| Show ALL HOPE OF FINDING MINERS ALIVE ALIV IS GIVEN UP BY COAL MINE M NE OFFICIALS BUT FEW BODIES REMAIN UNDER GROUND AT castlegate CAST LEGATE WORST EXPLOSION IN HISTORY OF STATE SNUFFED OUT LIVES OF ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE MEN cause of disaster Is yet unknown and may never be learned as there are no living survivors to tell of accident burying of dead Is grim sight as line of coffins are lakein to burial grounds Cast castlegate legate utah all suspense is virtually ended for it has now become a certainty that no man who was in in the coal mine when the explosion occurred here last saturday can now be found alive appearances in the mine the circumstances surrounding the discovery of the bodies all indicate a common conanon tragic fate for all the one hundred and seventy five men at the first left escape way from which all rescue work has been conducted the toil continues unremittingly and as feverishly as when the first call for help was given the difference now is that the work is so thoroughly organized as to be almost automatic the ile well conceived plan of operation goes forward without a hitch as shift succeeds to shift almost without words and wholly without confusion grim miners dirt and sweat stained toil at intervals up the steep incline of the blasted entrance to the escapera escape wa way y bearing on stretchers the canvas covered forms of the their r comrade victims perhaps fifty workers waiting for their turn to enter stand silently while the bodies are given first examination at the receiving tent and from there are transferred to the waiting motors which take them swiftly down the dusty narrow canyon to the rapidly filling morgue A few quiet words among the watchers as a lost friends name Is told an anecdote or two about his brother is in there too or one of the best we had and another stretcher comes as a new shift goes on duty with cap lights lit and tools in hand band down in the town the first attention is now turned to the planning of last sad rites for those who have gone those who have been left behind are finding comfort in the ministrations of the generously outpour ed help of the community and state |
