Show r INCREASING HORROR HORROR OF SCOFIELD DISASTER All tile the Public Buildings Build Have ilave Been Bee l Converted Into Charnal Houses t Giant G Powder and Coal Dust Caused C used the Explosions 3 Bodies Bod s Recovered Scenes and Incidents fr Special to The The Herald from a stall staff cor correspondent I respondent I fco ald LW UGh h Way May 2 cats catas catastrophe c tLc at the Valley coal col coalmines mines has developed to enormous pro proportions proportions portions It seems that at t least men Into hove been killed in this thi accident The accurate figures cannot be given Iven and they will wilt not nut be known k own fir r some ome me days The mine ma managers rs declare that I it ft will be impossible to secure a list lIet of ot names Iines eS until the dM bodies have been boon brought out cuL t and identified b Superintendent lt Sharp is in such a nervous and distressed cU r mental me condi condition condition condition tion that th he cannot talk intelligently on the subject He is greatly affected ed edby by the terrible accident Assistant Superintendent William cannot give ft But Bat there m e ebe be fiO O Dozens Dozi of men man seem em from accounts t given by ree ruh paz par parties p r ties Mes to be covered up with dirt duet timbers and debris Mr Sharp aaM ud Jd today that there were man meR n at the nth mine ne in Ia 1 and aDd 2 at the time of o the Ie explosion exi Of CM these W it t is impossible impo to account for foi more than tian sixty There 1 te Is such Bl t a hurry and aDd turmoil that those thone e who es escaped cape cannot all be seen However there IB Is great variance between the figures figur given by Mr M Sharp and Jiose th O given ld by 3 op Fannie mine intoe super imper r riz iz the third thI t in hi authority auth td tc t th the Provo I led Ly T TM M AI I laDU ai Reed R who who arrive iy today to t took look k after rt r Prove vIctIms victim Three Hundred Dead Mr smoot aaM d that there ther were 3 31 men m in IT the mine If that Is eo so o then more than are among the dead ead At 6 tonight IK 11 men fead hac been een recovered and nd the names of at all aU except several Finns are known If the tile mine superintendents figures res r are correct then saIf olf of the strangled and mangled bodies bodi are yet in the cross elOM entries e t and own ooin piled over debris and sunk BUnk away aay In lit noisome and killing fire damps ampe ft There is Js no DO f of or the miners working fin da 4 i day the com coin company company pany officials They say ay that there is 15 no flO record except the continuous continuo ous o us one whIch is I kept keit oft oto the books This is not r t made up every morning mor for W the e number of cars the mem ner me l lout send out is l accounted 8 by a system tem of cheeks It seems that the only way to get these tIie names name authentically Uy is to wait walt until u t l the bodies have bave come C out and are identified by friends friend relatives and ac acquaintances qu It is even impossible to gt the Hit of the these from the officers of the company The names secured were vere got cot at the dead houses a lie so the themen themen men were Were brought out and washed r Some were picked up at the mouths of or the tunnels as a the blackened and scarred miners were brought out This Thill Is 18 the only omy reliable way to set get et names Awful Scenes The scene ene of or death and carnage about this little mining camp which strings ita way out up and aDd down own Win Winter Winter ter Quarters canyon has baa been aa w i a ath ath th Uc and as 88 awful as ever seen Hell Nearly all ail the public buildings are filled tilled with dead The Mormon church meeting house just below the company offices es has baa every ry nook and corner filled with bodies washed and clothed in un underclothing d n ith white sheeting spread over each to hide th the picture leture of death These came from tunnel No 1 and I were taken out on Tuesday night There were w re this afternoon at 4 The public school hool houpe e in inthe inthe inthe I the omD cani m is 18 too filled with them the bodies mostly reo y of men m who were wert carried out of oC tunnel tu nel No 4 Some Seine are ue scarred aM blistered where the cruel flames of the tte burping burning dust licked them to tos s 1 death There are great holes in their skulls skulI and bodies where the flying and debris struck them Some Someno Someno no DO doubt were killed instantly IMf and aol saved the torture tor of the soaring iring s flames ame to were counted at 3 S i Another Charnal Chama House Eouse At William wards boarding hous houn the work of cleaning and washing and dressing the bodies as they came ca out of or tunnel No 1 went on First sixteen ero brought in during the morning and laid out in what was once his main dining room but what is now a char chari j i nal house In a little side room once a 8 bed room there hero are ra tubs of af water and te e frames of beds on which the thebe begrimed be and besmeared bodies were placed pl ce Their ng was torn off ripped rl p d off oft pulled off in ini