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Show mm mm TUflHTO TASKS DESPITE DEATH OF LOVED ONES, CRUSHED HOMES AND LOSS THEY CARRY ON Final Check Shows 39 or 40 Killed and More Than 200 Affected by Disaster. Relief Fund is Moving Forward. Ringham Canyon. Undaunted by the worst disaster in the history ot the Bingham region, the people of the Highland Boy mining district carry on. The final checkup o last Wednesdays Wed-nesdays caatrophe shows thirty-nine bodies taken from tho ruins, only one of which has not been definitely identified; iden-tified; thirteen persons in the Bingham Bing-ham hospital; twenty-five families without home, making a total of more than 200 persons who have been seriously ser-iously affected by the tragic visitation visita-tion of the white terror of the mountainside. moun-tainside. Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, pals and bunkies have been lost to their loved ones, homes have been crushed into matchwood, men and women wo-men are wearing borrowed clothes be cause tuey have no others, and still the men and women of the Highland Boy camp, centering around the Utah-Delaware Utah-Delaware mining camp, 7100 feet above seal level, in the winter fastness fast-ness of the Oquirrh mountains, continue con-tinue their daily work courageously. The spirit of "Mother" McDonald permeates the camp. "They're my boys and I'm their mother," sho said to The Tribune correspondent when asked if she would re-establish her boarding house. "They know me aixl I know them. My doughnuts to them are the best in the world, and they need me just as I need them. Of course, I'm going to start up again, else my boys wouldn't have any home." Tho people of the Highland Boy mining camp cling as tenaciously to their life work as do the houses to the almost sheer canyon walls. Men must work, activity must go forward, homes must he provided; tragedy cannot can-not be forgotten but the job of living must go on. The Highland Boy disaster dis-aster in Sap gulch is the story of fortitude, for-titude, physical and mental courage, tempered with the touch of fatalism always evident in a mining camp. With a number of large contributions contribu-tions received, the Bingham relief fund total was brought up to nearly $10,000 in actual cash. The largest cash contrbiution was $17,000 from the Anaconda Copper Mining company, of which the Utah-Delaware, the International Interna-tional Smelting and the Tooele Valley Val-ley Railroad companies are subsidiaries. subsidiar-ies. The appropriation of this company com-pany was for 25.000, but nearly $SOO0 of this amount has already been spent in the form of labor, which the Utah-Delaware Utah-Delaware volunteered immediately af-ler af-ler the disaster. |