| Show II i 95 5 Dead 3 Missing in Kemmerer EXACT CAUSE OF EXPLOSION STill MYSTERY I I Grief Grief T h r on o n gl g Sees Charred Bodies i Brought Forth I MINE NOT DAMAGED Childrens Children's Wails Mingle I With Heart Breaking Heart Cries of Watchers lyo ro ug ne UG 15 Eight Eight more bodies were brought In from Frontier at nt 1240 I bringing the tho number o otHo U e OO c rc recovered to pt 95 All AU of ot these bodies bodles cr were ere badly burned and were cre taken Immediately hume to the temper temper- temporary or- or ary arr morgue at I 0 0 V r 1 hall I c KEMMERER W WO o Aug IS ISBy 15 By The Associated Press re I ed figures announced shortly before 11 II o'clock this thia morning by Officials of ot the Kemmerer Coal Coni company revealed that 8 87 bodies had been romo removed ed from the cont- cont com company's pany's No 1 mine at nt where an explosion occurred early Tuesday ele eleven chosen en men are still In Inthe Inthe Inthe the workings all believed to be dead according to the revised re tl fig fig- figur t s urb ur s 31 U RESCUED Thirty four miners were rescue alive from the mine Tuesday No official statement ha has hos been Issued by the tha company as to the reason for tor the disaster Rescue crews worked throughout the night In their efforts to reach the other bodies nd id d will not re N relax lax until all have hao ha 0 deen reco Cre officials said aye ave ave Vice President J 3 D ha believed belle ed the bodies of ot Ve ii still entombed would be bo ta e et within a tow few hours 2nd SIRI R CITY crry IN Kemmerer and the the-i the One bIll coal settlement of ot Fr Fro l 2 l mournIng today a went wont forward tor for th shell jelI rim giac 1138 dead A general 1 j street car probably will be i I d tim tims O At t Ct Co and others left letl Ph miners miner were st to re o d W de c suddenness of ot took away awny y Vao-y tho F RUG CLI them pet dyeing e 0 cSome Some of ot thel theland the and fluff nutt n and tearfully y- y E CL edy There w Joor Work Frontier tha and Mattres S 10 some way 1320 1320 K I Van V n Kampen K nip n cAVI rf Itol t Three yo kind s of scavenger vee W e or woe n would not gl a John lP W Co 34 who who started thon fhone 81 s tit company In rf tl CO rubb rub un 2725 Greet Grant Pono pon on ono one of th few minutes minutes- r occurred repaired nd ed They said our OUT work Oed Ogden ell Mon L and then a IL r ru hone on on which the tho not flooded w If gases and S t waited from when the p m when rescue workers reached them The youths showed no Iii Ill effects effects Throughout the hours houra of ot dark darkness ness as arc lights shed IL a a pallid ii- ii Il 11 Illumination over a weeping grief grief- stricken throng a at the porta portal othe o otho tho the mine rescue workers brought forth the tho charred blast-charred bodies bodles ot of the tho victims who suffocated and I died as they sought safety lately from poisonous gases Thirty seven men meD entombed by bythe bythe bythe I the blast have emerged from the mine alive Of Ot these one lies 1105 at a hospital here In a serious condl condi condition tion as a Q result of ot the tho Inhalation ot of smoke and gas fumes It is 16 I believed he wilt will recover BLAST ST IS MYSTERY Tho The Tho exact cause causa of ot the blast reo re remained I a a mystery early today al although though officials of ot the Coal company company In in a statement Is- Is Issued Is ii Issued sued late into Tuesday declared out blown a out blown shot was responsible for the detonation Another the the or ory Is that a careening trip i icar car Jumping from the track on foot 1700 level ex cx occurred and cau caused ed a 1 which Ignited a II cloud of ot dust 4 sas gaa I Disastrous as u was the loss ol oi I 1 Continued OB OR rte race Two 3 1 STORM DEBRIS YIELDS BODIES Continued d from Page On One South Eighth Wt Vest street Salt Lake Loke IDENTIFICATION The difficulty of Identifying any of the th bodies recovered was Illus mus- illustrated Illustrated yesterday when George Jackson Jockson visited t Sho lh o morgue at Farmington and after viewing the bO bodies that had been boen washed up by the th und and were w r being sewed wed up told Edward A Cottrell of Farmington ono one on of the search search- ere era n that ho he h could not be b certain if f ono one on of the th bodies bodle Will was that of his hie hi sOn eon On or the th ton Lane boy boy Ho Ue explained to Mr Cottrell that he had taken the boys four tour of them to the th canyon Sunday night for a a