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Show TH PA Firs In VOL.11. SUNDAY HERALD nifq) llr MJuls 11 . (i 0 0 0 O & DIME OF f EXPLOSION By N. GUNNAR RASMUSON, Herald Staff Correspondent. CASTLEGATE, March 8. One of the worst mine dis asters that ever crushed the people of Utah's great coal fields came with a series of explosions this morning at 9 :30 when both portals of Mine No. 2. of the Utah Fuel company, blew out, filling the openings with earth, rock, and coal, penning in the jnine all miners who unconcernedly had gone to work just a few hours before. The first checking of names indicated the number of 181 miners entombed. Eyewitnesses said the blast of gas explosion came out of both portals, blowing the timbers far distant from the mine. Immediately after the roar of the explosion the dull thud of falling earth and rocks filled the air, and before a person could know what had happened the openings into the mine were closed. Before even the dust of the falling earth was settled hundreds of sorrow-face- d women and crying children rushed to the mine portals, each intent upon learning the fate of workers in the mine. , ' Women threw themselves upon the earth,, sobbing aloud 4n their grief. Z Childrxfl ran' crying about, screaming the names of fathers and brothers. Never before in the Castle-gat- e district has a greater horror fallen upon the people here. Never before was grief so well near universal overflowing into practically' very home of this district The special train carrying company officials, doctors, and reporters, arrived here at 3 o'clock, and all these joined hands with others in the desperate attempt to get through Jhe cave-Iat each portal. Sheriff John D. Boyd, of Utah county, and Preston G. Peterson, chairman, state, road commission, pitched into the hardest kind of labor in an effort to help get to the entombed miners. At 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon it was announced that 173 mine workers were entombed in the mine. No hope is held out for their lives. Despite every effort to rescue them, there hud been no opening made into the mine, and it was thought improbable that the bodies would be reached until - -- ns ic le id ic st, )c Sunday afternoon. Mine officials said they believed it probable that every man in the mine was dead. More than half of the men in the mine are married, and most of them are Americans. The single men were laid off March 1, n, : .39 ,75 .50 til PIONEERS I.N.S. REPORT UTAH PIONEER y Sea-mou- N.E.A. APPROVES PROVO'S RULES 4Jivi The community service committee of the Women's Municipal council prepared a set of pedestrian and bicycle rules, for the prevention of accidents and death among school children. The school nurse has Incorporated these into her health program and each child will be required to know these rules and to live up to them and the grade reaching 100 per cent will be given a prize. The Relief society was so kind as to discuss these in pvery home, so that the parents could help' to impress the Importance of observing these rules. The rules have been sent to the seventy-sevefederated clubs In our state to be used in the tion that 20,000 children of school various schools of me different age are killed each year in this communities. A copy was also sent to the Na country by accident. By proper edu- tional chairman of the General cation, he said, the number of acci- Federation of Women's clubs, Mrs. dental fatalties could be greatly W. ritimmer of Chicago. duced. I his should make us who live In She expressed her appreciation and no doubt fcill send tnem to the fed-- : Provo more diligent in impressing upon the children the importance crated clubs of the V'ntted States. At the National Educatfoiial as-- , of the observance of these rules. MRS. W. T. HASLER. sociation held in Chicago February I MRS. L. O. POTTER. 27, Albert W. Whitney, chairman of M US. ELMER JACOB. the education section of the Nation-- 1 MRS. C. H. NICKER SON. al Safety council, told the conven-n J j 1 . HONOLULU GOOD; PROVO IS BETTER Honolulu is all ngnt, according to Dr. H. G. Merrill and G. Merle Taylor, ."But Provo is better !" With the "Provo is better" slogan Dr. MerriU and Mr. Taylor returned to Provo. Dr. and Mrs. Merrill and Mr. and Mr-iTaylor arrived in Provo Friday aftqr an eight weeks visit, on the Tacific ocean and in the . Hawaiian Islands. "Yes," replied Dr. Merrill, "Honolulu climate is good, inmost as good as Provo's." . RESCUE t J i CALLED TO International News Service. CASTLEGATE, l'tuh, March 8. A terrific explosion occurred today in mine No. 2 of the L'tuh Fuel com- When the 1 OREIVS ARE OF DISASTER PASSES AWAY The following