| Show IN j scenes in the town and at the mines after the explosion in the doorway or at the gate are the mother and the children seemingly awaiting news deadened by suspense and suffering until they scarcely answer when addressed one of the men while engaged in washing a body in front of mine no 4 was approached by a little boy who asked have you seen my papa yet the man looked up from the mangled and blackened corpse upon which he was working and replied no the body he then had in hand was that of the boys father but the man thought it would be better not to tell the child the truth A woman leading a little girl was passing through one of the charnel houses looking tor the husband and father the child pointed to one corpse a blackened hand of which projected from beneath the white and covering and said mamma theres papa now the mother hastily replied oh no and raised the sheet it was her husbands discolored and disfigured face that she saw and which the child had probably recognized by some peculiarity of the hand jeremiah davis of spanish fork was one of those who had a most thrilling experience in the mines and came out alive he was working well into mine no 1 in company another man when the dust suddenly obscured his partner dails shouted tp the man and in reply the man asked where dails was dails shouted for his partner to follow and rushed toward the entry after running a considerable distance he was overcome and fell forward on his face his face lay in a pool of the poisonous water that was trickling down the entry davis who had become thoroughly exhausted and partially delirious swallowed some of the water it at once caused him to vomit and so far cleansed his system of the deadly gas that he was enabled to reach the pure air outside roderick dails a brother of jeremiah also had a terrible experience he managed to escape from the mine after the explosion and joined one of the rescuing parties he was overcome by the gas and believed to be dead he was thrown into one of the cars with a number of dead bodies and later placed among a row of corpses in one of the dead houses after lying there for a time unconscious be revived and walked out and is now fully recovered five bodies were taken out of field on the special at 7 yesterday morning the bodies were those of john muir george and dan melr sons of george gunder bearnson of richfield and dave allcox of mt pleasant the bodies were placed on the rio grande western through train at colton and transferred at thistle to be sent to the homes of the victims for interment passengers on the train were much interested in the five coffins and also in a young girl 1 apparently not more than 18 years of age who became almost hysterical with grief at sight of the coffins when they were transferred she bad a sufficient excuse certainly for four of coffins contained all her male relatives john melr was her father george and dan her brothers and gunder beam son her husband she had been married only about 3 months over on a back street a mrs tom reilly had been frantically crying tor her husbands body to be brought home and it was impossible to pacify her kindly disposed friends yielded to her wild A coffin was carried into the house containing the body of her late the scene that followed is a pitiful one an hour before the wife gave birth to a child which is now dying the mother is in a precarious condition and her soul Is likely to depart this life and with the little one born to live but a few hours join the husband who had gone before |
