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Show AS OTHERS SEE US aa inch per ft LSfw the mont T'lJTn inch per - if addition1- W) lnFitt vM to"' iV toeue- - rondoro lino I I AS AN Tho Sun. INDEPENDENT NEW8FAPEK InCastleGate Mine Takes Life of Every Man In .osion A OF t. sa No Volume 10, Number a0Oaneanen R. W. Crockett, editor of the fsar-lePrice Son, son Dr. C. N. Jen ten, etete enperintendent of nebula, is playing Jekyl sad Hyde roles in tbs schoolhonse controversy. Myton Free Press, 7th. IS NOTED FOR tot first round on the golf course. IIS Only Four Remain into mourning Opened in 1911, In Mine iastle Gate is the fa UBts On List As Working, And Seyentj-Fn- e show mine of the Utah Fuel companys properties. In fact in many respects it is rntU ahead of any other Carbon eounty ftnioon shows that onM ba men in the mine at the time of mine, which marks it as one of the remarkable mines of the country to count the According really brtmhl?ut than iw stm loqp to hs recovered. These are in tha and of the world. Originally started in dips, and au f a vein of eoal eight feet in height, b2CMJ of water in the lower after about three yean of operation pump is now working it ia likely ea the mine waa extended by a drift bte to get to thesTmen before ai According to tho records of tho company then are through the rock to tap another vein identified before the list can be said to ho of eoal which had by diamond drill hdd known- - With tho four in exploration been found to lie at tome tw ittle distance above the first opened n tko incomplete list in seam. Thia last vein ia of a thickness rt.abrtMh.,, tew, cUimrt Hr jrtS: of twenty-fiv- e feet Here is about the great auastcr will be fonnd on easiest coal mining that eould be impage. agined, aa well aa being conducive to most economical production. To work in thia high coal would seem inWYOMING OFFERS TO SEND deed a snap for a eoal miner. Mines ANXIOUS TO QVE AID at Hiawatha and Kenilworth, a well HELP BY AIRPLANE as at Winter Quarter have vein simBeal Immediate Need Was For One of the sidelights showing the ilar to, hut in no case fully as high Attention Rot Money. spirit of helpfulness and the quickneea si here. of the world to take advantage of These, eoal veins dip or slope Following out the usual procedure modern ways lies in the story that the down toward the north on about a in former incidents where loss of the Union Pacific Coal 10 per cent grade. The main entry eom)iany at Bock head of a family has left dependents, Springs, Wyo., sent in a message soon ia driven aerosa the vein on a levtL e turn shoots this tunnel many people were for starting cam- after the explosion, offering to send A paigns to raise money, gather up food out a rescue crew by airplane. Aa there across to cut into tha upper vein, afand snpply other articles which it was were plenty of organized resene ter reaching which it again turns to thought would be badly needed. This workers locally, thia was not deemed eroaa the coaL At right angles to the main entry, running with the eoal on was a wholly mistaken idea. The Utah necessary, but it nevertheless show Fuel company had at once placed at the jiossibilitiea that are developing its dip or slant ia .cut the main the disposal of ell the supplies at the for quick action in time of trouble. slope 'Which ia tha feed tunnel for the main haulaga entry and the out-store in Castle Gate, and there wss And when, added to the speed for the rooms where eoal ia mined. by plane is considered the short available the money needed for funeral arrangements as provided in the cut that eould be made as compared This main slope runs both downward state workingmens compensation law, with the journey by train, this meth- and up from tha main entry and located at its top is a hoist which pulls and in instances where other necessi- od would have saved many hour. up the eoal from the lower workings ties appeared these would be alleviator Power Utah the and dips and lowers it from the Light company, ed to any required extent Under the Mrs. C. IL Stevenson, head of the upper working or raises after it the of working compensation art each local chapter of the Red Cross and has been brought to the main slope family or the dependents of the deR. Marc uen aa a icpiesentative rom the rooms, these being eut from Carl ceased will be awarded five thousand which are tunnels run who citizen has a knowledge of condi- the levels dollars, which will be paid in weekacross the eoal at various points and in