Show V T 14 M hese get FIN L 57 W 41 4 gri 1 E T 01 VJ X J r A castle gate mine ke dependents need Finan financial cid As assistance sWance subscriptions should be sent to any county chairman or to any bank in the state it is imperative to act now fund needed statewide state wide machinery has been set act in motion for ral singa singh fund of for relief of the stricken dependent miners who lost their lives in the recent castlegate Cast legate mine disaster A ways and means committee has been organized under th chairmanship of E 0 howard of salt lake city president of walker brothers bankers and with D C green general manager 0 of the utah power light company as vice chairman and john C cutler president of the deseret DT national a ti nit bank treasurer and J H rayburn general secretary of the salt lake city chamber of commerce secretary county chairmen have been named as follows J P F tolton deaver beaver J G wheatley Box boxelder elder 11 E hatch cache carl R marcusen carbon M L larson daggett robert miller davis davia robert potter duchesne henry thompson emery H C tebbs garfield garfied H W balsley grand wilford day iron J W bond juab east walter fitch filch sr juab we at william kane W A robertson millard J A anderson morgin morgan CI civikles virles merrill plute charles W walton valton rich A B ham mond san juan 11 P F dicke salt lake lace L R anderson San sanpete pete R M D young sevier M C taylor summit peter clegg tooele thoele thomas W odonnell uintah J will knight utah J W clyde wasatch ed H snow washington guy evans wayne and A P bigelow weber mr howard general chairman has issued the following appeal to the people of utah the purpose rf this fund und will be to take care of cases r requiring e special attention under the compensation act the utah F fuel corn company will pay 16 per week for weeks to each mans d dependents dents rny irrespective rr of the number of dependents in each faill family y V this h ein compensation pensa tion act is sufficient coverage for protection in an ordinary catastrophe but not where the entire community is affected such as in the castlegate Cast legate disaster the law does not take care of sp specific instance ini where there are several members of a family and in investigation v esti shows that at least 50 per cent of the bereaved families have more thin than five depend eato and in many cases there are as many as eleven dependents these children face the future without vit hout adequate resources for their protection and sustenance As governor mabey has declared in his proclamation it is alpar apparent nt that there is a crying need for help among these women and chi children deen living victims of the terrible disaster an appeal to the people of utah for relief Is is absolutely necessary to alleviate the suffering is the only human thing to do we respectfully urge that the citizens support this movement and send subscriptions immediately to the chairmen of the various county organizations or to say any bank in the state the ways wa and means committee is charged with the responsibility of r raising a 1 ays rig the funds and a trust committee which has been appointed by the governor will direct the disbursement at this time we are arc not making any special appeal to other chates but subscriptions from aiom such states will be accepted As the people of utah are well aware this disastrous explosion resulted in the untimely death of miners leaving widows and minor children fatherless in addition to a wire to each county chairman notifying him of his appointment a letter was sent out under the signature of fuves governor mabey and mr howard under date of march as follows following a careful investigation of the situation at the castle gate catastrophe I 1 issued a proclamation a copy of which is attached hereto this thi is ayra survey e y was made by a committee composed of mr imer P patt a tt chairman mr F E hansen mr darrel T lane mrs C H stevenson and mr carl marcusen Mar casen the report was in detail and I 1 am having run off for you copies of the report so that you can be fully tid advised and in turn let the people in your county know the exact status of the situation As you already know the resolution of the committees ih investigation vesti po points tit to the he need of a fund to take care are of the dependents who will require attention in addition to the compensation allowed under the law namely to a mans depend dependents eirts payable 1600 per week newspapers Newe papers throughout the state and country at large have carried the details of cf this sad accident and it appears to be the general con census cenus of opinion that steps should be taken to raise the fund of we respectfully urge that you use every means possible t to 0 raise the quota for your country county the red cross chapter church societies fraternal and com commercial commercio merci organizations should be called upon by you to supply the necessary machinery to raise the fund without delay please appoint vice chairmen cha amen to take charge of the various cities towns and sections of your county you have many good men and women available for t this is work posters that will serve to call the attention of your people to this campaign are being mailed to you under separate cover will you please see sec that they are distributed and prominently displayed the boy scouts organizations we ve believe can be depended upon to make the distribution As you have boen previously advised mr john C cutler president of the deseret national bank is treasurer all banks are authorized to receive subscriptions to the fund it is needless we feel sure to urge that necessity demands prompt response in this emergency and we hope that the good people of your county will respond generously frank B coole president of the columbia trust company of salt lake city and president of the utah state bankers association sent the following letter to all members of the bankers association several weeks ago the people ea I 1 le of the state were stunned with the realization of what tl the he castlegate Cast legate mine catastrophe meant not only to the coal industry but particularly to the dependents of those men who so BO valiantly give gave their live in performance of their duty Go governor charles R mabey has within the p past few days bahat issued a proclamation calling upon the people of U utah to subscribe to a trust fund of for the dependents of the men who were lost this tais is not an amount to ask of the people of the state the utah fuel company which owns and operates no 2 mine at castlegate Cast legate the scene of this catastrophe is meeting its obligations without hesitancy but as you will realize the amount of compensation provided under the law is not commensurate in all cases caich to take care a of the dependent families of the men who were killed the amount of is paid on a basis of 16 per week A state committee has been organized by governor mabey A campaign to rae ra e the fund is now under way the governor Go vernoi and the committee request all the banks of the state to receive subscriptions for this fund in so doing will you keep deepan an account of the names addresses and amounts of ah aft who subscribe to this fund the te temporary m treasurer is john C cutler of the deseret national bank of ali of this city will you please advise mr cutler the amount on hand for this fund as of april members of the ways and means committee are E 0 howard D C green edward E jenkins A G 0 mackenzie john C howard mrs frank P stewart wart J H rayburn bishop joseph S glass A W ivins ross beason J D stack S 0 dye G L decker becker J T farrer C P cardon mr airs jeanette A hyde M mrs ri W mont ferry L P F rains moroni heiner herbert auerbach Aue roach and walter pitch fitch sr the trust committee which will disburse the funds will consist of the three members of the state industrial commission are a representative of the utah fuel company a member of the board of county commissioners of carbon county a representative of the carbon county chapter of the american red cross and three representatives to be chosen by the governor golem or from the state at large |