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Show H SW BEFORE DIG OF 11 FIRE GASES Bingham, Utah, Jan. 26. Gauntly eloquent of days without food, 3peut in a struggle to avoid death, from asphyxiation, the bodies of Matt Vu- kelic and George Adzla were taken from the Boston Consolidated mine this afternoon nt 3:30 o'clock. The fact that the bodies were yet in a good state of preservation was taken as evidence that the men must have lived for several days after being be-ing shut In by the fire within the mine. The abdomen of each body was. found collapsed, showing that the men must have lived long enough to J know the pangs of hunger before death stilled the gnawing in their vitals. Added to hunger and possibly thirst was the torture, perhaps of remaining awake for fear of inhaling the deadly carbon monoxide that lay everywhere on the floor of the mine workings. The bodies were found in the main tunnel of the sub-eight workings and within a short distance of where the rescuers wearing tho helmets must have penotrated. They were nearly 4000 feet from the surface. On the 'final trin into the workings the rescuers wearing the oxygen helmets hel-mets went In nearly 3500 feet. It is believed that at this time the men were either dead or so weak that their calls for help could not be heard by the rescuing party. The recov-ery recov-ery of the bodies today was effected without the use of helmets. The bodies were loaded on a car and hauled to the surface of the ground, the holes opening into ore chutes between the rails of the track making it impracticable for the rescuers res-cuers to carry the dead, for fear of accident to the carriers. Friends and relatives of the dead men clustered clus-tered about the portal of the tunnel as the bodies were carried out. Among them, too, were relatives of the three men who died last week In an effort to rescue the two entombed miners at a time when there was yet hope that they had not perished. It Is believed now that the men followed fol-lowed the good air back farther into the mine as they were crowded by the poisonouB gas from the fire In the main shaft, thus going all the time farther from the possibility of rescue. Tho position of the bodies was considerably farther in the mine than the place where the miners were known to be at work shortly before the fire became a menace. The bodies' were brought down from the mine tonight and are at O'Donnell & Co.'s undertaking rooms, where they are belpg prepared for burial, which will be in Salt Lake. Austrlans by nativity, the two men had been. Hying in the United States for nearly a dozen years. For half as many years both had been employed em-ployed as miners in Bingham. Vu-kellc Vu-kellc is survived by a widow living In Austria and a brother living in Bingham. Bing-ham. Adzla, who was unmarried, has an uncle, Nick Padgane living in Bingham, Bing-ham, and another uncle, Matt Padgane, Pad-gane, living in Salt Lake. |