names of pioneers are added to the list recently printed in The Herald: Mrs. Lovlua A. Lott, 75 years of Zlna Nelson Jcpperson. died at her home in Pleasant age, Elizabeth 11. Wall, 145 8. First View Friday evening of troubles inEast. Mary Backus Ward, 185 W. third cident to old age. Mrs. Lott came to L'tah from Georgia 54 years ago, South. Swen O. Niclson, 445 N. Univer- and since that time bus resided at her home lu the river bottoms dissity avenue. Kmll Collins, Seventh West and trict. She bus been a faithful and Second North. untiring worker lu the Latter-daMary Froffle Robey, 021 N. First Saints church und Relief society West. since 1875. Hannah E. Miles Stewart, Fifth Mrs. Lott Is survived by the folWest and Fourth North. lowing sous and daughter: Wulier Sec607 N. Richard W. Brereton, J. Lott, Pocatellp, Idaho; Mrs. ond East. West l'ortuge, Daisy Thornton, Florence E. Readhead Brereton, I tub; Mrs. Alnora Bills, Tooele, C07 N. Second East L'tah ; Mrs. Nellie Jacques of Green William II. Brereton, 181 E. First River, l'tuh; Charles Lott of DuNorth. chesne; Fred Lott, Declo, Idaho; William Ashworth, 165 W. Fifth Wallace Lott, Mrs. Lovauio North. and Mrs. Ellu Buitui, all of Mary Sbeppard Ashworth, 165 W. Provo, and Ora Lott of Declo, Fifth North. Idaho. She is also survived by Sarah Ann F. Ashworth, 59 W. one sister, Mrs. E. A. Snyder, BerFifth North. keley, Culif.; 62 grandchildren and Jacob Nelson. ' 19 greatgrandchildren. Hannah L. Robins, 260 8. Seventh Funeral services will be held West. Monday nt 1:30 o'clock in the George Meldrum, 389 E. Seventh Pleasant View ward meeting house, North. under the direction of the Hatch Elizaleth Sessions Condon, 270 Funeral Home., The body may be W. Third South. viewed prior to the services at her ' John II. Carter, 318 E. Third home in Pleusunt View. South. J N. Ashtonr route 2, box 22,JC'ISSpB8 STUCK IN FIVE f r T (lip i inTi ir pvnvA unv m . F i i son r in James H. Clinger, Lakeview. , v or air. Aieon est, Mary Pauline Williamson Clinger, and Mrs. Edward west, 557' S. Lnkeview. Seventh West, was seriously in jured Friday afternoon when he SATURDAY'S SCHEDULE. fell on a pair of scissors with (J o'clock vs. which he was playing, Springville running Tarowan, to decide fifth and thein into the ball of bis eye. He eighth places. was rushed to the Alrd hospital, 7 o'clock Dixie vs. Ogden, to where Dr. L. W. Oaks, eye specialdecide fourth and seventh ist rendered immediate treatment. places. Reports from the Hospital are to 8 o'clock Bingham vs. Jorthe effect that althongn the ball of dan, to decide third and sixth the eye may be saved, it is possible places. that he will lose the vision. 0 o'clock L. T. S. U. vs. Pangulteh, to decide first and second places. WASHINGTON, March 8. Attorney General Harry M.Daugherty today refused to comply with a house resignation demanding that he name the two congressmen who have len accused of , accepting bribes in connection with the Veteran's Uureau scuiKTal. Demand for the names wag made unanimously by the house on the ground tlmt the veiled charges which are to be the subject of a grand Jury investigation here re- fleeted on every inenuier of the house, Shortly after the resolution wan passed, Representative John LanU-leRepublican of Kentucky and Frederick Zihlman, Republican of Maryland, issued statements that they were the two congressmen involved. Duugherty said he did not want to make the names public until he was sure that the congressmen named were actually guilty as charged. when coal production dropped. The main entrance, for a distance of at least 50 feet caved, in and the entrance narallel with it. too. caved in. The old manway, about a quarter of a mile from the main portal caved in, shutting off all chance of the men getting out. The explosion blowing out the main portal threw large umDers across the canyon. The air for a wide distance around the mine is satur Med With iras. Fnnr rmnrlrprl nnH fifrv resriifl workers are toiling in superhuman manner to dig through the cave-ito reach the miners entombed, although the rescuers now feel certain that most, if not. all of the men are past human aid. At 6 o'clock Saturday afternoon the mine officials refused to give out the names of men in the mine. They stated that they would not give out any names until it was tmain the men were m the mine. Fifteen rescuers were overcome by gas, four were so seriously effected that they were taken to the hospital. The cave-i- n of the manway was too great to permit any hope of reaching the miners through that entrance, and work was concentrated upon the main portal. The air shaft, o, has filled, and men worked on this so that