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Show i m in : 81 ci-i i IN EUREKA f.f apping on Pipes Indicates Indi-cates That All Were ; Slot Killed, but Rescue : arties Say Men Will Smother Before Aid Can Be Given Them; he Centennial-Eureka Workings Scene of the 'Accident. VVO BODIES ARE 1 QUICKLY FOUND V.j' fantic Wives and Relatives Rela-tives Gather About Mine Entrance; Thir-TferV Thir-TferV IVfor. With the r farty Saves His Life Vby Obej: "Hunch" Vhen Lights in Stope j-fio Out. it mi lo The Tribune.'' itil'HEKA, Sept. 17. A cave-in in the stoma slope of the Centennial-Eu-l mine shortly after 3 o'clock this pnoon hopelessly buried. twelve uiin-j uiin-j Al 8 o'clock tonight the body of - j" 'Kmpe was found near the edge !' MoP. covered but lightly with Jf- At midnight the body of Jack ;:;,!0ii was recovered from a spot near f" Koipe was .found. Hewson was : N under a mass of ore and tim-' tim-' l,oth 'eo had probably been iu-killed iu-killed by the concussion that r'M''l the cavc-iu. Jii addition Hew iA" was broken. w mciii,iS parties say that it is (v useless to hope to rescue any i-iUeP ,live and f'rst it was JWel Hie cave- u. However shortly jfkj. nudnight faint tapp wS , J1" ""ncono was alive. jj"1 Appears Certain. FLniT'T '). added to the gen--I 'Mr hs s,tation, because of ihif .r of rescuo and 't is .! ' m h'" ''?v smothered before ! kin ' rave-in. 1 thM., m7,had ""ere the stope tfll'it 'i' ".'"""" his escape to the N 1 s superstitious and savs to i , VuT'h" the lights 1 Vw ,i J c .JrPPCu his wheel-Un, wheel-Un, i ", IUt0 ,ho maiu tunnel. .rc:Wh K" Cauht in th f AM ALLEN, 32 years. . i'?& BARRICK, single, ffd B0TTEE, 28 years, 'ACK hewson, married. i ;S D' BRIS0N' 27 yea. '"'Sb43 years, married. JJLLA, 35 jjtfi? ZIERKOLD, 42 -years, -H1' ti exact L"ed8e an! lh.l cave-'n " not ": !V notJ2ard a guess. The U i '"a on PagTieve llH CAUGHT Iff CAVE-IN IN ! EUREKA II ' L Hopelessly Buried Un- der Tons of Earth and Timbering in Centennial- Eureka Workings. t jIfrom Page Que.) "1 TrToPe which W1S opcned up J ut nvo years ago. is said to have been . uvjiv timbered. I'j f mrs Work Hard. .... rescuing party, under the suporvi- I uiJrew P. Mayberry, superln-'denf superln-'denf John Enlund, foreman, and Shift fe jicLain. went into the mine imme-i'lv imme-i'lv a"er tllc cave"in- They I"1'!' ! Sld the op.mon that the accident, ','rtnas between the 1200 and 1600-foot n I ''tis had caused the death of all of the f ld'rs K is believed that thoae who .' not killed by the concussion or were not buried alive will have JJotliered before the barrier to the stope AKMan 1 removed. SBrCreat difficulty is being encountered In 'le a-ork of rescue. The cave-in itself ""'i seemingly continuing, dirt falling Into k tunnels almost aa fast as the res-J(r! res-J(r! c3n lake it away. This has necessitated neces-sitated the erection of timbers to pro- ' fc m the rescuers. 3Tfce body of Knipe was found near the I fi'ilse of the stope only partly covered k "if dirt. It is thought he was instantly 'j:-!: ne( by tlie concussion, as the dirt iUr'i(el( was not sufficient to have smoth-10 smoth-10 1 lid Mm. zHewson's Neck Broken. . The body of Hewson, who is thought to jve been one of four men working on ! p I it same floor of the stope with Knipe, i trie found later near the latter. Both y had evidently made an effort to get Wt of the stope when the light, went out, The -it became confused and were killed by Je concussion. Hewson was buried be- lath a mass of timbers and dirt. "CGVVTYhen the bodies of Knipe and Hewson 'j- re examined it was found that Hew- ' in s neck was broken and that both men riT pi been terribly bruised. -UIVjThe seven married men who were (tight in the cave-in are all survived by " ( leir wives and by a total of twenty-Z-Ljht children, most of them of tender jarii. The wives, accompanied by the trents and other relatives of the men, .e well aa by the children, were grouped "lout the entrance to the mine all after-ion after-ion and far into the night, hoping Alilalnst hope that the rescuers would bring lljlp some word indicating that there was L&jy chance to save their loved ones. , tescuers Work Hard. In V;.' V,::' The rescuing parties, made up of volun-wrp, volun-wrp, were composed of from twelve to YESj-fteen men each. They worked in one-Xhoi! one-Xhoi! ur shifts. The superintendent, shift i E'v6 a,1(i foreman, however, remained in .fce mine continuously