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Show PARK CITY IN MOURNING. Powder Explosion in the Daly-West Causes the Death of Thirty-four Hardy Miners' Brings Consternation to Thousands and Sorrow to Many Happy Homes Heroic Deeds of Rescuers and Fatality for Some Brave, Big-hearted Men. (Special to The Herald) PARK CITY, July 16. Two magazines at the 1,200 level of the Daly-West mine exploded about 1 o'clock this morning, morn-ing, causing a loss of life that at present cannot be estimated, or even guessed at. At 3 o'clock three men had been taken out of the mine dead, and several others had been recovered in a half dead condition. These were all brought out through the Ontario shaft, which is a mile distant from the Daly- . West, in which the explosion occurred. The 1,200 level of the Daly-West corresponds to and is connected with the 600 level of the Ontario. ; . j In the Daly-West mine between 100 and 150 men were at work. In the Ontario were nearly 100, it is believed. It is not known how many of these are dead, but the disaster extends to the. Ontario, as the noxious gases that have been let loose are known to be the cause of several of the deat-.s. The presence of these gases leads many miners to believe that the powder was burned', that the explosion, if one occurred, which, in the excited condition of the town it is impossible to ascertain with absolute certainty, was not the chief cause of the disaster. There are two powder magazines at the 1,200 level of the Daly-West, one at each side of the shaft, with a capacity capac-ity of one to two cars of powder each. A car of powder was added to the supply within the past few days. Three dead men have been taken out of the Ontario shaft, They are: George Garvin, Sweibel, employes of Ed Copp, who has the ore hauling contract for the Daly-West, and Sod- . erup a miner employed in the Ontario, who was working at least a mile from the magazines that exploded. It is believed be-lieved all three were suffocated, though gas may have killed them. - The explosion occurred at about 1 o'clock this morning, at an hour when every person in town was either asleep or at work, The shock was so tremendous that it awakened every one within a radius of miles. As an example of its awful force, it is told that two horses in the ore tunnel one and a half miles away, were killed by it. The excitement in Park City is tremendous. Not a person in the town but has friends or relatives working in the mine. Women and children are thronging to the Ontario shaft ;house, which is midway between Park City and the Daly-West. Nearly all of them have husbands and fathers in the mines, and their grief is pitiable. All of the doctors in town are at either of the mines. They are doing what they can to resuscitate the poor, unconscious un-conscious fellows as they are taken out, but it Is difficult to obtain information down town, as the telephone to the mine has stopped working. At 3:30 o'clock it is reported down town that eighteen dead have been taken from the Ontario shaft. It is presumed these are all Ontario men, as it would be obviously impossible for men to travel the distance from tbe Daly-West through the gas-laden air of the connecting tunnel. , 4 o'clock Twenty-two dead men have been taken out of the mine. At 4 o'clock the body of John Burgee, a powier monkey, was taken from the Daly-West mine, literally blown to pieces. It is stated that up to this time twenty-four dead have been brought to the surface, and twenty-one men rescued, many of whom are in a critical condition. ' . , Meager reports received at 4:30 state that a relief party which-;went into the Ontario shaft at 3 o'clock had not been heard from and .t is thought that they have been , overcome by the deadly gases. Relief parties are now being organized, or-ganized, and will be rushed to the scene of the disaster at once. The heat in the mine caused by the gas is so intense that it is necessary to change engineers every thirty minutes, j - y . It is learned that but one of the men rescued from the Daly-Jvest is alive, and it is the opinion that all who were in that mine at the time of the explosion have been killed outright. PAEK CITY, July 16. The Daly-West horror has rolled up a death list of thirty-four, and there it will probably end, although in the chaotic condition of things it i impossible to state with absolute certainty within two or three of the number dead. Thirty-four names, however," are given in. the list of. dead and missing, and it is stamped asofficial at the office of the company. - " All of these deaths were caused by asphyxiation, except that-of John Burgy, the powder boy, who doubtless was responsible for the explosion, and whose body was. torn into pieces. ' Four of the number gave up their, lives in. the heroic work of rescue. This roll of honor consists of John McLaughlin, John Eckstrom, Richard Dillon and George Richardson. : Six bodies are still in the mine. They are. those of Mike Crowley, John Carney, Peter llaron, Thomas A. Kelly; Charles McAlinden