desperately U" might get into the mine, and gas might escape, for it is reared that the interior nf the mine is filled with eas. and every moment is considered one moment nearer death for wose in the mine, for those who have not already died. Six helmet teams, with masks, work in relays in gas ie atmosphere so heavily laden with poison that even animals are driven away. women and children, in their pitiful terror and heartrending grief interfere with the rescue work. Everywhere, in nearly every home there are crying cmidren and Sohhin- -' nmmon The pity of it all is that the miners on the surface, those i' ve.d ln the rescue work, are all single men, for they were 01 10 ve wrk to the married men, and now these mar-"e- a men are buried in the grave of a coal mine, while the men who were turned away are alive. evenin it was said by leaders in the rescue that ' no k a would removed until Sunday afternoon, and that all tfcV I bodies miht not be removed until Monday. Until todies are brought out it will be impossible to state wtmitely who were in the mine. . .85 i - - REFUSES NAMES 1 IC ; lMyl! 6 0 o o o DAUGHERTY HERALD REPORT !! M(n))E Effiilo) nPiEin) VinrlE) J:LnJiyir is IrW-yyiwlsV1I1M1E RTOFi ffilfW R fPAT ... 000000'0'0000000000000000000.00-n rv no Are EmomoOT M vuoaJl w - .. i1 fAfl - ) PRICE TWO CE : PROVO, UTAH, SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1324. ((TOE I IT AH Fair fim&aj; PraU fair Monday. nir, first in circulation, first in advertising, and first delivered in the homes. NO. 43. 0 0 0 THE WEATHER HE first report of the Castlegate mine disasl ' pany here. came out of Carbon county officials of the Utah Fuel cor Mine officials said the blast came pany began preparation for a special train to carry doctoi , Just after ft o'clock. . No word from the interior of the nurses, hospital supplies, company officers, and newspap ' mine hud been received up to noon. reporters to the scene of the explosion. Approximately 175 miners enterSaturd. Provo 1:05 at The special train arrived in ed the underground workings at 7 afternoon. Here it was boarded by Dr. Norman CSpaldin, o'clock this morning. Rescue work was under way veterinary surgeon of the Utah Fuel company ; Sheriff Jot within thirty minutes after the ex- D. Boyd, Preston G. Peterson, and Ns Gunnar Rasmuson, repplosion occurred but the work was for The Herald. ? . lack of badly humored because Reporters for Salt Lake newspapers also were on and the equipment in Castlegute fact that the mouth of the mine was Bpecial, The Provo Herald being the only newspaper in Uta ; jammed with debris that 'bad been outside Salt Lake City, sending a reporter to the Bcene of th', ; hurled by the force of the blast. disaster to obtain for its readers the latest and most acci Mine rescue crews at Clear Creek, Winter Quarters and Plnney, Utah, rate information of the explosion and entombing of minen Others on board the special train included C. B. Hotcr In what is known as the Seofield field, were immediately ordered to kiss, assistant general manager of the Utah Fuel company ; the scene of the accident and it A. C. Watts, chief engineer; Judge F. Erickson, of the was expected they would reach here U. S. Fuel company; Ott','; Moroni shortly after 1 o'clock. A crew with musks and oxygen Harris. U. S. Fuel company; W, M. Wetzell, H. E. Lewis1 paraphernalia wus reported on its Robert Howard, E. A. Hodges, fuel company officers; Stat way here from Hiawatha, Utah. Mine Inspector B. W. Dyer, Doctors K, S. Allison, Benjamii, Crowds of. weeping women and T. Slattery, divisioi children gathered around the por- Murray, oi the bureau of mines; J. ta! of the stricken mine shortly superintendent in, charge of special pipe for air and water ' of Utah Fue.,' after the explosion and It was nec- and William Littlejohiv general superintendent ' essary to keep muny.of. the .hys- eotupanyfe'veflettbrk?'' rJ'" ,v, terica!" women from entering the to from hurried Rescue were trains boti; Castlegate, tunnel in an effort to rescue the was believed that the rescue worl;. Price and Seofield. entombed men., According to mine company offi- could be done by the help of these cities and none other waf cials, the best checkup of' their called on, although Edwin S. Hinckley, secretary, Provt, books place the number of men volunteered any aid that Provo couk within the mine at 172. Chamber of Commerce, trsped i- The condition of the debris extend. nrouud the portal and the strong The Provo lodge of Elks Saturday afternoon sent twe1 odor of gas led to gloomy four representatives to Castlegate to aid in the rescue work, and, ' amongst those on the outside that to look after the