directing the Id, t:!"s- ''wing lo the continual tendency of 1. f iler sections of the mine leading to the ciEi-j;Pe to cave in, the work of rescue is us" ! :: to' ecilng but slowly. Heavy timbers are olO; f!i elected as the party progresses. tTiemeiKl,,iis amounts of ore and dirt. 4l'n, iticKI with the timbers, are be- til io fill Hie Oklahoma stope. That to the point where the men are a a j !Il"ni,-.eJ will be difficult was admitted tl'c ofllrials. who Indicated that it -rjl-iil requite several days to get all of fCTOi '-lies cut. jg y ' "" of llie entombed miners Bottrell JSUj wwo-l into the Centennial riSr"!' ' Hie day shift yesterday for the xwrairftl liiti.... But, ,cn i,ave l,een wOfk- trcJv K ''ue camp al other mines. and V tr'"Vil r.i . who is ?. brother of John j-rf". 'no city marshal of Eureka, hr. , co-e l" lurried two years. His wife was f.' .Nora AlcKato of Eureka. VILL! 5" ""'' boy 3 months of age. Mrs. 1 ' fi '''1'rryl"s l baby, was among the lOTCF'V " "ul thc mine entrance all after-lf'-C"'"";1 cl'e"lng. Allen has been work-k work-k rf. '," "tmp for the past eight years. ji'lrH. who Is a native of England, a wltc. two children and a mother 7.'llli in Ivirckn. ffcJki """" "nd Johri KnlP are brotiiers iH'l T'". Ku"'k f" British Col.lm-Ufi Col.lm-Ufi about five years ago. The brothers XV'., worked In the same mine to-fr"' to-fr"' Sr. a'ways remained close to each Brfr? dunng their work. 5ii!TJ!,Camc t0 Eureka from St. George sfi1 Rr ' J'oa,rs aS- He married s ,ivli . n,,of, ",ls c"-y- The couple 1 n hu a fw months old. . s," G0"ge and mother are now living I "fim,SiVa .the .former President of iH nn ,1 "ers umon and has been In FTOMor, number of yeajs, coming orig-lnally from Delta, where he has three brothers Isaac. Jack and Ephraim Los-see. Los-see. He has a sister living- at Payson and his father's home is at Lake Shore. Sunquist is a native of Finland and is one of the old timers of the camp. His wife and five children live in Eureka, Rosa is a native of Italy and his wife and two daughters live in Ozeyna at the present time. He has two brothers, John and Felix, living here. Both were among tho?e who volunteered for the rescue part7es. Owned by U. S. Company. Timperella, who was generally know about the camp by the name of Powers, has a wife and three children in Eureka. Eu-reka. Zierrold is a native of Germany, but ca me to Eureka some ti rae ago from American Fork. His wife and seven children live here. The Centennial-Eureka mine is the property of the United States Smelting, Refining & Mining company, which has operated it for a number of years. The mine, which adjoins the Grand Central property, has always been one of the biggest producers in the state and the largest in the Tintlc district. During the past ten years the mine has furnished from one-fourth to one-half of the ore shipped from the district. An average of fifty cars a week has been shipped for years. The company has always employed about 200 miners and at times this has been increased to as high as 400. Lately LI io number has been reduced to about 00, most of whom were at work in other sections of the property at the time of the cave-in. Today's accident is the most serious seri-ous that has ever occurred in the camp and tonight residents are discussing it in awed tones. The work of rescue will be carried on to the exclusion of work in the mine for the next few days. As soon as the news of the accident bad spread about the camp hundreds of miners and their families gathered at the entrance. There were jovful meetings as miners came out, sadder faces as loved ones did not appear, and hysteria on the part of women and children when it became known just where the cave-in had occurred and who the imprisoned men were. Rescue parties wore organized at once from volunteers. In several instances wives of the entombed men insisted on going into the mine to aid in the work. Little Hope of Rescue. Gradually all became convinced that there was no hope of rescue and the wives of the entombed married men were taken to their homes in the care of friends and relatives. When the tapping was heard the news seemed to spread like wildfire, and it was but a short time before there was a renewal of the original excitement, ex-citement, with a much more grewsome ending at the renewed statements of the rescue parties that it would probably prob-ably be impossible to save anyone who might be alive. |