Show iIIOST IN COAL JMINE 4 0 J it f s Superstitious Miners at Scofield Have Concluded Con-cluded Winter Quarters Workings Are Haunted Headless Man Alleged to Be Walking About PrpperiyAt Times t He Boards the Coal Cars and Rides to Mouth of f Tunnel When He DisappearsNumber of Miners Throw Up Their JobsReal Foundation of Strike Talk TRIBUNE SPECIAL Price Utah Jan 12In connection strike coal ml with the impending slrfte of ncra at Scofield and Winter Quarters which General Manager Sharp of the Pleasant Valley Coal company la I now on the ground trying to settle there Is a story told which is very likely at the bottom of the whole trouble and which It is hard to think men would believe in this the twentieth century On the first day of May last there was an explosion in the Winter Quarters Quar-ters mine and 200 lives were alle time lost besides n number were crippled crip-pled and maimed for life Ever since by reason of the great shaking up in the mine from the blast numbers of men have been Injured by falling debris and rock and for weeks tnero was hardly 1 a day that some one was not brought clown the hill Injured to amore a-more or less extent HEADLESS MAN IN MINES I The superstitious miners who are foreigners hao come to the conclusion that the property Is haunted Inhabited by n ghost Several of them have heard strange and unusual noises and those favored with a keener vision than their fellow workmen have actually seen a headless man walking about the mine and according to their statements have accosted the ghost and addressed it or he sAt s-At other times the headless man would get aboard the coal cars to which mulEs and horses are worked and ride with the driver to the mouth of the tunnel when ho would mysteriously mysteri-ously vanish and again reappear in the mine Many supposedly intelligent men have claimed this andsome ten tyfive 01 forty have thrown up their Jobs in consequence MYSTERIOUS LIGHT SEEN These same people and others have seen mysterious lights In the graveyard grave-yard on the side of the hill where many of the victims of the explosion of May are buried and all efforts to ferret fer-ret out the causE have been fruitless though close investigation has been made by reputable citizens of the camp These lights are always followed fol-lowed by a death so it is alleged by others than the miners who might be disciples of the supernatural Tombstones where the light appeared have been blanketed but the light remains re-mains clear to tho vision of those who watch from town The ghost of the mine is known among the workmen as Sandy MoGovern A foreigner from the camp lately visited vis-ited a clairvoyant in Salt Lake City and this woman on reading his hand so it Is alleged told him where he was from recited the details of the accident acci-dent and Informed him the one of May was nothing In comparison to the one that was to occur at some future time REAL FOUNDATION STRIKE TALK This Is really the foundation of tho Scofleld strike which was to have been Inaugurate tomorrow and taken together to-gether with the quarantine regulations and the dissatisfaction over wages Is likely affairs to bring about a bad condition of |