camping trip and that while he had Intended to take them back bacle to Salt Lake Loke the tha following day when ho he himself returned they had pre re pr upon him to allow them thorn td t remain another nIght ht nODY BODY IS FOUND POUND The body of a a man with light complexion was wall found yesterday at- at af afternoon buried burled In the debris near the Bamberger tracks and near v n here the th horrifying discovery was made of the th limbs of Mrs Wright The report soon Boon oon spread cad that the body of Mr Wright had been re- re recovered recovered re recovered covered but this proved to bo be false when It became known that Mr Wright was wa of dark complexion with dark curly hair Mr and Mrs Mr Joseph JOsoph Udy of ton renters renter of the th homo home of Orson Hyde Hydo two rooms of whIch were carried away when the raging wall of water at struck ruck the building escaped by running out of the he house to to the th higher ground round The home Is I thelast the th last lait brick house hou on the tho rIght tide side of the th highway vay of ono one approaching the th Incline of over the th Bamberger from the tho th south HUGE BOULDERS WASHED The Tha transporting power of the hater ater was Illustrated ot at that point to the tho thousands thousand of persons that visited the tho th scene In practically all day yes yes- yes ys when they saw huge hu e boul boul- boulders boulder der ders alongside of ot the roadway some of which would gh gh at le lest least st a 0 ton aton of the th boulders measured more mora than three feet tet In diameter Sheriff R D who re- re returned returned re returned turned from tho the keno ene last night and who spent the th greater creator part of oC esterday with his deputies ln In the th fArch tor the mIssing described de- de scribed the th area co covered ered by th the flood this morning He Ho said ald that above the tho Hyde home and extending to the mouth of Farmington canyon the th flood covered an area areo of about 40 yards In width Persons that were In the vicinity of the mouth of the th canyon can can- canyon can canyon yon told Deputy Sheriff Horace Horac Von Van Pleat of Davis county that the tho wall of water WIlter rush rig g out of the canyon was at I least st 30 feet et In height and that the tho th grinding roar of the tor- tor torrent torrent tor torrent rent was deafening Immediately after r passing 0 over er erthe the state tato highway the tho flood waters spread prad out over an area area delta delte inform In Inform Inform form Sheriff said and hundreds of toot foot In width The Tho debris In fn places paces he h said was four to five feet In depth Ho lIe pointed out that this thia made the th work or of ortho tho searching parties extremely dif dlf- difficult dif difficult I It SPERRY BOOKKEEPER Walter J Wright husband of Mrs Wealthy Clark dark Wright whole who le Is missing Is a e son of the late Joseph and Mrs Wright of oC Ogden and was wa employed as a a bookkeeper at the th Sperry Flour mill With the tho of three years year spent pent In HawaII Mr Wright has been b n a SL reel resl real dent dent t of Ogden Orden His wife Mrs dark Clark Writ Wright was 11 daughter cot o Edward B D dark Clark and r Mrs Wealthy Richards car 13 Clark ar u She Sh was born October 31 Hit 1898 at ot Farmington here abate r sh she passed the early part of her hr 3 She 1 wa wai as a graduate of the tho Relief society nurses corps and practiced nursing for tor a 0 number of years year De- De Deceased Deceased D ceased also alio filled a mission to the Hawaiian Islands for the th L D S church and while there met Mr MI ht When they returned home they were married October 26 25 IOU 1932 Sho Is survived by her parents and by tho the following brothers brother and I sisters Edward S Clark Mary i Clark both of reon R Clark of Salt lAke Lak Rutson W Clark of Ephraim an Instructor lit at atthe atthe the thc Snow IlY academy there SALT LAKE CITY Utah Aug 15 Ruin 15 Ruin Ruin and ond desolation today marked the th path of the flood I which Sl swept ept over thousands thousand of acres of land In tho the fertile valleys I of northern Utah Monday nl night when tho the flood rates gates of the th alti- alti altitudinal WAsatch range loosed Brat torrents torrent down upon the nu- nu numerous flu nu-merou nu farm tarm settlements and com com- communities com com- communities communities nestling along alone tho the border of the tho Ton persons here cre known to have perished and the tho towns of ot Farm