Show I I FOUR MINE VICTIMS BROUGHT TO lu SALT T lAKE I LAKE P Arrived Here Last Las Night on o Special Train From Scofield c Al All AlfAre Are B Hurt and Some S Will Probably B j eat Excitement it in the City Over the Accident I Half an hour hoar ol No 3 on the Rio Grande Grands Western was wu to I arrive in Salt SaI lAke Lake Ike last night there was a sorro little knot bot of anxious us m men n and l collected col i upon I the platform a the tb depot dePot Despite the tho ct t that the connecting train left See Scofield I fi field Id twenty before the mine horror r occurred the anxious watchers hoped agal hope that there perchance perchance per perchance I chance might be some BOrne one upon the train who could bring tidings tiding of their loved ones one Upon the arrival of the train e minutes minute overdue the t e hope was shattered a roundup of the passenger failing to produce any anyone anyone anyone one from the scene ne neThen neThen Then as it was epa announced that a ape special special cial dat had left lt bearing the wound wounded ed and at 1230 a m the crowd melted away to besiege the of offices flees and Paymaster E L Carpenter and the newspapers uptown for tor fur further further I Ither ther particular with the I query Have no DO lists of killed come cometo to in yet I Among Amo the numerous callers at The Herald was one eu pathetic case cue in par particular particular particular I in the person Berson of T P Williams I of 61 17 South SO b West who having hating I I I I just heard rd the t th news at 8 p m in drove up to the in a light cart which conveyed bin hie wife and three little mites of children Williams said that he had two brothers b and I a like Bite num number bar ber of brotherlIn employed in No 4 mine At SM Williams and aD his hie family were upon J the iM depot platform awaiting wn tn with that hat b at knot of people pe r F o le e special with W th ita its 7 Depo DepoT in in Darkness Owing to t l failure of the electric lights in the of the depot the I place pl oe Ae was practically UY in total dark darkness darkness ness mess lighted ip tp p with the occasional lantern of the switchmen and the lamps of the St Marks ambulance and the patrol wag n which had been b n sum Bum summoned summoned to transport the living victims or of the to the hospital As soon mon as sa th the whistle of the special was as heard the crowd of o some hundred people surged down own to the track and before the engine with its two cars had come to a standstill the train tM was boarded bearded by as many as s could grasp the th hand rails rail Despite pite De the Arm Irm attitude of the po police police lice officers who ho were present several men bad had entered the car before the doom could be locked looked against them while women stood wringing their hands upon the platform asking in liv tearful voices whether Torn Tom or Will was among the Injured Inside the car an aft appalling sight was waa in evidence There stretched upon has hastily hastily tily thy prepared pallets lay four coal dust forms attired in their rough rou shoes and clothing which they wore at the time they were stricken down dawn by bythe bythe bythe the fatal blast Over in hi f e northeast corner lay William Boyter Jr 1 with his head and face save for a hole cut through which to breathe swathed in bandages band es and oiled silk Uk He was badly burned and suffering from bruises all allover allover allover over his hig body Next to him lay l la Harry Taylor in inn nearly n as s 8 bad condition Across tie the t e aisle aIsI lay father and nd son SOIl in the persons persona of Alex AleC and John Jj L Wilson The for former former former mer at the time of the explosion was standing thirty feet t distant from the mouth of the shaft The elder seemed to be the only man who was W 5 conscious ious of his surroundings s although suffer suffering suffering ing lug from a broken le severe l vere contusions and possible Internal injuries John L Wilson the young man was the most seriously Injured of or the quartette quartette quartette having borne bon toe the full fuU brunt of the explosion at the mouth of the tunnel and being blown O feet teet down the can canyon canyOn yon yen with the r sut tt that the back of ofhie his hie skull was c like an eggshell so much so that th Ira A A J of Helper and who accompanied I the Injured men m n to t town from front the scene of the entertained grave gran I doubts as to his hie recovery recover Owing to w the thelt ambulance ser er service vice at t the tho command of orthe the doctors but two men m n were taken t n to the hospital in inthe Inthe inthe the ambulance and t d the patrol wagon under the direction of o Dr Bascom while his colleague remained in