Show 1 TUOMAS DECLARES IT fALSE 11il 11 I il > > State Mine Inspector Has Made N o State merit as to Where Blame 1 for f d2 j i8ti t i Horror I Should Lie 1ir o < 1 J I I i 0 I I I He Gives The I Tribune a Signed Statement Pr S S nouncing the Sensational l Story Attributed to i Him as Untrue and FalseNot Prepared to Say Where Blame Should be Placed l TRIBUNE SPECIAL Scoficld Utah May i Tonight State Mine Inspector Thomas gave The Tribune this signed statement Scoflold Utah May 4 1300 The alleged al-leged statement in the Herald of today to-day under the heading of State Mine Inspector Blames Company is false as I am not prepared to make any statement as to where the blame should lay and will not until further Investigation Is made GOMER THOMAS Stale Mine Inspector for Utah Time sensational statement in time Salt Lake Herald this morning at trbutlng the blame of the explosion here upon the neglect of mine management manage-ment created a wave of Indignation In every quarter That it was uncalled for and Is not borne out by the facts Is understood by all from the humblest hum-blest car driver who escaped from the main entry of the illfated mine to the highest of the officials in charge and who have bean upon the ground since a few hours after the catastrophe DENY THE STORY State Mine Inspector Corner Thomas and his son who have been here since early Tuesday evening the latter assisting as-sisting his father In exploring the bowels bow-els of the great properties and as bistlng in the rescue of tho illfated men Indignantly deny tho story The facts in the case are that The Tribune staff had secured this piece of news exclusively At 9 oclock last night the other morning paper had failed to get the verdict of the coroners cor-oners jury and then guessed at the result These are the facts The public pub-lic can judge for itself WHAT OFFICIALS SAY At the offices of the company the fcoling was more pronounced l if anything any-thing than those of Mr Thomas and his son Supt Sharp and his assistant as-sistant H G Williams did not care to discuss the matter evidently con 5 G aJ sidering it of not enougrTlmporlance 4 J to bring out denial from them simply adding that conditions have not changed since they made a report to r The Tribune and that until tho dead 3 had been disposed of and the mine cleaned out they were not in a position to make any intelligent statement 1 WHERE EXPLOSION OCCURRED Theso two gentlemen have been in and out of tho mine all day and are getting things in shape as fast as they can to get to the point where the i explosion is now known or it is reasonably I F reas-onably certain Is believed to have occurred r i oc-curred b In the meantime hey are making a careful search for any of the dead that i l arc remaining and which arc likely to i I t4 be encountored at any point as progress i I r pro-gress Is now made furter into No 4 II fj proper The greater part of this work has tl been done today by W G Sharp while I I Mr Williams has devoted much of his MI limo to olllce work directing the shipment j ja ship-ment and disposition of bodies that go I I to a distance I I |