Farm- FarmIngton Farmington Ington and Willard sere Hero partially devastated the total property damage ac- ac according according ac according cording to estimates Search for tor nearly a score of per por- per persons sons eons reported missing misting since the flood struck was continued today b by national guardsmen ordered to duty In the th area are to re- re relieve r lieve suffering and give rivo aid to the many flood victims victim At Willard last night the guardsmen started digging Into great heaps of deprie dl believing that more moro doad dead might be found burled buried there Tho The rescue workers encountered e and ond mire nearly 30 feet deep dep along tho the wide tilde Ide expanse of farm lands north and south couth of the I little town lay strewn for miles the wreckage r of hundreds hundred of farm buildings Huge Hur boulders some the tho thi size elze siz of small houses housed are arc littered over northern highways An area two miles wide at Farmington Is covered to a 0 depth of nearly 20 feet deep with trees and wreck wreck- wreckage wreck wreck-aro age In one on place pl c 75 telephone poles pole were counted In one heap RAILROADS nt REPAIRED Rafts Rall Rallay ay transportation seriously hampered by was near near- nearIng nearing marine Ing ine normal today and communication tion has haa ha be boon on completed to most points which 1 were Isolated during th flood floods Wire system also Iso were wore being being- rapidly re- re re repaired paired Highways between een Salt Snit Lako Lake and Ogden and ond between Brigham and Ogden were Imp sable today hun hun- hundreds hundreds hun of uprooted trees s and huge hug boulder boulders rolled along from the mountains In the tho mad rush of the waters rocky canyons canons ob- ob obstructing obstructing ob the roads Governor Mabey last night Is- Is Issued issued Is Issued sued a calling on the people of the th state to give their I aid to the th hundreds of homeless inthe in inthe Inthe the flooded area Tho The chief Uvo Live with Adjutant General Will Will- Williams iams lame went to Willard yesterday to take charge charr of the critical situa situa- situation situation tion there ther MAY Y BE BC BURIED Authorities who had hod surveyed the stricken area ara today declared they belle believed cd some som of the tho missing persons may never ease be b found e- e es pressIng the th belief that some some som lost their lives and probably were burled under the great hulks of dd n Observers were wor watching the th Great Salt Lake Lak today Into which many of the th mountain streams flow low bo be bo lieving some ome of the th bodies may be bes s Into It Rescue workers worker at Willard were spurred on today following reports from turners farmers In the vicinity that Re eral automobiles automobile last seen on highways byth bythe had been ben swept wept away by the torrents One On farmer told the th story tory of hearing the th roar of ot the onrushing foot foot 30 wall of water near and then of seeing an automobile loaded with persons cn inthe In Inthe the water and carried swiftlY away to what Inevitable doom I Three boys boy who late lato lat Monday neat ent to FarmIngton canyon from where the of the flood floodwaters floodwater waters was wae w the greatest had not been heard from today They are arB to have havo been drowned somewhere In the th canyon Two men also alio wore reported to have been swept wept away by the th waters at Willard mard but their bodies have not been bean recovered The Th bodies bodle of the victims so far recovered were ere terribly mangled ono one body being decapitated Near Kear Moth Moab iUta lUtah where wh r the tho theay floods s were not so o ev ro roads wc ere flooded a and nd many bridges were washed a as away ay In Salt Laka Oily eC City streets ets In the tho northern a sec sec- section cc tion ono were wr seer flooded od fad to I a a depth of ere se e eral nr feet teet but today only the t loam was 08 left felt as evidence of the storm Damage howe however er to tele- tele telephone telephone lc tele e- e ephone phone phon and wires wire was WIlS wa es- es estimated es estimated at ot nearly The Th flood was wa the th greatest In Inthe inthe the history of Utah according to authorities Not since 1903 1803 when the local ocal weather bureau started to record precipitation In the th state has there been a heavier rain fall than that which fell Monday londay night and early Tuesday officials said The precipitation recorded was Inches |
