| Show r DARKNESS AND LONELINESS fOULD DRIVE LOPEZ INSANE S SAYS MINING ENGINEER NO TO CO N N AND YAMPA MINE ii James Wa Wade le Wi Who 9 Has Inspected In In- 5 W Workings Many Tim Times Contradicts Statement State State- Statement ment of Corr II An An- V t Miner t LATE BULLETIN BINGHAM Dec 4 At At t 3 o'clock this afternoon Tom Hosking foreman of the Apex mine mine positively d declared that there thero is no tunnel connecting the tho Ap Apex x properties and tho the Y Tampa Tampa- upa prop prop- This afternoon the burning of ot damp powder at the foot level lovel Was was started It is 13 5 reported that none of ot the bl bulkheads bulk bulk- k hea heads will wUl be opened until tomorrow No men inca will be allowed to enter thomine the tho mine until a a. conference is held between between between be be- tween Sheriff Smith and officials of the Apex properties When tho the men meu are arc allowed to enter the first party will go in through the main Apex tunnel tunnel tun tun- nd nel on the tho foot toot level The deadly fumes of ot coal tar Jar and eu sul suI sulphur p ur were still pouring into the tho Apex properties s. s at 1 0 o'clock lock tl this is' is afternoon Sh Sheriff riff Andrew Androw Smith Jr r. r said that tho the tho bulkheads would not be torn be-torn torn out b before foro tomorrow It is is pos possible ble f That Bt the fires firc will bo ho extinguished J lato to this afternoon and after the tho I bulkheads are torn awn away men with ropes about their waists will wilt iJ iJen enter Center en e tho the mine nin and search earch for tor the b body c of Lopez Have the absolute darkness and silence si- si lance lenco in the workings of or th the Utah Apex mine In U Upper g r i result resulted lt e ed in Rafael i l top Z slayer of a a. chief of fp f p police two deputy sheriffs and nd three thre others losing his mind Mining experts who have made conditions conditions con con- which prevail in mines a study declare that to remain such a length of ot time tim in a a- amine mine alone would cause an average man to lose los his mental powers It is is' probable they say that Lopez knowing his fate tata is sealed and ut that at he be must die dio and having been alone in Ii the tho I Inky darkness of ot a a. with the bodies bed bod I bOd-I ies lee of at two men whom he be had murdered for several hours Saturday and Sunday has driven him insane and 1 if he Is Inthe in inthe inthe the mine he is running from one tunnel to another nothing more nor less leu than thana a raving maniac I No hunter h has s kept on the trail of an animal as doggedly as have havo the I many posses which trailed the slayer Lopez from the night or r his first mur murp der in Bingham un until il he ho was traced back to that place many s da-s later Lopez his tracks showed always remained re reo on the tho ridge of tho the mountains where he ho could see aee the thc posse in every evory d direction He knew every minute th that t men armed t to the teeth were continually ally on his hie trail and it is is thought that this together with the murders of Yaldo Valdez Val Val- dez do Grant and aud Dep Deputies tes Je Jensen sen and Witbeck constantly ou on his mind mud has re resulted in him becoming insane I May Be Bo Ravi Raving Maniac f No o animal tracked ed to its ts lair Las has boen tortured as ha has Lopez He lie knew that the mine was surrounded by determined de do- men Friday Frida ari and he was as in places where whore he could hear the footsteps of the posse as they thc attempted to lo Ia- fa cate cute his hi hiding ing place in in tho many man miles miJe of diggings in the Apex properties s He lie realized that tho the men ha had entered tho the I mine to got him hIm and all of this to to- gether with the fumes turnes of den deadly l. l gases and volumes of smoke seeping into evel every nook an and corner corner of the tunnels ls and slopes 5 has Jias worl worked 11 upon his mind I until now Lop Lopez ez if he still lives is raving raYing alone in the thc absolutely inky ink darkness of the mine mine There is n no darkness like that found in a mine said James W. W Wade consulting engineer to a representative c of TI TIrE E TELEGRAM GRA I this morning Mr Wade has ha inspected the Apex properties properties-at at Bingham mun many times and is thoroughly acquainted with every mile of the workings H A Anti And d toge together her with ith that darkness 8 I H A Anti And d toge together her with ith that darkness 8 there is mans man's worst enemy intense silence Mr Mr Ir Wade continued continue A man alone aOne in a a mine surrounded bv by V i pitch darkness s an and silence loc JOS all s sense of DC direction If lie he bas as anything on his bis' mind that troubles troubles' lii him he lie sut suf fers nn an awful torture He cannot talk to himself If he be docs does ho thinks ic is Josin losing his bis mind All that he ho can do is to guide himself against the thc walls walla from one tunnel to another A man like you jOu or orr I 1 could not lt any groat cat