Show INVESTIGATE Wo think the State authorities especially espe-cially the Governor andy it possible the President of the Senate and Speaker Speak-er of the House with thVAttorney General should so soon as tho Immediate Imme-diate work at Scofleld l Is finished undertake un-dertake the Investigation of the great I disaster Ono of two things Is evident evi-dent on the face of things Either I there was something wrong In the conditions con-ditions something that human foresight fore-sight ought to have avoided or ola It Is a clear case that every man who goes to work In a Utah coal mine absolutely abso-lutely takes his life In his han sfhc mines at j ventilate the proper way to ventlate least the most perfect way yet devised Is not by blowing air Into a mine but by suction the attachment of blowers I I on the outside that will draw from the the I Us foul and permit mine Is gaucs gne vacuum to be filled without a current I when a air because of atmospheric blast of pure air is driven into coal I dust It of Itself Is sometimes enough If this mine to cause an explosion minI had auction blowers on the outside which were at work and there were connections which permitted the drawIng I draw-Ing of the foul gases from all parts of the mine to the outside and If I the machinery ma-chinery was In working order and working that would demonstrate that the mine was too dangerous a place for men to work In If on the other hand 1 those gases had been permitted to accumulate ac-cumulate for days then there was I either gross carelessness or gross In competency in the handling of the i property and those facts ought to bo I brought put whatever they be because coal mining In this state Is simply in Us Infancy There arc coal measures almost all the way from Wyoming loSt lo-St George and the amount of coal that will be taken from those mines ten fifteen or twenty years honce will be as great probably as the amount now being taken from the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania mines And this accident ought I to be onouzh to determine not only I I corporations but the Slate authorities to see that such regulations are made as will draw every protection possible around the miners In tho depths There ought to be a most rigid examination to see If the mining inspector has been performing his duty and Insisting that modern precautions should all the lime be taken that the appliances which science and experience dictate were all in working order on that property I is a fearful thing While In the pursuit pur-suit of honest tol there were In a moment mo-ment so many men killed as would cause a shudder If the same record of death came from a battlefield and If this catastrophe results in drawing such protection around miners hereafter here-after as will more effectually protect them then It will not have been altogether alto-gether In vain I Is a frightful calamity calam-ity 3n the presence of it men are apt to be Impatient and faultfinding There should be nothing of that but there should be a calm and thorough investigation and the truth should be known BO that if any added precautions precau-tions can be taken they will be Insisted UpOI |