Show DEAD ARE BEING GIVEN BIVEN UP AT AS WORK NORK MEADS HEADS DROP AS HOPE OF FINDING MEN ALIVE DWINDLE RESCUERS ARE RAPIDLY REACHING INNER 1 f WORKINGS OF MINE Little Town of Castle Gate Utah Is Scene of Most Pitiful Scenes s as Corpses Are Brought From Tomb and Placed Upon Wooden Slabs for Identification by Loved Ones Mine Officials Doing All Possible Castlegate Utah The The agony of suspense as to the lives of the miners entombed in Saturday mornings morning's mornings morning's mornings morning's morn morn- ings ing's explosion at the Utah Fuel company's company's company's com com- pany's coal mine here is ended forthe for forthe forthe the families of many of the victims The worst i is- is the news that they have feared For the others while the worst too will probably y be their mete mote hope none the less will linger while yet yot the outcome is at all tain tam Bodies are being rapidly ered but it is thought it will be several several several sev sev- eral days lays before all have been found Out at the mouth of f No 1 left es- es where the work is being carried on encouraging word of progress progress progress pro pro- gress brought the best bess news flOws since the disaster di aster happened Yet rapid as was the progress of Monday as compared compared com corn pared with that of the hours before the dangers which beset the res rescuing squads call for the utmost caution Gas helmeted crews still stilt lead lend the I Iway i inward of or the way in the followed by chambers of the mine I I bring fresh air waterline water waterline waterline those who clearing the line and the means for encounter encounter- I I are passageways as they I ed search must extend into even 1 I The recesses of the labyrinth labyrinth laby laby- the most remote before belore it will be bo ground round ninth below certainty that all allis allis allis to say with possible be known about that might is known in more than greatest tragedy Utah's of the worst mine decades decades' one decades one two disasters in the history of or western mining holds to the While sober judgment fatalistic conclusion that every man mati and caught within the mine is dead possibly has hus been dead for two days of s-a s safety ety for a afew afew afew and more the hope few at least can not be downed And the results added to the days day's yet efforts made before have yielded which it is possible to nothing upon accurately base such expectation mail As the funeral car and a into the somber truck impressed the service have alternated during luring from tragic journeys day in their ha has has- watched watch watch- mine to morgue the town ed their comings with ever recurrent fear on the part of nearly everyone that a n member of the family or ora ora ora a friend will be found at the journeys journey's journeys journey's journ journ- journeys journey's eys ey's end Yet every time one of I these carriers carriers carriers car car- of death came halting at the morgue door the tear-eyed tear throng would press about until men of the American Legion were enlisted as guardians to hold the crowd in check Thereafter the waiting people hurried hurried hur hur- ried ned at each new visitation of the hearse to read the growing list of identified dead posted in the lobby of the postoffice near by And out on the hillside almost over the tunnels where lo lot losi t miners now lie dead graves were dug dUr to give them places for their eternal rest A possible seventy-five seventy men of those buried in the No 2 mine of the Utah Fuel company at Castlegate Castlegate Castlegate Castle Castle- gate have a chance of being rescued alive and may be even now waiting 1 1 ji J 1 o nn i. i n T lUlU cuc b to local officials of the company Estimates of the company show that approximately that many men were working near the areas not susceptible sus mis- to ro being readily filled with gas and the probabilities of men escaping escaping es es- es caping from the tl e trap were increased when officials of the company explained explained ex ex- the lay of the ground Although it is not known who the themen themen themen men are or exactly what their their their-num ber bel may be it is reported that hat about forty were working in section C and that a possible thirty-five thirty were at work in or near the part referred to toas toas toas as section B. B Men ely closely identified with the company explained that these two sections are approximately a mile distance from section A from which the the more more than forty bodies were taken taken taken tak tak- en up to a late hour Monday night and that the sections are much higher high high- er than those in which the men are arc being found dead |