and Patrick M. O'-Neil. . ; . j - - .. ' It will never be known to a certainty what caused the explosion and the gas horror attending, but that it. was the result of a visit to the powder magazine on the 1,200 level by John Burgy, the "powder monkey," is unquestionable. un-questionable. The young man entered the mine at 11 o'clock, a few minutes before the explosion. He is a cigarette smoker, and it is said has been seen to go into the magazine at times, not only smoking, but carrying a lighted candle, which is unnecessary and contrary to orders, as the magazine is provided with a powerful electric light. He dropped either his candle or a spark from his cigarette into the giant powder, and by the explosion, which followed his body was blown into atoms, while the other men in the mine were slowly overcome by the gas. Burgy, the accidental cause of the horror, hor-ror, was to have been married next Wednesday to Miss Ethel; Smith of Hebcr City. The miners who were caught by the deadly gases were on the 1,400 level, far away from the explosion, and probably did not realize the seriousness serious-ness of the mishap before the fumes overtook them and grandually rendered ren-dered all unconscious. They went, then, to a peaceful death, with an expression ex-pression that was almost a smile on every countenance. As to the amount of powder the magazine contained, the officials of the mine would not make an estimate, and claimed they did not know. Many different reports are heard in Park City, but the most authentic information in-formation fixes the amount at 7,000 pounds, or 140 boxes, weighing fifty pounds each. This is the amount usually stored there, and there is no reason rea-son to believe that it has been decreased or increased within the past few days. Experienced miners state that 1,000 pounds of giant powder is sufficient suf-ficient to wreck the interior of a mine for hundreds of yards, and that 7,000 pounds would literally tear up the whole diggings. The explosion in this case did not create as great havoc as might be expected, although it wrecked one side of the shaft, 200 feet distant from-the magazine, ar.d separated from the latter by a heavy wall. On the 900-foot level the shock was scarcely felt. The men stood debating among themselves whether or not there had been an explosion, some insisting that there had not, as no blasting blast-ing was done at that hour of the night. Later, however, it came forcibly to their minds that a disaster had occurred S00 feet below, and. they were among the first to make heroes of themselves. In view of the fact that the explosion was not very severe on the 900 level, the theory that much of the powder burned before the explosion has many adherents. - Miners who stood aghast at the horrors which were revealed went bravely down the shaft to rescue their friends. Some returned; others gave their lives in the effort. Buried under tons of rock at leat four men are known to await the exhumation which has been begun. Others are missing, but no one knows exactly how many.: Great piles of rock and dirt cover the bodies of the dead, and the work of the rescuing party is slow and tedious, while the two small morgues are already crowded with shrouded rows of dead miners. 1 The rescue work had to be abandoned : before the noon hour, as the gases prevented the men from venturing any distance from the shaft. Tonight To-night "it was resumed, and three more bodies were recovered. .-' The rescuers, res-cuers, at midnight, are waiting until morning. By means of pumps pouring water into the mine incessantly, it is hoped that the gas will be sufficiently settled to permit a thorough search for the corpses still at the bottom. The great volume of gas is apparently tonight in the region of the Ontario, as the amount of poisonous fumes coming up is worse even than last night, but no one being at work here, no danger will result. The claim was made that there were only about four men in the mine, but. those working there tonight claim that ten more will be added to the list tomorrow. tomor-row. The assertion is discredited by the officials of the company. . , ; . . Apart from the injury, to the shaft, which will require not a large amount to repair, it is believed that the mine, physically, is uninjured. There will be two official investigations into the disaster. One will be the coroner's inquest, conducted by County Attorney Callis tomorrow. State Mine Inspector Gomer Thomas will arrive here tomorrow morning to" make an examination, the result of which he will report to the governor. r j ,9mmmi mi U i, ji m., , ,r 1 1 1 , , . . in jijj il in ii j mi. iiih i ..in ! I m nir ' I '" ... . . Dead at the Daly-West . t f . Bodies Recovered. . JOHN BURGY, unmarried. 4 JOHN M'liATJGHLIN, unmar- ried. MICHAEL CONLIN, unmarried. CHRIS. CTJLLEN, unmarried. ' 4 JOHN DARKIN. RICHARD DILLON, unmarried. -- HARRY DERBIN, unmarried, -f JOHN FEATHERSTONE, un- married. JOHN GILL, unmarried. WM. LANCE, unmarried. 1 JOHN LIVELY, unmarried. . I JOHN MALONEY, unmarried. JAMES MARRIN, unmarried. THOMAS M'COWAN, unmarried. 