Show HELPLESS S WOMEN AND CHILDREN Special Sped pecla to The T Herald from a 8 Staff Correspondent Corre Scofield May 3 Scores s of families left destitute at one crushing blow blew bIO Eight hundred at least lea and probably bly more women women and an children without means of support and yet the horror is lc not half told toM To understand the story of this terrible visitation a glance at atthe the town Is necessary sary but to realize its it awful extent is 18 1 not within the minds conception There can be benot nothing not ing so 80 pitiful as the sight of hun hundreds hundreds hundreds of widows and orphans orphana under i circumstances ces such as these It is reasonably certain ce O men nen are dead and a conservative estimate places the number of husbands and I fathers them at t over half The families will III average five live mem mom members members bers each and in most cases cas their thir breadwinners have been bt eo stricken down wn There are ar aI instance tance In where a grown son has bee been betm spared to make the living Jiving of the family ai seme somo seme homes will be kept up for a time at least on lodge benefits and other in insurance Insurance ran ce But the great mass isa is la l desti destitute destitute tute and are drawing now now on oi credit at the store More which refuses refu them nothing The miners miner deal with the Wasatch Store company through a coupon book system These books are issued is to the les at at an time 6 the month but axe are not paid Dl d for I until pay day dey which is the tenth Not until that day do the miners pay for forthe tLe the goods used up to the 1st lat of the month pre ious consequently con many mony died in debt deit Money earned from April 10 to May 1 is due duo them thom lees leas the amount of f their merchandise What action n the company will take with regard to the accounts has been given no thought in this terrible hour of disaster Many believe the debts will be cleared by the company eo The average family lives on 4 a and some on 25 Rent is 19 about 8 8 and the men earn more thaw than the cost of living but very few have h ve put money aside ankle nor are they insured Now and then one finds a man who has baa taken n out a policy polley but partly through negligence and ard partly through their Inability to carry the benefit benedit the great majority are No Insurance ln company has worked the town In ten years It ft Is populace bere here hi s tonight Tiling will wm willbe willbe be straightened out eventually ly and m the widows and anci orphans an will manage to live But how hew That is la l the tb great question H N WHITNEY James Jam a son of ot Thomas Thonas N was ws wasat at work in No Net 4 was owns thrown about feet teet 1 it t escaped serious injury l jury The boy bey went want nt into the th mine again with the rescuers res Miss lII B Lizzie dark Clark rk is in a precarious condition through being informed of I her brothers death She h has a scarcely L been sinca the news was broken to her but she sha Js is not dead de d As s f was rumored Yesterday H H Earl Erl t rl president of the town board of Issued d i a apr proclamation pr ordering all saloons to remain closed cI for two days d ye on op account aee of the fhe mine disaster di ster The order was a strictly observed and the th tb calm calzi of or death that has haa has over ov r the city remains unbroken en Foreman of Df No 4 was found nIong the dead yesterday esterday afternoon h J 1 his body being terribly H R N WHITNEY wm y |