length c ct time timo tn In sanity would follow lonow this man Lopez has ban shown that ho he is as cunning n as can be he and ho might have succeeded in holding his hits nervous vs tem lorn together and hal ha battled a against th tho darkness cBs an and It is r reported ll that he be held U up a miner and arid secured many candles If Tf he has baa light he could j o a I I I i ward off to a certain extent the ap Preach of insanity aUlt Says There Is No Tunnel I J kno know almost eer every foot of th the workings s of the Apex properties bavin having inspected the lube nunu ll ninny many times time I 1 am positive that thore there is no o tunnel connecting con con- netting the Apex and the Yampa prop erHos It is report reported d that Lopez had L escaped from the Apex mine mino by crawl rawl through an abandoned tunnel C connecting connecting con con- n with the Yampa mine There is a place where a t tunnel o of the Apex mine and one olle from ironi r m tho the Yampa mine cOllie come within fifteen foot of each oth other r. r A chart chuH of tho the workings of both Loth mines shows VH this thit The tunnels arc ro separated In JS' fifteen feet of or solid rock an and it would oula be impossible sible for Lopez Jope 40 k tunnel through that space I am positive I tic thc that there is no no connection con ned ion between tb the two mines There are arc many places in in the thc A Apex D X There are arc many places in in the thc A Apex D X properties ie where Lopez could take tale refuge ret ref uge and aurl C escape the tho smoke rooke and nud fumes which aro reaching out ont to t take lii hi bis life lifa away awn I l believe c that ho he h could flu flud a place i in u the tho st pe where bo lio committed com corn the two hyo JJ murders Saturday There Thore is 18 only one ODe way Lopez could have e escaped from froni the mine name in m my opinion The main tUn tunnel not of ot the A Apex x mines is about a mile mite Ion long Then Thena a shaft of or several M hundred feet goes directly up to where the Andy nd incline jl is Jt It is is po possible g that lii came down n the Andy incline climbed down tilt tue lad JaIl der to the thc main Ape tunnel and thc then ther talked out of or the thc m mine mine no with the miners Continued on page paga 2 2 DARKNESS AND LONELINESS Continued from page O 1 i. when they w wont went nt off shift hift be before foro tho the tunnels wore ere sealed up POR FORMER GUARD TELLS OF OP TO ESCAPE According to Jack Phillips a brakeman on the BIngham Bingham- 8 Garfield railroad and who is an old time lime miner and said to be bewell well acquainted with the workings of the Utah Apex properties at Bingham Lopez the murderer could have escaped from the workings by going through an abandoned abandoned abandoned aban aban- tunnel which is claimed by Philips Phillips Phillips Phil Phil- lips to connect the Apex at tho the 30 foot 30 foot 1 level evel with the Tampa properties Many Mexican miners are employed Inthe inthe In Inthe the Tampa Yampa mine and Phillips said that I Lopez could have crawled through the I abandoned tunnel and Joined the Mexican miners when they left the workings to I return to their theirS homes I Phillips says he is positive that there theres I Is s such a connection He claims to be bewell bewell bewen well wen acquainted with the workings of I both properties Phillips had been employed employed employed em em- as a a. special deputy sheriff by Sheriff Andrew Smith Jr and when ho he was dismissed yesterday by reason of or orthe 1 the sheriff cut cutting J nJ down his force torce he he volunteered this Information There are re man many who accept Phillips Phillips' claims and have lave expressed the tho opinion that the Mex- Mex i lean icon can outlaw might have escaped from tho the I mine However Sheriff Sherif Smith says that the Apex officials assert that there Is no such tunnel connecting wIth the Yampa workings Sheriff Smith is positive that Lopez if Is I still in th the tho mine and that his body will willbe willbo willbo bo be found when the bulkheads are torn I away and men allowed to enter to search for tor the outlaws outlaw's body Dr Inglesby and Dr share Sheriff Smiths Smith's- views They claim that Lopez is dead In the mine and that his body will be found near the bulkhead which la Is located at almost the same place whore where Lopez Lope killed Tom and J. J Douglas Hulsey last ast Saturday afternoon The 1 arrangements for were completed yesterday at Bingham A Brother of ot the late BIngham man gian O. O W. W his homo In California Call Call- Halsey arrived from J fornia yesterday and at once started arrangements arrangements' for tor the funeral ba will willbe be burled buried in the inthe the cemetery It its ils planned to move the body to Runn Runnel ll Tex at a later date data The fIhe He Rev P. P A A. of ot Salt Lake City will have ave charge chargo of ot the Ic tees ces s. s Tb The Tho funeral will wm be under the di direction dl- dl of ot Eagles lodge No 69 of ot Bing- Bing ham barn |