welfare of members of the lodge a large majority of the eutrapied especially The Provo lodge has several members, men would die from suffocation and and their families. burns before rescuers could get to working in the Castle, .gate mines. Edward Scherer and Wil-- f them. liam Crawford, representing the Provo lodge, left oirihe 6'Most of the imprisoned miners o'clock D. & R. G. W. tram for . Castlegate. were iiui tiled, with fuiiiillca, and the little mining camp of Cnstle-gatwith an estimated population men in the town were onca to the aid of the entombeC; of 1000 souls, gathered en masse employed in the mine and It will be miners, the message stated. : a round the mine mouth hoping that several hours before organized restheir loved ones, through some cue crews from outside can reach FRIDAY'S RESULTS. miracle, might have escaped to the scene. inner chambers where gas had not Parowan, 28, Soutn Cache 19. SAN FRANCISCO, March 8. A Springville, 27, Lehi 15. penetrated. The Utah Fuel company is a sub- message to the King Coal company Dixie, 18, Provo 14. sidiary of the Denver & Rio Grande here today from their superintend: Ogden. 84, Uintan, 17. Western railroad, and railroad offi- ent at Castlegate, Utah, stated Pnnguitch 19, Bmgnam 17. cials were recruiting volunteers at there were 173 men believed to be L. D. Si U. 33. Jordan 23. i ' an early hour this afternoon with a in mine No. 2 of the Utah Fuel " view to making an heroic effort to SMITH WINS CONTEST. . company where un explosion euti the mine. The R. R. Irvine bratorjeal con properties rushed at test was won by Frauds Smith ln- -' Castlegate is in the center of the extensive Utah coal fields of tunnel type. Rescue crews from all stead of Walter Smith as stated In Carbon county. Practically all the adjouiiug r h properties rushed at Friday's Herald. . . orter it . . ' Hner, - It ! - able-bodie- d ; " : 't i 1 Reprinted From The Herald9 s Extra (Special to The Herald.) CASTLE GATE, March 8.One hundred and eighty-on- e coal in No. Mine miners yere entombed 2, of the Utah Fuel company, to following an explosion, thought have been a dust explosion. The men had not been in the mine long on their day shift when the earth trembled and rocked beneath the pressure of what some persons thought was an earthquake, but which was the explosion within the mine. Within a few seconds after the explosion every woman and child, wives, mothers and children of the men entombed, crowded around the mine hole, weeping and hysterically calling to the men buried beneath the surface. Calls for help were immediately telephoned by the chief clerk of the Utah Fuel company, to Price, Salt Lake City, and other mining camps. The Salt Lake office of the Utah Fuel company immediately responded with a special train to carry physicians, nurses, hospital equipment, and newspaper correspondents to Cas tle Gate. This tram was scheduled to leave halt Lake at 11:15. Number 2 mine is in Willow creek, and is one of the older mines of the Utah Fuel company. It goes straight into the hill, back more than two miles. Coal is brought to the main bore by mule teams, and through the bore by electric trains. About 700 coal miners work in the mines here of the Utah Fuel company. Most of them are married and have families. Probably! three-fourtof the miners now entombed in the No. 2 mine have! their families here, accounting for the heart-rendin- g scene at the mouth of the mine when word of the explosion spread through the town. ,i ; The company's doctor immediately called to Salt Lake City hs ; ; for-physician- s and nurses. was with difficulty that mine guards prevented women and It children from rushing into the mine hole following the explosion, as women cried aloud in their grief, and insisted up- on going into the mine to find their relatives. J Women were called on to aid men in the first work of rescue. Unknown quantities of earth, rocks and coal are piled to the roof in the main shaft into the hill. How long it will take to go through v . J.L.! 1 J t .i wt. una tu- gei io- me miners Duncu is unKnown to tne Utan ruel oili-;- ; cials here. Every miner employed in the camp has been called! out to engage in rescue work at No. 2. It is feared here that the explosion may have killed many of i the miners entombed, and that others were sent to their deaths be-- 1 neath the falling rocks and coal. Fear of mine damp is also ex- - H pressed. Lack of air to breathe back of the fall may cause fur-- 1 ! ther casualties, it is said. All Castle Gate today is praying that rescue gangs can work I through the mass of earth and coal to bring air to the buried men. i : fear-strick- X- en A. A- At- 1 J. . i |