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Show Utah-Apex Mine Disaster Claims Four Victims as Toll f ( ?L I . ' - ; liiMimftKlUWlilffi in ill ifuftlJUWhfci r y 1 f 'V4 I i f ' &',J''?i v I ' $ v r 1 i - i & I y vfk : h ' ; ' : ":-f v- a f ':.-' . r " '" ; ; " I : , ! 1 I S 1 , , -v at i , l ; .'. ;;v)rj cigarettes were drawn up by the men and thoroughly enjoyed. Later a two-foot drift was carried car-ried through and with lighted candles, which was later changed to carbide lamps, the imprisoned men were watching their rescuers, res-cuers, and in a short time were able to crawl to meet their friends who were on the tunnel level waiting to meet them. Nor-den Nor-den was in good shape, as was the Mexican, considering their fifty-six hours' confinement. N'orden was taken to his home and Ratalaza was moved to the Bingham hospital, where he stated he had been. in a similar cave-in for about the same length of time at Sunnyside. After the entombed men had gotten away from their confinement, confine-ment, the rescue party found the crushed and lifeless body of O. C. Nelson, which was removed at 2 a. m. on Friday morning and (taken to the O'Donnell parlors. His body was shipped later to ! Salt Lake City, where his family thought the rest of the miners had been killed, altho work was being persistently carried on. About 8 o'clock on Thursday morning Elmer Bonnett, the shift boss, heard faint tappings, lie stopped work and gave a signal, which was replied to by Supt. Norden, a signal of three raps. The news soon spread over the camp and everyone connected con-nected with the rescue work seemed anxious to redouble their efforts if possible. Master Mechanic Me-chanic Edward Morton's chiseling chisel-ing device, which consisted of a chisel fixed into a jack-hammer with the rotation removed, was used and much headway was made with this device, and at 10 o'clock p. m. the voice of Xordcn could be heard. At first it was hoped all five men entombed en-tombed were alive, but finally it was given out that Norden and Ratazala were the only live persons there. The dead body of O. C. Nelson lay beside these men. About 9:,i0 p. m Shift Boss Bonnett was able to crawl in underneath the stope where the men were confined and handed hand-ed Norden and Ratazala an axe and saw, so that they could cut thru the wood floor to meet the rescuing party. A wire was procured pro-cured and passed thru the hole, and soup, coffee, sandwiches and Supt. Joseph Norden Superintendent Joseph Norden, Joe Ratalaza, an electric locomotive loco-motive engineer, O. D. Baker and Frank Ortez are the only survivors of a party of eight men who went into the 1500-foot 1500-foot level of the Utah-Apex mine to retimber the No. 20 stope, on Tuesday morning. The stope was over 70 feet wide and 70 feet high, and was not filled in. About 4:30 p. m. a cave-in occurred, oc-curred, just a few minutes before be-fore Foreman Eden advised that work cease, as falling dirt and cracking timbers indicated there was not much headway being made. The men who were with Supt. Joseph Norden, Richard Armstrong, married ; O. C. Nelson, Nel-son, married; Charles Tarker, married; O. D. Baker, married; Joe Ratalaza, single, and Frank Ortez, single, started down the laddcrway when the crash came and were overwhelmed with crashing timbers, dirt and boulders. bould-ers. O. D. Baker was thrown by the concussion to a distance of twenty feet, as was the mo-torman's mo-torman's helper, Frank Ortez. Dan Eden, the foreman, who was following them, was caught in the cavc-in and instantaneously instantaneous-ly killed. His body was recovered re-covered bv an ardent band of workers at" about VIM m cd-nesday cd-nesday morning. The body was removed to the O'Donnell un-idertaking un-idertaking parlors and after enre-I enre-I fid examination no bones were f,n.d to he broken, although his l,(,dv wa badly bruised. His watch, which he wore m jus shirt Packet, was still n.nmn ! Mr Kdcn was bom in England !,, December 22. 1, and is ! survived bv a w idow and f -ur children. At that time it w:. j resides. Funeral services for ! Foreman Dan Eden will be held j from the funeral chapel of O'-j O'-j Donncll & Co. at Salt Lake City I on Sunday next at 2 p. m. The i men not yet found are Richard j Armstrong, married, and Charles j Parker, who was married to J Mrs. Rose Bloom on September j!)th of this year. |
