| Show I i I I G OUT BODIES FROM THE TUE TUNNELS Special to The Herald H frOm fr m a 3 staff cor correspondent correspondent respondent Scofield Utah May 3 5 a m mTh There re were scenes of tragedy tr gedy and pathos aboUt the mouths of the two to tunnels al alday all allday day d There were werl crowds awaiting anxiously an I the arrival of f every ear car c r that tha came lIne C bearing the dead Women were mixed in just a few for the men did not think thin it the proper place for th theIr ir wives vives and sisters and others and kept kep them at home The women remained around Edwards boarding house th the theold theold old Winter Quarters place and they scanned each corpse as aa a it was carried I down from the tunnel mouth At No 4 which is away up the gulch making a aI steep hard har climb there were fewer I persons The Te most of the bodies bodie were brought out of No 1 and that place was wa naturally tb the center Six begrimed b and blackened men were were taken ten from No 4 early in the he day an anthey and they the were we taken to the barn and wash washed washed ed e These Thee wore men meI from the tunnel near ner where the explosion must have oc occurred occurred occurred for they they were burned fearfully Their hands hando were charred till ti they were stiff and black blaek and unless moved with wih great get care ce would break brek off of Their facea facco face were burned till ti great geat ma masses fes of skin pulled off of leaving the cold skin sn exposed The Te eyebrows ws and beards bearda and hair were almost burned away But they were ere handled handle carefully under the supervision n of Mr lr Mackintosh washed and clothed with and car carried carrie ned ried rie away down to the school house hO Ge at atthe atthe t the bottom of the gulch The next lot lt lotof l e of eight came out later in the he day da They were as as badly burned as the oth others others others ers and md they had bad ha been brought from tie t e same Bame vicinity re The rescuers had to climb over debris distance timbers ad caved aved walls wals much of the We got in where the explosion must t tI have occurred said one of the men me t and then several veal rooms rooms had adb ben e t partially caved 0 ved in Room 7 in the first Jevel level of ft No 4 tunnel was w caved If in inand and If I there are any ny men men in there t ere they th y yare are buried beneath heaps of s coal cO l j t Room 10 O was wa T These ee i I sow saw ow i 1 Others of te art tn more in the t therne e ei i same B Ie rne condition We e went all aJl the way to the end of the tunnel and examined more than half hal of f the rooms rooms Bodies odies In the Tunnel Other parties that have been bean ben in on onI I subsequent rescuing re expeditions exam examined em emine med ined ine farther and ad now it is 15 believed that all al bodies in No N 4 exposed above th debris and timbers have been se secured secUred cured cUr How many men me may be buried beneath the giles 1 e of pf coal l is s not non flown nonI It I Ia 16 I thought arid and zd the te officials them eho l 0 can en give t we l no ire positive ve Ifo ma thin tion that tha bl Y ninety men in tunnel 4 the i of f the explosion If H that ii i hse se there must be thirty five bodies b S y yI the tunnel tunnel For there have bave been i but b t five e brought ought b out sharp and a ai d his assist assistant Int ant nt William Williama Y d id 5 not think that so many yet et remain in the mine mine They do doot donot donot not ot are me more than han this thi umber Jn nl bj th tunnels together Strike Among Rescuers The Tha k on J I pd down for I I f a time tim in the morning and n there was something of a strike antong the res rescues cues of f them were were in at 3 clock and nd three of them believed that the he leader r Bishop was was not taking aking proper precautions against the left l t That broke brok up the party and nd the e others other came cm out No o party went weIl in 11 last las night to this tunnel t and there th re wat wash was in reality but butone butone one ne r crew at work that in hi No 1 The efforts at at No 4 were ere devoted last ast tast flight to debris cleaning away aw y the an and nd timbers Umbers from the mouth in so that the he cars Cf can be used to haul out the debris and ana search serch for those miners who are burled buried under u heaps epps of coal coal For it i must be understood that the bodies bodies found In II tunnel No o 4 were carried out outon stretchers on n Ome S of them mor more than thana a ii half mile mie over fallen timbers and piles pIe of coal c broken down from the walls vails wals Though this hm hib been difficult and nd tedious work ork the miners miner who ho sur survived ived their comrades have l y labored lab r he h When the work became more than they could cud do from the great geat dis dr tance ance that it would uld be arv to I carry orr some s of f the he bodies they were war e turne turned over to parties from No L 1 1 Three were ir brought brought out through this his tunnel tunnel Edwards Edwards boarding boarding house which ha hasben has ben been b en the receiving re e place for the bodies from rom No twentysix bodies bodles pam through it today od y There they were and dressed in new suits of under underclothing hing before being sent down downto to o the Mormon meeting house houe The first firt lot ot was brought out In cars car and there were sixteen men mel who were blackened but hilt most It of them thE had no scars They were ere the th victims vl of the r deadly after afterdamp afterdamp t r damp dap Then another lot of five came out at about 3 Ten In rn IOne One family There There were vere about the mouth of the anxiously I Theres Adam Adai Hunter unter hd nd d Ills his is boy b y John said a miner with ith tears in his eyes eye that Wa t Iad made ten sn l dead in the Hunter family faly and a d they leave six widows I Isme some with little Itte children hidren The bodies bodie were vere yere blackened and an burned bune Hunters Hunter I fingers were crisp crip The boys boyts eye was wa almost torn out i and the blood had trickled dawn over oer the burned burnEd cheek Adam dam Hunter and nd the little fellow not more t thil n 14 age t gr at iu l bor geU er eras as miners They Tey T ey died in each others others I arms j t J 1 There i was w sin ha ane car Toni Tom Tm Par Parrish Parrish Parrish rish and his eon Bon on Bob who likewise worked together and Harry Wilson Wison one of three thren Wilsons who ate arV dead The father nd another son are ae re among among those taken ta en fo St SL Marks lIar hO in Salt Sat Lake l e s Then another car c came out ut C during rhu the late afternoon bringing five more Will im and George Clark David Ellsworth and aid ad an unknown n Finn FinnAll FinnAll All Al these were cleaned clean d and addressed dressed and sent ent down to the Mormon ormon meeting meetinghouse hous house The Te rescue work went on in inNo inNo inNo No 1 llast last night one crew at a time was in the mine looking for bodies while It i battled batte with the afterdamp It I was w led by the company inspector For Forrester Forrester Forrester rester rester who has ha recovered from his brought on through his exer exertions exertions tons Tuesday night The rescue work has been arranged in shifts sift Six hours lou will wi be given to each nine and they are being worked during d ring the whole hours hour of the day The rescuing crew orkin last Jast night got gt all alte the way around into tunnel l No 4 4 by the the connecting cross entries Their Th progress is slow because they he drive the afterdamp in front of them thE A few breaths br of it i incapacitates a man and they da do not dare get into it i rY T t |