any nr way but butI I by gentle and devout hands handa Sponge ge and cloths were applied and every bit bitof bitof I of at dust and dirt and blood wiped a away ay I When they were dried clean suits of underclothing were put on and the bodies removed to the outer room to I await the engine and nd Box DOX car which was in user use u all aU day lly y carrying them down downto to the meeting u use e or the th little school hooi hou ho The d c e so s and lie about in so mimy I nt at men and w fW ts nav have becom to the th sight of it ft it j 11 Wark of o esc e eThe Jg The rescue r 8 ti ln tuni s Nos j 1 jand and 2 haue ha ri O J ked IY nigh night t tand and daj d do c Biah t P e mine mini int nt iia h haa s 5 been bik b n a athe tJ he heat head of most of of but when When the bodY of his hlo brother William Parmley the thi foreman was found he h laid off In Inspector InSpector went in in early this morning leading fifteen ft en men and Su Superintendent Sharp who is almost almost i a nervous wreck spent spent all aU 1 the forenoon in the mine ml e and aDl after at r sleeping during th te JI on went In again this even life M is tf i tt he e in quel q it Att m y L O 0 Hoff Hoffman t man BUlB cam cama c me in on 0 a a special from frn Castle r Dale e during the afternoon n and he has hat ha been at it t work Lewis Jones J ne justice ol of of I the peace here is disqualified from I acting as Q coroner because of the death I of two of or his sons and Justice Hurst I Iwin will win act ad in his Ids place Active arrangements emen are being made for fat burial Collins Coffins tire ire in need Onh fifteen have arrived but ut more are com coming co ing bodies will be shipped 1 away t ten n to Coalville eleven to Ogden Ogder I Ian and ank an II many maxy ma to other i aces The Th great I number will b be buried burled here in the lit little littie tie tle cemetery Weiby has ordered section men from fren nil all over oV r the theline line ine to tc come como tomorrow to to dig dIg iQ graVes graes The Tiu coal company C will pay all burial ex cx n l CHARLES B IlL DOWNING GIANT GW T AND COAL DUST 2 CAUSED EXPLOSION l to io The Herald Hera Id from a staff cor correspondent correspondent respondent ry 2 State Mining In Inspector Inspector InSpector Thomas has been in the mine all aU day coming out only at short inter vala 11 n he be did dl appear he was so sc worn and aa overcome by the noxious damp that he h sought ought rest at once He did pot talk about the accident ent to any g great extent t for that reason but hit hIlt hIlti i investigations have not yet been corn com completed and he has hils formed no decided J opinion thou though h he be is half halt convinced I that the explosion caine from coal c l dust ignited W by a great reat flame from the ex cx explosion of giant powder f r either elt er in the open or Or by the blowing out of a blast blut I He h Is Is making more investigations and andI I will be b here till un the last of the bodies b is 15 taken out Until the Inquest has been held and andall a aall all ill the masts of r incoherent talk is in i I to succinct form fO on the witness stand tand he will wili not be bt in a position to t form fonn a settled opinion Inspector I to Thomas went vent in the mine Past last night at S 8 and remained till tJI early in tha th morning He will be beit beat at it work again after at t a very very short sleep II There is i as asyet yet no definite informs information tion Uon ns Be r t the cause cau e of this explosion I I Neither Meither Superintendent Sharp nor his hla hinI I H G Williams offers offs anything any anything thin thing but theories They Thy cannot c D t very i I wel do anything else at this time for or orI I there here is no man alive who was at the I immediate point of the explosion or orather I rather ather where here the first explosion took jP place I Two Explosions I According to tOt their st statements there I were rere two explosions the first bOng a aM aI I box M X of giant powder or a last blast and the second the explosion of oai coal dust It was this latter which lid fid the great damage The giant pow l I der dec may mey have killed those in its vicinIty vicinIty vicin vicinity ity but as these men work in n pairs not in erows that is riot not likely to tob have b ve killed more or thai than ar two or three Chree The dust explosion would of f course u e i run in all directions blasting tinS by Its ita concussion c and ln ith t flames fl flames me everything and anI av In reach Then rhen arose arOS the fe fearful 1 afterdamp ft d m I which is it a deadly poin I Those men mon killed in Int tunnel nIel No 4 or orthe orthe orthe the far greater gre ter number of them came cameto i ito to their death by the concussion and i ii ithe i the burning Those Th s found foun in the ross cross entries and ro rooms roOn n of tunnel t No o I 1 died through tha effects ff ts of the a after afterdamp ter damp that ome as the theres result t of ot the awful explosion Then it rapidly Der every nook and corner r of the cross crose entries ang l th r rooms oms it itt