| Show Strange Noises and Ghosts in Scofield Mines MinesA i i iA i r J 4 A se who wio is js not in the s a hike tells tails a strange story Oy of QC t strange hiP and aad d superstitious beliefs bell among the tb miners at that nia pee J e Accord According lug ing to his bin story the Ute situation especially among the too superstitious Finns bor borders borden borders ders den closely efy on Ever Evernee vm since the fearful explosion of May Mey 1 last JaSt there have hue been beau strange stra l in III Ii the mines and andin in the cemetery whore where so many of the miners mi rB killed ht lit the tIte explosion were Weft buried burled Ax A a result of this condition rendition many of the t men mae asa are afraid fraid t te work in the mines and they cOuld not be hired for love lre or to visit t the graveyard after aft nIght It is stated that blue lights ts are to be wen sen any T dark night ni ht in the tile cemetery cemetery cemetery tery and that many of the tile miners are of the opinion Of it on that these the lights are ire irethe the th ghosts ghost of the tM dead d ad miners And furthermore at a 8 certain hour every everyday everyday day da from hum 12 1 to 2 and p are to be heard in i ia a mine mi e and many of the be men refuse reto to work in I n Ute the mine during that period Upon one occasion sal tins tills miner who tia the ory or I 1 went into the mine to work ork with a fellow miner ner After we had got well into the mine and near a place where a 8 number I of oC miners mine had Md been killed in the explosion my companion stopped suddenly turned white a ne a sheet meet and end trembled as though lie be bad had the palsy U Did you hear that voice k ee say NY Go bla k Jt Go back ck he be exclaimed No t said saki I there was M voice it was wa waS your imagination No o hr gasped gaped It Olt wa was not notion nation and I am a got goir r out He ran and I ran after him knowing know i lug that the nan man n hu lesti 11 uy gone cone Into hysterics and end that if left lea to himself he would come me to harm barm When WIma I sue suc succeeded in catching him he fought fht like lik a maniac man and aDd it took toot three men to hold hohl him We e carted carried him out oRt ou of the mine lOin mm e nod administered opiates until u til he ie fell tell asleep aslee but after aitel that he woold nee neve r so go into the mine again Many aDy other similar laMeness instances are related enough git to M ab hov tv that many maRT of the theold theold old miners and aud a good many of the new ones fairly tremble with superstitious fear ar as they work in te the tile mine And another thing s mid kl Id this inform informant ant there tere have hae been nearly nemly as 8 many deaths ut ead nd injuries in the Winter VIRter Quarters mines since May Kay X 1 i IWO as there were wen men killed on oa that fatal Say flay caused aU ed largely through the easing caving in of o 0 f I large quantities of oC loose Jones earth Hirth and coal Skit Sime Sia e the great shaking up the mines m men seem to be in such seth h a loose loom unstable condition ondi on that It U is unsafe ta to work ork in them Many any an old coal miner has hilts hasK walked K into the mines to work but af te r around has shaken his head bead and walked out saying Its It too dangerous a place lIKe for meThis me meThis This Th man IRan stated still further that he hi h t thought the conditions outlined above I fIe ere the chief causes of the strike The men mm are getting good pay from the Ute he said mid IK In t a great eat many man y of 0 them think that the old oed digging i should be abandoned and tile the work done do ne ia la new ae and aM safer er ground Why Wb the be ringleaders of or the strike are 25 making kIng 15 fi per par r day what better would a man sian n nant want ant than that I am inclined to think that Ute tie company desired JeS ed the strike to t be made M for an increase of 1 wages be cause it feared f red that there the would be H tL astrike strike anyway on the grounds that the were unsafe and ami haunted and if this thie occurred it would be a very difficult matter to secure eare men It to 0 take e the thel jaces l of the strikers EXPLAINED BY The above ahoe story stry stOry was submitted to Boye Be George d K Roomy oney the three men meD who are in the City cit a at ai the representatives striking miners The h hey hooted at the idea that at this had anything whatever hat er te t tee 4 with ith the strike i the statement as to the tIte number of ot accidents ats that tat had bad Jaa occurred ht In Ind i d he hf nines mines since inCe May L 1 1 and nIed that tha t the ue mines were more unsafe daa her I mines but bt they did not net dent denji den that thai t superstitions itlo existed to a z greater 01 or 0 lees leu extent e t nt among the Ute caper among the pans Finns P J 3 Rooney said that s te in company with ith others had bad investigated i Ute Use then n aveyard J story ry about a A alto ago They T hey found fouad that hat the be him lights were due d e to tu the moonbeams p telling falling tam eb b route roast letters ten on aft some of the new Def tomb A It As to th tho noises heard beard in the mines aft tt n the Ute men saW l tint that t it Wd all to hear m in coal Iral mines mla mm ca hot but batt that hissing were never nver heard beard x ept there was as gas and they knew kaew that there re was as ao no gas Ps in ta the thes s mines ReS Strange had d happened bap in the tIte mines IDee ami aIMIe some amee of the thein 1 in n had JaM convinced themselves these th lb rae bt were due title to some acme su Ill natural nathl causes caus For Instance t one on e man sian t teN td M of a car ear in Is the mine being Put Int across aruea the track rack while bile he was wu absent but bat a few seconds and without any an shock of 0 any aar kind kIs having been be t felt elt But Hu the he men mea te In Silt Salt Lake denied dea ed mot most emphatically kall that tt this i l t ling of r fear r existed t to any allY great crest e extent cx teat t among the miners rs |
