Salt Lake Herald | 1900-05-03 | Page 6 | Carload of Coffins

OP OF COPPINS CP FIN Special Freight Started Start d to Sc field Last Night NightA A carload of coffins was started st last night for Scofield There were 15 1 of them each boxed separately They will encase the bodies of Of bf the Winter Quarters victims More coffins order ordered ordered ed eti from front Denver on Tuesday y night were w re due in Scofield late last Jast ia nights The caskets from Salt Lake went by special freight train In addition to the boxes for the dead den went help for the living It was in the th h shape sh pe of ofa a carload nf rc r rr 3 which will il HA hp d di I at the earliest possible moment to i these e ein in need of them The bulk of the pro came frol Armour Cos Coos local branch as asia a voluntary contribution All of the e undertaking establishments in Salt Lake worked unremittingly to get out that carload of coffins coflin EVery casket of the kind that could be found here was waG used and arid others had to be telegraphed for at Denver S D Evans who ho la in charge ch rge of the arrangements for the funeral fun al sent ent two assistants to Scofield yesterday morning morning morn morning ing Two more will leave reave for the scene of the horror today The undertaker said sald last night that everything possible po ible was vas being done do for f r the dead He Heth thought th the morticians of Salt Lake had responded r ly to ta the theun un demand made upon them and nd that considering he lie difficulties under which all had labored the work was accomplished In remarkably short hort time