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Show CAELOAD OF COFFINS. Special Freight Started to Scofield Last Night. A carload of coffins was started last night for Scofield. There were 123 of them, each boxed separately. They xvill eincase the belies of tome of the Winter Quarters victims. More coffins, ordered order-ed from Denver on Tuesday night, were due in Scofield late las1: night. The caskets from Salt Lake xvent by tfpecial freight, train. In addition to the boxes for the dead, went help for the living. It xvas' in thff shape of a carload of proisiop(. which will be distributed at the earliest possible moment to those 111 nt:ea ot taeiri Tne bulk of the provisions pro-visions came from Armour & Co.'g local j branch as a voluntary contribution. All of the undertaking establishments in . Salt Lake worked unremittingly to I get out that carload of coffins. Every ' casket of the kind desired that couM j be found here xx as used, and others had to be telegraphed for at Denver. S. D. Evans, xvho it-; in charge of th arrangements for the funeral, sent two assistants to Scofield yesterday morning. morn-ing. Txvo more will leave for the scei,e of the horror today. The undertaker said last night that eviry thing po.i!.;.. xvas being- (lone fur the dead. lie thought the morticians of .-s;it Lakh-ad responded magnificently to the ,n.-Ui-iual demand made upon them, and that, considering the difficulties und, : xvhich all had labojvd. the work 'am.-, accomplished in remarkably e-hori ti::i-1 ti::i-1 ' ' |