OCR Text |
Show UTAH CATASTROPHE CAUSES W LOSS SEARCH OF ILLFATED MINc STILL CONTINUES TO OCCUPY TIME OF MINERS One or Two Bodies May Yet Remain in Castlegate Mine; Cost to Company Com-pany Is Estimated at $1,500,000 Castlegate, Utah. The search for the bodies of the victims of the explosion ex-plosion of mine No. 2 here on March 8 continues in an effort to locate one and possibly two more bodies that are believed to be hidden in the death cavern. Late Monday the rescue res-cue squad brought to the surface the body of Franklin Evans, leaving only one body in the mine according to the official Utah Fuel company's- report. re-port. It is thought, however, that a mischeck may have occured and two bodies still remain in the depths. The bodies of the following men, who were reported working in the mine at the time of the disaster, remain re-main either to be recovered or identified: iden-tified: Basil Gettins, Pete Dunis, Thomas Pelly Jr., and Steve Speros. It is believed that one of the two bodies lying in the improvised morgue mor-gue is that of young Pelly and effort ef-fort is being made to identify him. If there is only one body in the mine, and that has been brought out has disappeared, according to information. infor-mation. The check made at the entrance en-trance to the escapeway, where the bodies were numbered as they were brought from the mine, show one more body than is accounted for in the morgue. It is believed that someone some-one identified a body and when the attention of the guard was diverted took it from the morgue. The disaster will cost the Utah Fuel company approximately $1,500,-000 $1,500,-000 in compensation, repairs to mine, labor in . the recovery of the bodies and loss in operation during the next month, it was estimated. Seven hundred thousand dollars . will be spent in compensation alone, according accord-ing to a part estimate made by company com-pany officials. In plots of ground at many different differ-ent parts of the state bodies of the mine victims have been lowered. |