Show THE CAS LEGATE DI DISASTER A EH B By L. L A A. A HoH Holl f The explosion sion In the tho coal oal mine aline at Castlegate on op p the mo morning n g of March 1 S 8 wherein n probably 76 nien men were killed W v.-is v. s a great and and distressing disaster A gigantic calamity to the tho outsider cut cut- sider who has no chance to act acl or oraid oraid oraid aid doesn't stimulate stimulate- the mind but depresses it The helplessness the futility ty the horror of it the intellect It is a sort of a mental mental men men- tal l prison where a man an Is is' denied the privilege ge and the liberty to think and demonstrate ate that hat thought into physical action There are two kinds of ot disasters the the vo voidable dable like that of the Johnstown flood the Titanic ship disaster and mine disasters and the unavoidable like the volcano or the I i earthquake and while the latt latter r by byno no means whatever can be ed the former might have been prevented prevented prevented pre pre- vented or at least we think it might have been bean prevented because it i ia isa is 15 a result of human ignorance inexperience inexperience inex inex- shortsightedness indifference indifference ference terence or thoughtlessness If It the calamity be the result of incompetency incompetency incompetency tency then it Is a fault and a fault is worse than a crime Youcan You Youcan Youcan can protect from a criminal but you ou cannot protect yourself from a man who is so faulty mental mental- mentally ly that he will ignorantly kill himself himself him him- self elf and all of ot hf his bIs nei neighbors hb rs Therefore in a fault is worse than a crime J I Legislatures tr try to fix these matters matters mat mat- But the unexpected happens and the legislature was as not able to see the man with a fault nor to t tell ll what his particular fault would beNot be Not even a prophet could do that There must be a way devised to lb better better bet bet- t.- t. ter protect the man man who ho goes i into lo lothe the mine There is a way vay th there re must be r This is a great calamity to Utah Utah and the country It is our our i community O 1 and our our neighbors neighbors neighbors- We Ve will wIlt willed id where we can and as a con community mu ty our hearts will go out In great sympathy sym sym- ll- ll pathy paUlY for the neighbors friends and the widows and orphans Ve We can help sympathize and comfort comro t. t That is the human limit and that we e |