Salt Lake Telegram | 1913-10-27 | Page 1 | Unable to Identify Bodies Now

UNABLE TO IDENTIFY BODIES NOW NOVI One Hundred Yet Remain in Stag Canyon Mine WorKings MADE UNRECOGNIZABLE BY HAND OF DECAY Seven Brought Out Today Not One of Whom W Wasp Was s p Identified D DAWSON N. N M. M Oct 27 Men Men h t nC aha a 1 spent ent th thou their I r ener energies s today in an attempt to remove I the tho bodies of tho the dead in mine No 2 of oC the Stag Canyon P l' el company from beneath the tile mass of wreckage under which many of or of the bodies lie daily allY every overy accessible body had been I removed this morning bringing tho the I total number of oC recovered bodies up to Of ot tho de dead w which have been brought brouch from the mine since midnight midnight midnight mid mid- night not ono one was identified The task pf pC identification is mo mo growing more difficult and it is believed cd now not that of ot the bodies boHe in the mine today few fow will ever be identified By noon today of the victims had been buried Tho The major portion of tho the bodies now being recovered are in such condition that the they cannot be shipp shipped d nor arc the they being laid out in the mor morgue ue for foT public funeral service as was the tho ease case with the first Health officers are arc using vigilance to see that the sanitation of the town ii Is not impaired Rescue men who bring tho the bodies from the deep recesses of t the mine raino arc subjected to disinfectants after each ach trip Taken Directly to Cemetery Bodies Bra ro taken quietly to the cemetery teI tery cry directly from the temporary morgue moque which has been brien established at nt th th mine mint and if It Identification Is 8 possible by mine officials members of or the dead miners' miners families are not p permitted to see ee the bed bodies ice It Il if it expected that nil all bodies not hot burled beneath the wreckage e or of the mine will have o b Pen cn brought to the lurta surface o today as ns nothing it I If believed will delay tho the work Woric D Danger n r from rom fire passed last night when alt air currents were directed into ever e every room of or tl the workings H and no emol ders lers were discovered helmets still must be bel l used d by the advance rescue crews hut but only as a matter of or e extreme precaution since Inca the last Jut known rooms containing black damp were clarified last Jut night Mining work ork Ii In mine No 20 4 was resumed title this morning and It Il will be a matter of or days until renditions conditions In III the mining camp a D normal aspect Experts Will Government GO mine experts will r remain maln In III Dawson DawHon for or two or three weeks 61 8 in an to t determine positively eh the cause and hind nature or of tile the disaster The rhe work of ot exhumation of or bod bodies lew which V wore TC burled buried by the tile in the mine will vill be con can t bi by miners r until the last hut body bod is I