilson Wil on family I Sandy Wilson Wili n the father who wa was un the outside of ef f tunnel No o 4 was Wy blown blow eighty feet and his bin leg lag wj broken and he received other injuries His Hie son Jack was blown a tIt gulch Three Thre other sons have ben been brought out of ot No 4 dead They are Sandy Jr Jr W J James and Bill What inas ma es th the accident to them theta more heartrending is the fact that the wife of Sandr In jr was confined three days daS ago Oa and 4 she is 18 lying in a critical condition Whole Families Dead In the Hunter family Robert Hunter the father two sons James Jam and ruI James JamesC C are dead Five of Roberts brothers are me dead too Four of them were mar married rind ried and ad several leave lesve children Of the family faintly Dave and aisi Tom the latter of 0 whom hom te Js married m 1 are among the dead Louis Louie Jones lost two sons sox and two One ORe of the sons soua tevan lilvin van Who escaped was as td t tita have ita ive ve been married Bob and his son were killed Moet Moc of oT those that have boYe been brought out nave been identified ed l There was not steep around the min mins minI I at neither r one o oTh of t the tunnels ele Danish t I Bodies Bodie blackened ened and dirty with coal p r I 1 I 11 t fr ct TN Th TNt t mine and was wu aved The Tile after ster damn delayed the work of the party but the mag magnitude of the disaster soon mon became me apparent All AU men on the raise known as u Pikes peak were dYing firing In clusters County Commissioner Dead John James Jamea ties the county a was found with his hils ton boa George Geor e entwined entwined en entwined twined in loving lovil embrace in each others arms They had apparently re realized realized realized that that death deth was wu cowing for all aU aUre were re found as a though In Ia attitudes of defense Some had their cloaks About 1 them others had bad tried to protect them themselves themselves I selves by burying their faces In the I I Ito ground floor df dt the mine hoping thus to escape the deadly ly gas BBS that was fast enveloping them They must mu t have lived for some time In prayerful expectation of rescue reaching rueh ftc them theta Bernard DoualL the promising premising and enterprising young engineer from were being W washed and clothed l suits satin of underclothing under were nere sent up tip I IJ from rom the t h e company c O m p n y store and a nd M an the tit e b were cleaned they were pt put into t clothing and were placed away way At J Js u boarding house they ther were pu ht Jt ft i side roam and end at the barn Imra on onu 11 u 1 they 1 tY were put in lD the stalls four r rown down own on og train tiiu from hom in Lake He was at the mine last night nI with t tie ae rescuing r c party He will make JR a aJ thorough Investigation as to the |