tions Carbon eounty. installments. haul No resistance ly The real immediate need of help at along and all opening into the main been or will lie made to these proviSo that fifth left Jip Castle Qste wss for workers to give alope. sions, and advances on such are made in the commonplace household would be the room on the level of sid freely. That e fund shall be raised taske which eould not be number to the west .going gown properly that to supplement the amount as provided handled by the distracted womenfolks into the lower part of the mine, and by the compensation law, however, is of the stricken homes. There was also fifth left raise would be at a coranother matter. After ell five thous- much real responding point going into the upper labor connected with the and dollars may not be enough to keep in each ease along of the rescue workers, which workings, counting feeding some of these families going properly, main slope Yl from its intersecneeded attention. The Cautle Gate and should a big trust fund be gathward relief society and the Carbon tion with the main entry. ered to extend or add to the payments All these various tunnels are Stake organisation have done wonnobody eould find fault It ia pointed ders along these lines, aa well as help- double that is, at a short distance out by the officials of the coal comThe !rom each runs another one parallel ing in the burial amrgement. pany that the workers in the other Red Cross has been unremitting in the to the first, similar, it might be said fields over the country would feel effort to lighten the burden for the to the two wires of an electrie cirmuch hurt were no opportunity given bereaved families. The women of the cuit A cross tunnel eut between the them to contribute their mite to such American Legion Auxiliary have la two furnishes ventilation through the a cause. bored faithfully. Some Salvation action of a fan plaeed at the outlet Governor Charles R. Mabey visited Army workers have been present min- of one of the entires, and these eroaa tunnels are provided all through the Carbon enunty Sunday and Monday istering with their usual and levels y to the rooms. As the work and took up the matter of starting a efficiency. There has been ao ia carried further fqkward a ngw As to lines. these do to workand much ao subscription along many willing whether its scope shall be to take in ers to do it that it is impossible to cross tunnel is eut, and the older one nation- give deserving credit to alL Much di- is blocked up ao aa to fores the air only this stats or be made wide and as to how huge the amonnt rection of this work, and especially of to circulate through the new one. stoppings to be raised should be set, ia all in the the burial arrangements haa been giv- These blockings era th hum!, of various committeet' appoint- en by Bishop George Ruff. He waa and are usually a concrete walL All or nearly all of these were blown ed by the governor after his return called down from Scofield to take ont in tha explosion, which explains toto Salt Lake City. He brougiil eharge and give the benefit of hia it was so diffienlt to reestablish why inthe of in the big smoothing lifelong helpfulness gether representatives ventilation and clear the mine of gases and eivie bodies dustrial concerns and paths of those in distress. His kindly after the blasts. Only when temporthe whole thing seems to hinge on the presence has lent a benign influence had been plaeed "stoppings ary is to the sad rights carried on in the formed of report to be made after a survey brattice (heavy burlap mT. to determine the needs of eaeh sorrowing community. Pastors- and eould be controlled the air cloth) the before officials ef various churches have in ita flow. At one high family. A meeting held of the work, stag governor in Price last Monday morn- conducted burial services and attend- when crew were working both in the Castle matters to faithfulto ed with religious ing sent a delegation up and in the main enescape wsy Gate with his excellency to confer ness and unselfish devotion. Heber J. in their endeavors to penetrate try Latter-daand y the officials of Grant, president with the eoal companys morSaints ehurch visited the camp. He into the workings, some of the changes arrange preliminaries. Thursday not acquainted with Bishop Ruff, made in the flow of air by the workwas started committee ning the governors ers in the main entry earned a rash of reputo work at Castle Gate. The members but knew of the old gentleman bad