t c reached acro to tunnel UI i No lo I l through the joining drOss cross cross entries raises levels leveis or dips as they are are variously vari term termed d dIt It came upon the men men quickly and nd stealthily and they th were w r overcome over ome be before before before fore they could r w at was w s the matter Such was t the 1 experience ge of or 1 those t ose men mex who w ho o fd t ar the t e noise of ot the explosion Most of oft those m min mer merIn IJ in tunnel No 4 or in its entries ant an and who heard the sound souna ned Many others were ere blown to bj it for the concussion reached t to tc toof some of f th the entries of tunnel No l 1 Company Is Criticised The Thes 3 men do not blame the corn com company pany as a body They are too stunned at rot this time too hard at work hunting huntIn friends and relatives ante and Identifying the they come out dead deal to think thinh think ell cal bout anything But there We re remen men ho quiet cor lant almost under their breath against what hat thes tie call neglect neglector of the company SEI clare dare that the managers have neglect neglected ad ed the safety fety of the men Bien In failing tc to dampen am and keep wet the t ei coal dust duet which gathers in the mui s n ne the e OO S and I every everywhere everY where 1 Some of them em naye ye declared de e in very vry ven positive terms terme t had the th company kept this dust damp amp there would have ive h ve been no explosion for the te reason that Continued on rage Page P ge fl r I 4 E y C Ce Ml e 4 HORROR Of Continued d From Page P ge 1 there could i no dust in the theair theaIr theair air to explode i r rIn I Ira In all t tes tunnels is and nd entries the floor te Is perfectly dry said an old miner who wor eil in the t e mine off 0 ami and on for eight ew t jears ears II If x tills explosion was ivas Was CaUSed by dust duet there thu e er r would have ha va been beem lib ii explosion if there ther er had been leen Avatar wat ore bIb or if it had I dead d ad bodies searching for faces dear dai ones Though it rends their very veri heartstrings heartstrings heart strings anything rather than the aw fut fui suspense they are enduring rIng 1 Is wel wet welcome welCome Come one come It whether nire horrifying scents scenes scenes were ever witnessed than th e that are becoming so pitifully common c n her hOr In this one one little ittle town than 1000 souls It ie is 1 beyond b ond imaginations power DOwer to describe de rIbe the situation With frightful Ir regularity rOg g larity the piteous wails valls and maddening ening shrieks of a woman coming from some cabin on the hillside and ringing rinsing through gh the canyon are heard he rd hundreds 6 of yards away It i means only that some one from front the party of rescuers has imparted i arted the news of a fatality in iii that family Per Perhaps haps hapa it is a husband or a son or or both for there th re are many such instances as asa a aa asa a glance at the list twill show It isIh difficulty that these frantic frantIe wives and a mothers are restrained from fri U rushing Into the tha th tunnel mouths dared by y the rescues rescuers r It is not pot unusual to I 4 ir f 2 lk L 4 4 F i it ii 44 SCENES ABOUT THE TEE WINTER THE EXPLOSION f Nol No Mouth of No i 1 Tunnel and works The Th cross indicates the of 4 the tunnel In which scores of miners were killed by afterdamp No 2 Eden f Gulch showing the mouth of No 4 Tunnel and the tramway No 3 View 4 up the canyon if rom Winter Quarters The log building on the right is the 4 meeting house which is now filled with dead The building in the th ten tenter jen jenter ter is the Wasatch Store No 4 View up the canyon showing the school schoolhouse schoolhouse house now ow converted into a morgue No 5 Looking down the from Winter Quarters Scofield lies atthe at the bottom of the canyon to the left if I 1 1 le that th 1 0 the Inquest t vil be bf b held field today toda justice of 01 O Othe the tha Pe ce Hurst from precinct will sit in the case ease the th local justice j stice Lewis Jones J nes being b ing qualified b by thet the fact tact that two of his him family are amori among tb the dead The result re t of af the tl e Inquest inq in est is la of course cours 1 of the gravest importance to fo the com Om company comI pany Should it be adverse adver to them I it is that many damage suits would be planted by relatives reI of the I f dead men and at best aa a enormous I amount amount might have to be expended In iii compromising with them th ni I Major W H BIrd of Salt Lake rJ k City attorney for for the coal company com any was among those who arrived toddy today tod He tIt Heis tItIs H Hii i is ii taking an active acUe interest In the sit situation situatIon nation Williams Statement Although Alth ough almost beyond b th tb I powers of human endurance by the I events of t the e last two days Assistant Superintendent Williams way prevailed I UDon unon to make f a short statement to 00 tonight tonight night j vw F 4 4 4 44 i 4 1 I t e eY Y T 4 5 54 4 4 4 7 h i J I II Ic I c v I 3 gi 0 e Y rC I c I |