Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-09-22 | Page 1 | Jackson Closes up its Business during Funeral

JACKSON -CLOSES UP ITS BDSIL'ESS OlIJGJL'ERfl Gold Mine Victims' Final Resting Place Will Be in Rock Sepulchres Blasted in Heart of Mother Lode SEARCHERS RENEW QUEST FOR FZSSZ.L Mining Experts Puzzled as to Where Man Could I lave Gone After Writing Mes. age in Smoke About Gas JACKSON, Csl, Sept. 22 (By A. P.) The forty-sU bodies reoevered from the Argonaut mine fire here ware given final burial today, while searoh preparations eontinued foe the forty, seventh vietlm, William Fessel. Gov. ernment reeoue erews announced that thsy had abandoned the search foe Feeeel, but that it would be continued tomorrow by special reeoue erews of ths Aroenaut Mining eempany. JACKrON. Cel.. Kept, it (By A. P.) Jackson closed Its business houses and Its schools today to pay final tribute to forty-slx Argonaut victims whoee bodies will be bun..! ' In rock sepulchres, hewn and Masted In the heact fo the mother lode gold country. All the victims will reach their final resting places all but one, William KeaaeL the forty-seventh en-tmobed en-tmobed miner, rteaxchlng crews renewed re-newed today their effort to find Peaoerg body. But they, too, planned to atop their search while Jacks, .n burled Its dead. Where esarl went after writing his sooty mesn.ise vn the walls of the men'e tomb Is a mystery that puailea mining expn. Ths mnssAxe said "S:00. ft.ie st'i bad, Keaeol." Official i t tliil he sous lit other parts of the Arnonnut mine to escape the encroir hina- an. Karly today twenty-five fing-drai.rd. rasketa reached the Catholio ceme- terv. elev.n .apa . ,a . a . Orthodox Catholio cemetery and nine to tho Protectant cemetery. The sixty grave dlxsers hardly had finished fin-ished their task before ths bodies arrived. Search for Lost Cody May Solve Mystery JACK BON, Cel.. Sept. It By IT. P -Jackson's great tragedy, tha death of forty-seven Vulners In the Arronaut mine, today was resolving Itself Into aa great a mystery. Search, preeaed until lata Into ths night, had failed to reveal any trace of the body of William Kesael, the ' forty-seventh Imprisoned miner. Investigations thus far have failed to answer the question of who ownc-i the forty-eighth suit of clothes which was left In the "change room" the night the Ire and cavetn Imprisoned the men. Ths mystery of the missing body was made deeper by the fact that n explanation had been offered as to how It came that officials announced, when the bodies were first found, that forty-seven hsd been counted. Wheq ths bodies were brought out there were but forty-six. all Identified, and -eel waa missing. Miners believe Pessel died trying to reach ventilators In ons last deanerar effort to save himself snd his com-j com-j rades. But such a theory woeld not 'explain the count of forty-seven bodies 'on Monday night. As for ths forty-eighth suit ot clothes, thus far It has been impos-slbel impos-slbel to identify It aa th. property of any known employ, of th. mine. It haa hung In the "change room" sines the night of the disaster, unclaimed. Today, some advanced a sinister thsory that the man who owned the forty-eighth ault of clothes might shed light on the origin of the fire, if he could be found. Thus far, ths ques. tlon of how the fire started had remained re-mained unanswered. .