4 JOHN M'ATJLIFFE, unmarried. ELLAS NELSON. 4 WM. SIMMS, unmarried. ' J. B. TINDELL, married. W. A. WEGGELAND, married. GEO. RICHARDSON, unmarried. JOHN ECKSTROM, unmarried. RAY JACKMAN, unmarried. .. Dead at Ontario. X Bodies Recovered. -f 4 GEORGE GARVIN, married. WM. SWEVEL. 4 STEVEN BARRATTA. CHRIS. P. SADERTJP, married. CHARLES NEIME. 4 W. F. THOMAS. t Dead at Daly-West. t Bodies Still Underground. MIKE CROWLEY, unmarried. 4 4 JOHN CARNEY. PETER HARON, unmarried. THOMAS A. KELLY, married. 4 . CHAS. M'ALINDEN, unmarried. PATRICK M. O'NEIL, unmarried DEADLY FUMES OF GASES RETARD RECOVERY OF DEAD. Park City, July 16. Despite the heroic he-roic exertions of the day, several men are still in the Daly-West. It is believed be-lieved the number is four, though some miners say fourteen. The deadly fumes following the explosion ex-plosion delayed the work of rescue. Pumps have been used all the afternoon to free the levels of the deadly vapors which still food the mine. AH last night and until noon today crowds of willing men toiled up and down the cage, bringing their dead friends to the surface. One of the two cages was crippled by the explosion. It is believed that Burgy, while looking look-ing down into the magazine in which the powder was stored, brought the candle too close and set fire to the powder. Burgy was last seen when he passed the station tender at the mouth pf the 1,200 level. One hundred men were in the mine at the time. Only those on the two lower Ievel3 were injured by the explosion. ex-plosion. Thirty-nine men were in the 1,400 level; only two in the 1.200, John Burgy and W. A. Weggeland. Both were killed. Burgy was blown into fragments, Weggeland asphyxiated. Two hundred feet below thirty-seven men were hurled to the ground. All; with the exception of ten, rushed to the shaft in an attempt to escape on the cage. They were met by rushing fumes of the deadly white gas, and alt succumbed. suc-cumbed. Three, however, have been revived. re-vived. Ten of the thirty-seven started for the Anchor mine, climbing through the shaft to the 900-foot level. Two died before they reached pure air. The other eight escaped through the Anchor ehaft, 400 yards away. The fumes rushing through the tunnel for a distance dis-tance of more than two miles, met two car drivers at the mouth of the Daly-West Daly-West tunnel. Both .were instantly killled. Three horses, which were driven by the men, were also killed. Rushing through the tunnel of the Daly-West, the poisonous gases poured (Continued on page 7,) a : 0 PARK CITY IN" MOURNING. (Continued from page 1.) Into the Ontario mine, prostrating several sev-eral men, some of whom have died. At 2 o'clock this morning Park City was told of the disaster. Whistles in the city shrilly aroused the inhabitants inhab-itants and rescuing parties were at once organized. Volunteers were called for to go down the mine. None of the crowd of miners stood back. Eight at a time were selected by the shift boss and the cage carried load after load down into the mine. Seventy-five men searched the levels for their dead comrades com-rades and two succumbed to the poison gas. John McLaughlin and John Eck-strom, Eck-strom, both of Park City, not employed at the mine, ventured too long and too far in search of 'the dead and were asphyxiated. Others of the rescuing parties were brouxht but unconscious. From 2 o'clock this morning until noon today ghastly bundles were brought to the surface. Lined in the hoisting works were rows of dead. Wagons carrying eighteen corpses into the city at 7 o'clock this morning were met by the directors of the mine who had just arrived from Salt Lake on a special train. Frenzied men and women rushed up the long, steep hill to the mine as soon as they learned of the disaster. Feeble rays of a candle dimly lighted the huge building where the bodies lay, while weeping relatives sought their dead. Issuing from the' shaft was the constant con-stant whiff of the deadly vapors. Two women, scantily, attired, with disheveled dis-heveled hair, have haunted the hoisting hoist-ing works since the disaster in search of their husbands, who have not been found. Entrance into the mine was at last prohibited in order to pump out the fumes. It was resumed at 7 o'clock tonight, when the bodies of John Eck-strom, Eck-strom, Ray Jackson and George Richardson Rich-ardson were recovered. After the recovery re-covery of the bodies work was again stopped on agcQjint 0f the gases which still flood the levels. Hour after hour since the fatal acci dent Mike Hennessey, shift boss, and John Ni mo,' foreman at the Daly-West, have toiled incessantly. . They have scarcely left the cage, which carries . down the rescuing parties, but remain re-main constantly on duty. Hennessey took Biirge d6yh the shaft fifteen minutes min-utes before the explosion. Tonight the excitement is subsiding somewhat, yet the streets are thronged with small groups of men. . Not a drop of liquor has been sold in the town today. . |
