| Show twenty five years agol ago from the files of the park record of july 1902 tuesday nitwit night last july the tha in most t i spelling disaster disa ster in the history of park illy city occurred v when abe the powder P ader magazine on the 1200 0 1 level 1 of the daly west and irom from the deadly gases exploded summoned e thirty tour brave men were without warning to the great grea t beyond 1120 the accident occurred about but it was nearly 2 a in before the news new ot of the terrible affair ireae reached he the ilie 0 city t then rhen the alarm was immediately sounded ou dd by the bl blowing ow ing 0 of the fire whistle and ty by e very every other the whole short time means and in A men and wom women aroused td camp we ws aad streets tr in knots on t the gathered hundreds un dwelling lights burned in every hurried with all 1111 speed to the daly ontario arid and many reached and west volunteer tor for t the he first i there in time to rescue cage that descended brave noble men there were in plenty crowding around the shaft ready soon their lives in the end and anxious to risk the deadly gas any irom from effort to save noble efforts are all the results of these lamentable none ot of the men sought too were recovered alive while four made the effort of the noble heros beros who themselves afterwards malsed rigid were silent monuments enis of glorious manhood corpses sacrificed on the altar of humanity and brotherly love scores of others there were no less brave and noble b but u t who thank providence are silent heros are still living the four johnnie johnnee act caughlin Aug hlin ln richard dillon john and george richardson that the living ones are so numerous they v finot be enumerated the explosion occurred about 1120 p the cause will never be known though m the supposition Is tha that tJohn john burgio the powder monkey either dropped his candle or cigarette la in the magazine when he visited tt it to load up with powder to distribute throughout the mine the first intimation of the accident received on top at the tha daly west was by shift boss mike hennessey Hean essey who heard beard the smothered repert and by engineer chet barker who felt a tremor in his engine while hoisting empty cars from the mr barker stopped his engine looked it 1 over carefully and finding nothing wrong brought the cage to the top As the tori top of the cage came into sight mr hennessey called to the engineer to stop as he had noticed a piece of the diso aged guide sticking in the cage at this moment the engineer received the signal tor for the cage to be sent to the goo by station tender rooker the latter was brought to the top and told hennessey that an explosion had taken place below the latter summoned mr worthington and with rooker was let down to the 1200 here they called out but received no answer the gas at this point was very bad so they were lowered to the 1400 everything appeared clear there so they returned to the here they found the men eating their supper the three again went to the 1400 where rooker was overcome with gas and was immediately sent on oil top going to the again hennessey ordered all the men to get ready and go on top taking another man to fill the place of rooker hennessey and worthington again dropped to the 1400 where the latter was wa of sent into the drift here the body ot elias nelson was found he was dead and his c lothes clothes were on fire the body was immediately taken to the where a stop was made to allow the men to get on the cag cage e while here hennessey called tor for volunteers vol u steers to go down dovon the raise behind where re the explosion occurred on the 1400 to notify the men to come up for this service richard onion dillon R P statz and W harlan quickly volunteered and ana started down I 1 from this time on volunteers went down as last fast as the cage could uld be raised and lowered foreman J john obo a nimmo went to the 1400 2400 where he remained for more than an hour directing d jr ting the men who were bringing out the dead both from the east cast and west vest side of the shaft on the cars to be hoisted to the top with every cage of the dead some one of the rescuers was sent up overpowered over powered by the gas about F 6 foreman kimmo refused to let the cage go down again although men begged and pleaded with him to let them down for cormie dan Ga gallovan lIlvan offered to lead the party to where mclaughlin lay and said he be knew he could rescue him alive as well as two others other s extrom and richardson very boo soon n eight sturdy volunteers were on the c cage age but mr MP NIMMO had bad come to the conclusion that it was a helpless task that none down there r could 0 o uld tie be alive and he was endangering lives to seek further so the cage remained on top the list ol of the dead at the daly west are jolla john burgle midway utah W A I 1 salt lake james moraln richard aillon dallon park city peter haron scranton pa christopher mcalinden patrick onell oneil john mclaughlin ln park city thomas A kelly anaconda mont ray jakeman provo T B tindall lead ville valle colo john featherstone salt lake john J GUI gill bridgeport conn wm win laner john devlin henry devlin sohn john maloney mike cowley park city wm simms reber heber john mcauliffe north dakota john lively chris cullen cullan mike conlon park city john eckstrom peterson Pc terson utah thomas mckowen north greenfield WIs geo richardson john carney camey ellas elias nelson park city at the ontario the dead were george garvin park city wm Zw eitel midway steven baratta park city chris P salt lake wade glodoske park city charles michigan aw 00 0 misses jessie e and alice harper and master tom harper came up from salt lake on a visit with relatives 10 aw 4 i the school election last monday passed d off qui tely votes being cast P B R da davis L Is lor for reelection election re had no opposition S L and john delm deim were candidates from the second ward mr received votes mr delta delm 64 54 for county superintendent ol of schools W M boyden of Co coalville alville was wag elected L E hubbard C T frisk and P F M acted as ar tellers |