air and explosion gases to eome work of needed the kind for mine tation a of this body are Imcr Pitt toward the men in the other tnnnel, asked for and here him, requesting manager, Harold Fabian an attorney, and a narrow escape for that crew him to introduce the those that Ameriof the Bishop D. T. Lane, commander was cause for taking ont the men from whom he came in eontaet with can Legion and also claim agent for the main entry. Since that time al work has been through the escape. blast of tremendous volume shortly after 8 oclock the people in Castle Gate were just begin-thugjgj morning, there had been some kind of an explosion in ft at another of almost equal proportions struck distil vary souls. It was not long before it was recognized hi toll of life would be taken among the workers inside, cause for increasing belief that spaing of every hour gave mine. According to the best leave would the survivor frgb time there were a hundred and Tla.Hs at the present men in the workings at the time of the mishap. An .count is as yet declared to be impossible. The check board goutii of the mine was blown from its position and the find-- 1 replacing of the checks on their pins has been uncertain A list of those to be too fully accepted as entirely correct. when k li W ia the mine has been , : ' : - an. Ukj; Per-on- ; sfta 4 tha mue of The Bun, The first instance, following so quickly listed ehecki with the aa to make it a little uncertain aa to 1nrfmiit made last Batur-- whether there wag really two or one las be depended upon aa be- - and a reverbration. cup-abSecond Slut lighter. hiring been ehecked with molds at 5 oclock this That the second explosion heavy riiftersoou. aa it waa is considered small comSm Vet Explained, pared to the first, may be gathered fkt eeoied the explosion is from the statement of one of the en-j out ttj erer be known. That giueers that the debris waa shothum-diter gas or dust or both in the last blast only five of course. But if it was dred feet. Whatever hopes might have said hart been some end- - been entertained by the most sanguine aoniuiy accumulation of that any of the men in the mine could hne rnxture, as the fire Uved throuffh the ptaiun iaidi their regular rounds hlv, blast and then have surthese of rim to the entry of the min-h- d vived in the presence of the consethe boeses themselves after gases faded rapidly (tea-af- ter reporting the quent the when first of the bodies were In gas had returned into out. Along about midnight with brought the miners p ikmg d included among the vic-a- li the body of Motorman Harrison was the explanation of the gotten to the outside, From thit time jaght as evidencing exees-Ite- n, on varying numbers were brought out one is met with the as the hours passed. Up to Wednestet this mine had a remark-k- ti day at midnight the total had reached Seven men iprinkling system, that a hundred and thirty-fiv- e. Inter was available and were brought out during Thursday. m that in this respect it Those recovered first were from the iheea told that nothing has dips. In the raises the gas was dm. So, engineers and not sufficiently dissipated so that the ' dike an unable to place searchers could enter until Wednes- of the explosion ea- the initial one. It ia ex-- F well-knoHelmet Men First Is. mbs that the final blast All exploration work from the very hmftom dust raised by first has been by the organised res-eR wring effect! as crews wearing helmets. These the first. About a month Ide Bins proceeding as the fan cleared inspectors John men, a little, would arrange ao the 1 air through this mine. lie the currents could be carried a by CL C. Mathers of that, further in, have entered the little They pronounced Tooma to find the bodies of the minTetory. ers, and have carried them out to the flwughout Mine, fresh air' passages when the could wrkinga of the mine stretcher bearers and workers work This surfsee. the to them extent trom bring 21 V81!8 the after the effects of started quickly waa very ex-to the unbeen up has and kept bv. been pretty explosions couCarbon over the whole ever since. prop- - remittingly rescue crews are famous over the ntys wor,o in dome , a other, but comnation-wid- e thia may whole country. In a the two ago than less years a the physical con- - petition the fter team-awinning the mine. Kenilworth to the big meet vered privilege of going the other sectiona of the At St. Louis through besting tournament held here-bro- ught in teams a avSttboaameeffecte. home the