| Show i Last Remaining Victims I Will Not Be Found Until Until Un Un- Uni i iI I til tn Spring Is Belief Belief- ENTOMBED ONES I THOUGHT FROZEN Hundreds of Miners Miner Are e Called Out for Relief Diggers Jiggers Carry On i I BINGHAM Feb 18 Two 18 Two additional ad ad- bodea were taken from the ruins ruins shortly before 3 p. p m. m Thurs day This brings the known dead in in the Bingham disaster to thirty thirty- eight The bodies recovered were identified as Walter Prater of Murray Murray Mur Mur- ray and Burdell Caywood i iBy By Walter King BINGHAM Feb 18 The The last of th the bodies wil not riot be uncovered uncovered- until spring This is the opinion ot of officials here aft after r 30 hours of and andT T O Tonly only a meager portion of ot the devastated devastated devas devas- area had been combed by the hundreds of miners who ar are en engaged engaged engaged en- en In tide the tedious heartbreaking task Four bodies were recovered Thursday raising the total number of known dead to 38 Of or orthe the 12 12 Injured persons persons who were taken from the snow prison Wednesday afternoon and evening I u all will survive according to physicians physicians physicians phy phy- at the Bingham general hos hos- pital The bodies taken from the wreckage wreckage wreckage wreck wreck- age Thursday w were re identified as those of James Sanderson of ot Gun Gun Gun- and Jim Murphy of Butte Butt Mont 1 t. t Every hope of taking anyone else from the snow filled gulch has been abandoned abandond by the rescue leaders It is pointed out that the entombed l would have frozen to death before 30 hours While the miners go on about their colossal task In their stoical manner r. r guards are patrolling the ridges surrounding this district The sentries are walking their posts to fire In the warning th the event of ot any snow movements 1 t Three volleys s 's will be fired If It the slightest move is accordIng accordIng according accord- accord Ing to Frank A A. Wardlaw superintendent t I of the Highland Boy Doy mine and In charge of relief reller work The officials say the great amount of ot snow on the mountains could easily precipitate another similar disaster ster as serious as Wednesdays Wednesday's catastrophe Another would endanger the tb hun hun- reaR It if miners tJ now dl digging out the corpses The sun that shone so brilliantly on the cold February day was held as a a. dangerous factor because Ui th f Continued on page 7 s ALL BELIEVED DEAD IN BINGHAM SLIDE 37 BODIES TAKEN Continued from itom page 1 heat would melt much of ot the snow on th the peaks Funeral arrangements for any of the victims whose bodies ar are In hi th the ODonnell O'Donnell mortuary have not been completed Dr mayor Of am said no plans had been made for a public fUneral The These e details will not be completed until possibly Saturday he said Hundreds of new miners were called into relief work Thursday morning They have covered the lower portion of the slide thoroughly thor thor- ou hl but hut the extreme me upp r edge has not been touched to an any ex ex- ex tent The snow in certain portions of the gulch is estimated at between 25 and 35 15 feet teet in depth depth- and th the leaders fear that only when the spring sun has melted all th the snow will the last of ot the unfortunate victims victims' victims victims' vic vie tims' tims bodies be given up The Thursday dig dig dig of the miners was practically without ut utan an art unusual feature It was a pa pathetic pa- pa th tlc picture as many different ar articlES articlE'S articles ar- ar tides were uncovered in the search A box of personal pictures with af affectionate affectionate at- at inscriptions clothes a razor and a thousand and one other things that grace a household were found round scattered red all through the devastated area The diggers unearthed a hous house which had been totally covered b by the slide Three sides of the dwellIng dwell dwell- ing stood intact white while the other wail wll lii 1 h bee eo destroyed hv by fire |
