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Show Park City In Mourning. DEATH from any cause brings gloom and sadness to the home. The sad disaster that has befallen befal-len Park City is one that appeals to all citizens for sympathy. The wholesale whole-sale massacre of the best citizens coming com-ing without warning as their night's work was about completed, hangs like a dark cloud over that prosperous mining camp and brings sorrow to many a happy home. The children's cry; the mothers' wail, and wife's heart-rending shriek will cause many a tear to be shed. The sister who- has lost a. fond brother is plunged in mourning; the brother's sad parting will change the whole tenor of his future life; the mother dazed by the shock, cannot realize her sad fate. The wife, with her little helpless children, chil-dren, thrown adrift on the world, become be-come unconscious. Her loss is irreparable irre-parable and as she glances with blanched face on the object of her love htr pitiful crys for a reunion is heartrending. heart-rending. Sympathy cannot stem the swelling tide of misery that flows over the souls of "these deeply afflicted and sad hearts whose brothers or husbands were included in the great' massacre. All the rich treasures in the two mines where the disaster occurred would not compensate for the sorrow and grief of one life lost by the explosion. Who is responsible for the sad accident? Is it necessary that an arsenal should be buried In some dark cave, and stand as a menace at all times against so many lives? Is there no protection for those who risk their lives daily in the bowels of the earth? Away from, sunshine, sun-shine, delving in hard rock with death lurking beneath their feet, the responsibility respon-sibility should be placed where it belongs. be-longs. Ordinary precaution is not sufficient. suf-ficient. In all such cases where so many lives are at stake there should be extraordinary precaution. The fact that the explosion did occur should make it a criminal offense to store combustible material in any mine. Whilst there is no statute to that effect, ef-fect, it is a warning served on mine owners that every possible precaution must be used to prevent a repltition o Wednesday morning's sad catastrophe. The mine owners we are. assured, are deeply affected by the tragedy. They are nearly all local capitalists whose broad western, views and generous hearts will go out in sympathy for the widows and orphans that are sad and desolate. A kind word and generous sympathy will be appreciated and rex ceive its reward. The Intermountain extends its condolence to all bereaved sufferers. |