Salt Lake Herald | 1900-05-04 | Page 6 | Scenes and Incidents of the Catastrophe

SCENES MB INCIDENTS OF THE CATASTROPHE Sped io to The Herald front from froma a SLag Correspondent Scofield May 3 An old Finn FinD who could not weak speak a word of English or even write his hie own name wandered into In to the dead house looking lookin for five sons Ho He could not make out the names on the tags tap and could not make the man in charge understand what he wanted He went from corpse to corpse lifting the cloths from front their fares faces and weeping bitterly until he be hewa wa was advised adv to go and get a Finn who could speak The old man aint ambled led away on thIs arrand errand and when he with his hi interpreter found the of three of his boys The Theother Theother Theother other two tw are doubtless in m the mine mineA mineA A party of miners cleared leared out of No 4 about three minutes be before before before fore the explosion occurred giving place pl to the surveyors who were led by Bernard Dougall The fact that both parties could not work at the j I i J f 4 i 4 1 rL r p C k 7 I TOP OF OP NO 4 SHOWING POWER HOUSE BOUSE AND TOOL HOUSE t THAT WEBB COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED k i I same nTh time ti is responsible Po e ble for foi the escape pe 01 uie De miners Young Jack Wilson who was shot out of tunnel t l No 4 a 8 distance of I feet being amon r the th wo taken taen to St Marks Mar s hospital was ww in high fa favor favor favor vor with Sharp Shar for an act of bravery performed at the th time of the Castlegate several months ago The boy had been sus MW suspended t I for some violation of the rules t p but being beiRe near neat the mine w when fi it 11 was vas I feared many lives were were ere imperiled rm he was one of the first to rush into the I tunnel to the work of rescue rescue Superintendent t Sharp noted It put the lad at once to Work wor ork again n and aad was afterwards heard hard to remark That boy can have a y in this mine that he wants On every hand words w of lJ commenda commendation I tion for the energy of Shard Sharr are heard h erd rd Said Sid one of I his friends His gray hales hal can be III II accounted for by b running these mines