prize. Previous to with s several years ago, the world and evidently this, ? local rfw. the won wss by atense heat which championship were more than in the explosion. Sunnyside team. There teams who have worked filled with twenty picked with nnslarking energy to bnng out the the bodies of their fellow workers. RESCUE WORKB LOSES FIFE IK ATTEMPT TO w stribL abut They have been aided by experts who indicated come in from widely seperated points porali Of these with the mine rescue ears. their lives in their hands government from carrying their man. Another crew th One from Butte, Mont., started only theTaking members of the rescue crews most then went in for Wilson, who waa tunneL have f disaster, a couple of hours after the the camps of Carlion county still breathing when brought out, hut the into Weriiere WM bl0WB delved faithfully Paarc On Kiadt) died in spite of every efort to save their of bodies ; th-(Continue rails, rilUL pit to search out was at all lMwe is him. He leaves a wife and children. Saddening indeed di ThTV workers. fellow Wilsons dependents will receive benSHERIFF GUARDS DISTRICT it to record that one of these enunder the compensation proviefits noble his workers lost his life in sions the same aa those lost in the in Effect deavors. Working lNibwn, mine. Orderly Regulations Put Into Saturday afternoon, George team was Authority. In the early hours of the rescue Standardville County By captain of the and was work there were many who would not foul that P gases the overcome by afci i of the time he leave the scene. Castle Gates team ,teno" Necessary regulation bevond resuscitation by ai the of scene nune One members were --some of them in the the "tart nP the of people about the of out wild he brought been in first from has aster explosion. Harold Huff with the the, fu2feneral sports member of the damaged. At the hands of Ray Deming, sheriff or ex- - the cas and two others started to ear towns rescue crew worked incessantaid the ? the for thrs of ly for three day. He hid a brother mit apparent kon enunty. Calling to hisfrom rv Mm out This accunts vgn" seemed to have and a cousin in the mine. Only when force ot guards Wilson Prienccd famP . aid from the trunbte'of some kind with his ptndiing hr! Li a their bodies had been recovered atu . pi res, an d h a vingmuch of the eou help.tea material were to be taken to Spanish Fork for becoming American Legion posts mask, and was rapidly burial would he break his shift. deputieshave bis and ii801- - A sheriff nian'sa.aidinghim the ty, less. The fifth lie effective n Either hun. bftviirfted tbif A similar story might be told o:! handled the situation in along, finally carrying 1 Verne manner. Avery. His brother and other ana neipiui si real orhiL a relatives were among the victims. E. cn iven to ,,virho had f?!1 dm h an E. (Teddy) Jones the safety man for the ti,n',AJrark cause for approaching the mine, a traffic along the narrow greets f the United States Fuel company was thi, Willow t,rml or the up also unremitting in his work, being on the roadway the town and mnJu "f the es- - Creek haa been eared for I shift continuously more than forty f tesnT . V1 Wllaide slmjic. Deming has put in (Continued On Page Four.) 1 ls,,npr of fulhoura and is highly commended hj re,-- the outside with the omen nV though this ex- - all for Lis good work.- 1 a ne .7. AD tfr JJJbe dV,'rin etr if Of. "ewa"dnrfby 3'PJr rr .1'.0r r,; And This mine is about a mile in a direct line east from Castle Gate town and the railroad. To reach it on must transverse the roadway down the main (Price) Canyon and then up Willow (.reek, making the distance to be traveled somewhat greater than straight across. Tha No. 1 mine enter the hillside right at the towusite and on tha opposite side of Pries Canyon, and ita tipple is alongside and over the tracks of the Denver and Th Rio Grande Western railroad. eoal from No. 2 ia brought to the same loading point by an electrie tramway. There are no works at the mouth of No. 2 mine for taking ear of the mined eoaL No. 1 mine has I wen worked for nearly forty years, but was shut down just a few daya ago on account of slackness in the eoal market, and concentration of the ' working force waa made over into et le 1 Workers Lost War Oldtimer Natives of tha Gamp. right-angl- ; DEPOSIT WAS A P1CEED CREW 11 juuf2?lta Not Yet Recovered By Searchers i jy MIL the No. 2 mine at hilS ud I r. used to be that the early bird the worm, but now ho gets the OF COM. RND EASY W0RKM6 UNDETERMINED ORIGIN