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Show Price, Utah Thursday, October Sun Advocate, 2 . 29, 1987 ur . v vt t f I'.. .?1 iff ,"V rr: - A- ' w , ' ,' v, S aF o erf 0 roSCIKCH3o0 IZMIEMJ ($0nD(9lQDOCQpOC!Q35 Prices Effective Wed., Oct. TURKEYS Lowest Price Ever! The portal where the blast exited the mine Is directly below the large fir tree In this picture. Timbers and other debris had not been completely removed from around the portal and would not be until after the bodies were Don't be fooled by other stores' gimmicks recovered. COMPARE OUR PRICES! Winter Quarters from Page 1) plosion! Groups of miners began to make their way quickly to the portal of No. 1. Wilson and his partner were among 103 miners who would reach the safety of Winter Quarters Canyon, Milan wrote. The miners in No. 1 who managed to escape would learn the magnitude of the accident, but for those on the surface, there was no doubt what had happened and they knew it immediately. According to reports that those at the scene later swore true, a coal driver, working near the mouth of No. 4, were been thrown had 200 yards across the gulch at the mine entrance, his horse thrown half that distance, Milan wrote. The mans skull was fractured and a wooden stake had been driven through his abdomen, but he miraculously survived after being transported to St. Marks Hospital in Salt Lake City. Immediately, a rescue team was formed, but the men could not enter No. 4 due to the debris and dead horses blocking the portal. The men moved over to No. 1 which was connected to No. 4 inside the mine. Will Clark, a young miner who had been working on the outside, rushed ahead of the other miners to try to effect the rescue of his father and brother. He ran into afterdamp, a mixture of gases formed after a fire or explosion which cannot be respirated, and collapsed. He was dead when the rescue party reached him. J. Thomas Parmley, superintendent of the mines, notified the home office in Salt Lake City and began to organize more rescue teams. His brother, William, was in No. 4. Superintendent Parmley s crew, making slow progress, found three men, alive but unconscious, near the mine entrance. Badly burned and unrecognizable, the first miner to be carried out screamed in pain and begged his deliverers to kill him. His suffering would last for more than a day before death freed him, Milan wrote. A second miner died as rescuers carried him to Edwards boarding house near the mine entrance. The third man, William Boyter, Jr., required hospitalization at St. Marks. Boyter and Jacob Anderson, a miner who had been working alone off the first rise in a room that was untouched by the explosions force and intense heat, were the only men to escape with their lives from workings of Winter Quarters No. 4. As crews removed bodies, they were taken to the boarding house where others would remove the burned clothing and clean the bodies a best they could. A mountain of ragged clothing soon formed behind the boarding house. By the time mine inspector Gomer Thomas arrived that THEATERS Theater Hotline $37 1 7.30 4 9 30 fri., Sal. 4 7:30 onlj the rest of th, week Starting Friday Sim" 4 9 mine. the Several Cheddar Cheese times, members of our party were overcome by the damp, but we got them out in time. We found bodies of men in every conceivable shape, but generally they were lying on their stomachs with their arms about their faces... The men in No. 1 might possibly have escaped had they started to run as soon as the explosion in No. 4... occurred. Evidently, they did not appreciate this fact until too late, as they put on their coats and arranged their tools before Mild Turkey Drumsticks Rump Roast immediate Variety Pack I h, th, LIKE FATHER LIKE SON STAKEOUT ARTIST ii ffOt mill w :,45$ lb. Miller 1.69 1.79 lb- OkiiMiw, Bw!hI OwwMijwHjm 99' 2 19 9k,2. 1 9 12 m. I, -- 229 Carrots Red Delicious Apples .,1 .00 ,,79 Russet Potatoes,.! Peanuts Lettuce lb. Salted or Plain, bulk 79' Jta89' vicinity Thomas said in his to the governor. report Along the line where the powder exploded, all the bodies were badly burned, more so than in any other part of the mine. From this point, the blast shot down along the main and main-bac- k entries of No. 4 mine, gathering combustibles, such as dust, powder, etc., within reach. Part of the blast shot out to the surface through No. 4 tunnel and air shaft, and part went through the No. 1 mine. The part thereof, (Continued on Page Parmesan Cheese Chocolate Milk 3) Kraft Cream o Weber Copyright 1987 Sun Progress, All property of Sun Inc All rights reserved Progress, Inc No part hereof may be reproduced without prior written consent San Advocate USPS Published Every Tuesday and Inc. Thursday by the 76 W. Main, Price, Utah 84501. Phone (801) 5263-800- FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS Phone 63? 0132 Ext 20 I Stockburger, General Manager Chuck Zehnder, Managing Editor Second Class Postage Paid at Price Utah Post Office MtMfttHOF m ..... lb. Boneless LOST BOYS ill frl Sal. 4 Sun. Tri Boneless Stew Meat Variety Pack starting. They started, and Glut Value Smoked Ham Shanks however, just in time to meet the damp halfway. As the men worked deeper and deeper into No. 4, they found more and more evidence of the extent of the explosion. Eventually, they reached an area known as Pikes Peak. The state inspector found evidence that the explosion had been touched off at that point. A miners body found nearby was burned far more severely than any other and remnants of 10 powder kegs littered the area. Another 20 kegs in a nearby area had also exploded, adding to the force of the explosion. Further evidence showed that coal dust, before thought to be of little threat, had ignited also and further increased the force of the blast. It seems, from the evidence available, that some person accidently ignited a keg of powder, which caused the dust to rise and ignited the same, carrying the flames from a point known as Pikes Peak Wh hi HaltoMM KING KOAL 7 Ground Beef evening, 50 bodies had been removed. He went into the mine through No. 1 and then over into No. 4. They found almost 100 miners in the entries between the two mines who had died from the afterdamp. A member of the team with Thomas told a reporter what they had found in the mine : We had some hard experiences today going through Dart ? 705 rCROWN I) M a thru Tues., Nov, Get Ready For Thanksgiving! ST I ( Continued 28 TH( Member ol UtahPre,A,,ocltlofi and National Newspaper Assoc lation Subscription Rate; In Caibon and Emery counties, 135 per year, published twice weekly In Utah, eutstde area, Out ol state, J0. t?pryar &&& Jt 8oz. gal. 2.39 2.19 |