the car ear with Boyter Bo ter and ana senior r Wilson for forthe forthe forthe the space of seventy et minutes m until the return of the Robert Beatie nea eatie ie Talks My 11 God said Rob Beaus Beatie the man manager mAnager manager ager of the Winter Vi mer Quarters mercantile mercantile mercantile tile establishment e as he be off the special hr I cannot bear even to think about It It Is I an awful thing and affects everybody y at Scofield Not only are arc fathers lathe taken away but whole families for the boys bors as as aa they are aro old enough to work earn en a living livinS in the mine I Ik cant can ciu t say sa Just how it happened I heard heam the t roar rear distinctly down at the be store and knew at once what had taken place When I left they had just started to take takeout takeout takeout out the dead and nd it ft was ri wu an pa awful sight Mr lr Bootie Beetle after a pause proceeded to give gye his hin opinion as to the cause of the accident He lie said As far ar a as r I Ican I can make out it was wa caused e by an tx es esI I I of coal coni co dust dut du t which had become I Ignited by a blast If It it had been eon con confined on fined to No 4 mj ht not m t have bees been bad bad but M tt to N No 1 f with the th result that both ends end of cf the th tunnels caved in entombing all aU threw t M who ho were Inside Inide When aed ed to 0 8 give v an of or the number of men mt n who were wert shut shu UD up in that awful death trap he be said that hat he be was walt not prepared to do BO so fiat bat t I t he would not be at all surprised if IC the death roll roil exceeded 00 In li the course of a conversation F L Carpenter who met the thEs si at ial idl at the depot he stated that the th ad t ci dent was waa wa the last thing looked for COLas aa as the mine had never been heeD in lit ina ina lita a dangerous conditi m n The object of Beatle Beaties Bt atle visit Isit to salt alt Lake was to purely HD some scene 17 for fer th bodies bodle of tN t th dead men Mr AIr Beatle Beatie who has hall at a one stroke strobe lost nu numerous numerous friends friend and relatives In th the tw w ful tul catastrophe was wa too much over fer overWrought wrought with ith the trying experiences of or the day and the trip up to Salt Lake in tn company com any with the mangled men to tJ togie give gin a consecutive and a nd concise tate state statement a 1 ate ment of the terrible affair Dr Hol qui t Theory Dr A J Holmquist of Helper who had been summoned to the scene of the mine horror shortly after the and subsequently sub accompanied the in tn men to St Marks hospital when ahen seen this tt morning stated that all the th medical assistance tance that It H was wan possible to summon to Winter Quarters wa was ar arming ming on the scene when he be left there yesterday Prior Poor to th the time of his departure he be stated that including Dr Bascom m and himself there were Bra Drs Fisher Fi her H 15 Ii of Castlegate and Dr A Is la lagreen Isgreen Isgreen green of Scofield upon the scene Unfortunately he said sald there was no chance chape of saving miring litTon With but very wry few exceptions exception life was extinct in the bodies of the men when WIt taken tOken from from their death trap Those e who still stilt few minutes af at tee ter they thet had nad ad been en taken td out into the open air He estimated that among the list of or casualties there were but ten men suf fering from injuries from which h they would recover with the possible ex op ep tion of John L Wilson The Th dm dUt doctor tor or stated that the cause of death was from the fatal after damp which fol foi followed followed lowed towed the explosion The ignition i of the coal dust consumed all alt the ox oxygen v gen in the air in the confined space of the tunnel which brought a speedy and painless death to the victims This statement was wag concurred in bv by b Dr Critchlow who was at t the depot to meet the special and convey the injured men to the hospital Dr Critchlow said that death under such circumstances was similar to losing consciousness ness un under under under der the action of anaesthetics anaesthetic MUCH INTEREST HERE Crowds Thronged Before Herald Bul Bulletin ul letin Boards Intense tenee I interest in the tern ten burro borro was manifest throughout the city from the time the first bulletin arrived All day long people thronged the sidewalk in front of The Herald Heral intent on learning more mere of the dreadful affair The interest it is cash easly accounted for when the fact tha thai many man many Salt Lakers have friends or relatives rela lying among the dead and arid in inJured InJured Injured la is taken into consideration and furthermore it is the most terrible ac