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Show RECOVERING THE BODIES Of DEAD m i Many of the Victims of the Devil's Slide Explosion Arc Supposed to be Buried Under the Thousands of Tons of Rock Dislodged Dis-lodged by the Premature Blast. ooooooooooccooooo o o O THE DEAD. O O O O HUGH McGL'IRE. O O GEO. CATOLONI. O O B. CATOLONI. O O FRANK CONEY. O O S. D. BF.RNUARDO. O O L NOKOVICH. O O F. X. GYNKVCK. O O M. Gl'ESSEPPE. O O n CAMBALOLO. O O F. BERGOVIC. O O P. STO.IIVIC. O O P. SKEUVIC. O O A. ISHII. O O F. NAKAMURI. O j O M. SOU AR. o; O B. KRAMOV1C. O O A. PETRESS. ' O o o coooooooooococooo The above Is the official list of tho dead and missing given to a representative rep-resentative of this paper at Devil's Slide lat yesterday afternoon by Manager Man-ager Gllson of tho Union Portland Cement Ce-ment company. All but two of the victims aro entombed In a tunnel over which there are seeral hundred thousand tons of rock. The seventeen seven-teen aro tho victims of the explosion of about si hundred kegs of powder In a tunnel at tie rock quarry yesterday yester-day morning, at 0 o'clock. Immediately following the explosion, explos-ion, Manager Gllson set all the available avail-able rock and quarry men to work In repairing the track and making ready for running the steam shovel to a point near the tunnel for the removal of tho rock In an effort to recover the lodles of the fifteen victims supposed to he lying In the tunnel. Throughout Through-out the night and all of today two crews of men worked diligently to recover re-cover the bodies of fellow workmen whose lives were snuffed out In an instant. in-stant. Up to a late hour this afternoon no reports of any bodies being recovered recov-ered had been received at the general offices of the Unlou Portland Cement company In Ogden. Preparations have been made for caring for 1 hr? hodies of the victim by the undertaker of Morgan county. The cause of the explosion which dealt death to about a score of men Is unknown and there la little likelihood like-lihood that there ever will be any-thlnj any-thlnj known as to how the great explosion ex-plosion was caused. One theory advanced ad-vanced by an employe of the company Is that the electric light globe which was used In the tunnel exploded and fragments of the glass struck powder pow-der and Ignited It. Another theory Is that scmo steel Instrument, such as a pick or a hammer used In tamping tamp-ing powder, caused the explosion. Another theorj Is that the men work ing In the tuunel with the powder wore heavy shoes with hol.nail In them and in walking back and forth stepped on powder and caused It to Ignite. In speaking of the explosion, an employe of the company described It as follows: "Tbe tunnel was about three feet t high aj)d two feet wide and sixty foot long. At the end of the sixty feet two small drifts went off which lead to packets In which the powder is placed for the firing of a shut. Most of the men were back in the tunnel passing tho powder from one to the other and then to Foreman McGulre who would open the caus and empty it Into the pockets. When the explosion explos-ion occurred a Japanese and an Italian Ital-ian were- working at the mouth of I tho tunnel taking the powder from the small car upon which It had leen carried to tho lunncl from the powder house. The bodies of the Jap and the Italian were hurled about eight hundred fet. An arm of one of the victims was found In the railroad cut of the Union Pacific track about a thousand feet from the tunnel's mouth, whllo another portion of a body was found down the canyon, lodged In a tree " Tho bodies recovered, as In all explosions, ex-plosions, aro totally nude. Shoes and clothing were removed entirely. In picking up a portion cf one of the bodies bod-ies It was found that there was a piec? of a vest pocket and In this waa found pieces of a time check which was almost al-most torn Into Mts. The top of the skull of the Japanese was found with other pieces of the body In tho flat at the foot of the mountain side. Rocks weighing from fifty to a hundred hun-dred pounds were burled a distance of more than a thousand feet. The general office cf the company, about four hundred feet from the tunnel, waa In a rain of rock and dust and many pieces of sharp edged rock rent big holes In the side of the building. Nearly all the buildings bad windows broken. All of the victims, as near as could be learned, wre unmarried hut many of them had people dependent upon them. Foreman McGuire's mother, Mrs Anna McGuire, resides at Dlng-hani Dlng-hani can on. where McGulre was formerly for-merly employed as powder boss for the Utah Copper company. The ill-fated ill-fated man waa 25 years of age, and, although young In years, was old In experience as a powder man. . Upon being advised of the disaster. Justice of the Peace Wilde of Morgan county empanelled a coroner's Jury composed of W. H Toone, George Thackery and James Hopkins. The scene of the explosion was visited yesterday afternoon. When tho bod-lea bod-lea of the men are removed from tho (Continued on Page Seven) |
