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Show AWFUL COAL MINE DISASTER. Oyer 260 Miners Killed at Scofleld Tuesday. Eleven Citizens of CoalYille. State Mine Inspector Thomas Says the Company was Negligent. On of the moit dlmleroca exploi-torn exploi-torn that hai ecr occurred In the "United Btatci happmed at 10,25. Tuei-day Tuei-day morning at Scofleld, Utah, tha to-sultol to-sultol which is that250 men lott thelri llvoi. It li even more appalling when the fact li known that but very lew wet unmarried men, and a family of from two to eight children depending entirely upon him lor the necessities tllle. About three o'clock Tuesday niter-noon niter-noon Jamei Stonei ot thli ulsco recelv-d recelv-d a telegram dated at Scofleld which read about ai follows. "We are all 0. I K. Will and George." Thli menage I did not exp'aln itiell, but a lew mlnulci later another telegram wai received by Mm. Wiu. Ruff, from her husband, staling that an explosion had occurred and that ho wa all right. Thli wai the fint new of the horrible affair rerelwd In Coalfllle, and the greatest excitement prevailed In a very i abort time. Other telegrams wero ro- T celvcd from lome who bad eicapedf end Mtf other dlspatuhei told of the death ot I some man whoio home wai here, A great urany men went Irom hero to work at the Scofleld mluei, and nearly all ottbemloit their Uvea. At to the cauieol the calamity, 'here la a great difference of opinion. State Mine Iarpectcr Tbomai makei the following fol-lowing itatement. "Th it accident war caued by the neglect neg-lect ol the Pleasant Valley Coal company. com-pany. 1 do not want to call it criminal negligence, becauiu It Jot not amount to that. Hut there hai teen conilder-able conilder-able cariliiineii. The duet In tuunel No. 4 and in the varioua cron cnlrlis and "roomi" ihould havo bceniprinsl-W bceniprinsl-W ed with water. Had that been dene, n none could bavearlicn to have been Ig- i nllod. The coal In Mo. 4 hai a larger ' per centage ol fixed carbon that In No. 1, and wai, I think, more llablo to be ' Ignited. Contequontly there ihould have been greater precaution taken than In the old property." Kloen bodlei wl'l be brought to Coalville Coal-ville lor burial, the namtiol which are aa follow! : John Jamta and Ueorgo James, hll on Charloa Edwards, Walter Clarlj, AVIlllam Clark, George Albert Clark, aud Wm. Clark, Jr., Samuel I.ltiay, Richard Olxirti, Win. tfllerthorn and David Illlngworlb. Word wb received yciterday liom Samuel Clark that the dead would i arrive thli morning, but later it wai 1 learnedthat they would not arrive till to-night. All ueceiiary preparation! 1 bad been made lor an elaborate funeral to be held In the Stake Tabernacle, but owing lathe bodlei not arriving till late, the luneral will be held to-morrow, full particular! of wblih will be given next eek. A relief fund wai itarted aud up to this morning over ,21,000 had been aubacrlbed for tbe relief of the luffercr. I Messagei of sympathy aud condolence were r'celved from Tim. MoKlnley, Representative King, France, England; and everybody, when they bear the newi, will "tend sympathy. We are unable to give a very extnud-ed extnud-ed write-upof the affair, owing to the many report! which have appeared In tbe dally paperi. There la o much connected with the horrible affair, that It li Imponlble to get anything save the main facti, which we think wo have given above. In looking over the Hit of the dead there are a great many who were at one time midenli of thli place. The whole town extendi Itsjympstby to the bereaved be-reaved onei. |