accident cid nt and incurs IT nore Dore ore loss of life tile than any in the states stalls history Until after midnight anxious people thronged The Herald editorial rooms In search of information OD regarding this brother or that friend but none probably probably probably ably were so sa greatly affected as the TV Wilson boys boya Fireman James Jam F Wilson at No 2 received the appalling news new in a dis dispatch dispatch dispatch patch from his hie brother Andrew J 1 WIlson Wll on who conducts a butcher shop at Scofield at 7 p I m in last night I It read Sandy Randy and Johnny Johnn hurt and three boys k killed lied Come d down wa waIt It is almost impossible to conceive of ot ofa ota a whole family being lost at one stroke yet that is i what the brief message means Deans All the were well known in inthis inthis inthis this city Two of the brothers formerly run rIm a butcher shop on 0 n West South Temple street reet and John lived here for years with his family They are arf in injured injured InJured and may be numbered with the dead before this m morning while the three boys Ys Alexander r William and James are already gone pone Alexander was teas married being about 33 23 years yean old and hi hiti I brother broth brothers ere are a ad d 19 l and 14 respectively vely They are nephews to Fireman Wilson who wh left for the scene last night Brother Wan Wag Among the others w who ho bore great red re circlet e around their e eyes ea and spoke to in h trembling voices was wa David Brown a Salt Ii Ia Lake ke Railway conductor whose brother Thomas ThOmM Brown is probably fatally i n i Nicoll Hood who drove the first tint pick pie in No 1 searched in vain alII for word regarding his brother Andrew tore fore foreman man mann of No 4 and his nephew thew Andrew Andr John J Johnstone tone neither of or if whom were heard from until a lat Jat hour Ills His fears tears were weft relieved by a dispatch from fr h his s brother later in the night It said the th t br ther was Walt all right But the yOUng man is known to be under underground underground ground Deputy D Sheriff John B Commock Cumm who was In m Alma Wv Wyo Vy x at the time tine of an explosion not unlike the one of yesterday arid who if is f familiar with the property gives It aa as ashi his hie hi opinion ao a 5 do a gre great gnat tt many others other recently from there th re that th lt the horror oc cc through an in explosion of or gas ps or fire damp A party of surveyors has haa been at work underground for sore some olLe sometime tirre time i and aDd the theory is advanced that one ne of them carried an open lamp amp into an abandoned cave little heeding the danger of the flame edming c ming in c e en n D tat tart with ith the fire damp accumulated there thereAs As oon n as 3 word of the accident on 01 Page Puse 2 FOR MINE VICTIMS TO SALt tAKE Continued from page L 1 reached the te offices in the Dooly block Superintendent W G Sharp Shari left for mr the mine on a special train Secretary Carpenter in charge here A crowd of ous men lingered about the office waiting for authentic but news seemed to be lacking Caused by Dust DustA A nina man who worked in No 4 tot for nine years and quit work only last week gives it as his opinion that the lon occurred through the accumulation tin tion of dust underground It Is the first time in the history of the camp that an of this kind has occurred said he but it might have happened at any time The mines are full of dust all ali the time and men are employed whose sole business it is isto to wet down the Che accumulated piles The state mine inspector visits there regu reu regularly and the foreman makes it this bia business to see that the process of wet wetting ting down Is gone through with at short intervals I believe it wa was sim sm simply ply spontaneous combustion and it is dangerous at any time unless tro tF dust is kept damp No 4 No 1 and though there is some distance between the tunnels on 00 the surface the two mines are con cei connected footed underground No 4 is situated about of a mile from and it mines between ThO and lo tons of coal per day The shift that went on at 7 in the morning was i explosion There is no dwelling within y of the tunnel of No 4 and it is presumed that none were wrecked There were terrific results en the nut sur fare face around the entrance of the tun tuil tunnel nel The stables nearest buildings toM ai in I Ity were blown into many horses buze being killed It is estimated that will be re required to repair the damage to the company while loss 4 suIting from a delay in operating oa month at least will be great wea Most of the men employed In the mine are and speaking people A majority of oc the themen themen men are marriott married |