PLUNGES COMMUNITY ' -- It Week Ending Much 14, 1921 Working - 4 i : 'r T No. 2. For a eouple of years the mine of Carbon eoilnty in common with n ike eonditioq all over the country lave been running on short time. As a result of this, the crews remain- Vt F ing are old standby workers, mostly i men with families living at the camp. Some of these miners havo spent (heir entire lives as residents of Casl'e marGate, their parents having ried here and brought up their families in the camp. At tl.e time of dosing down the No. 1 mine a further sifting out of the siogle men waa made, and the fact that about a quan ter of the. workers listed as in tha nine are unmarried ia accounted fur very largely by the fact that thaw are sons, who were on the job with their father. These oldtimoia an personal friends of the operators or officials of the mining company, some of whom have risen from the ranka and in former daya dug eoal alongside these old comrades. Aside from the consternation thrown into the officialdom and superintendency of the company by the calamity, then cornea the grief for the loss of old g friends. it might tot said During the last two or three daya, aa the rescue work progressed along the workings on the east aide of Wit low Creek Canyon, one eould faea about from watching this and view tha scenea just below the road where funerals for the loved ones were being conducted. Sad indeed waa it to see the caskets being lowered into th earth while at the same time the bodies of more victims were being brought out of the mine only just across th road. Th earing for the dead as they were recovered waa a great task. Tha Knighta of Pythias hall was into a morgue whore a fores of undertakers prepared tha bodies for burial. Identification of the men ' haa in moat cases been easily established, bnt some few badly burned, mutilated and blackened have, presented difficulties so that at thia writing four are still held without knowledge aa to who they may be. When all bodies remaining in the mine havo been taken out it ia likely that a system of cheeking will determine the facta. About half of .the victims will hs buried at Castle Gate. Many have been interred at Helper and at Price. Others are taken to Emery eounty and quite a few are scattered over the state, some being taken to other states. BIRDS GIVE UP LIVES TO AID WORKERS hf-e- i r' i- i' 5 i . - i.; life-lon- eon-vert- ed LIGHTS, TELEPHONES. WATER-LINEARE REPLACED Work of supplying lights and S : fcP H tr. u r.' . i . 'i :V tele- One of tha deadly gases that forms phone service in the mine was handled in a mine with an explosion ia carbon by willing workers who made no count of the hour in the shifts. Laying wamonoxide. It ia a sure and quick-actin- g is poison. It quite likely the; ter pipes to help fight the firea in the George Wilson was killed by this gas. mine haa also been a tremendous job. Tasteless, orderless, it insinuates its presence into a mans lungs without warning, and by ita action on the blood causes death. That the fresh air crews might work with assurance of safety a canary bird is earned into the mine. These little ereatnrea are more sensitive to the deadly gas than are the humans, and by their fluttering give warning when it is present before it would be detected by the men. Quite a few of the birds were brought into service from local homes, while many more were shipped in for tbia use. MONEY FOR SCHOOLS First apportionment of state high Right up to the front of these activities haa been Morgan King, Prices eity electrician. Lights are now operating through twelve hundred feet of the main entry and five hundred feet through the escapeway. Telephones have been put in all through the mine. The big new pump which had been installed and was almost ready to work at the time of the explosion wss started np today (Friday) after the circuits laid for it had been put back into condition. The big cable laid down the eseapeway for this circuit had been stripped of ita insolation down to the iron banding as cleanly along its top side as though eut off with a knife. school fnnds was made last week. SevThe Ladies Aid society ia to meet ty enty per cent of this ia now ready for next Thursday afternoon at the distribution on a basis of $3.67 per cachurch parlors. Member and pita (estimated). Carbon eounty gets friends are most cordially invited. gets $1379.92; Emery $1123.02, and Mrs. W. F. Meyers and Mrs. Assy Duchesne, $811.07. are to he the hostesses. Com-muui- i- i , I i |