The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-22
rs A HORRIBLE STORY
More Than Sixty Miners PeriShed Near
Evanston, WyO.
HEART RENDlNG SCENES
Nearly All the Poor Victims We're
Married Men-Their Wives and
Children Gather Around the
Mouth of the Death Pit.

EVANSTON, Wyo., March 2f.-It is now
figured out from the company's lists and
pay rolls that 81 men were imprisoned in
the mine disaster at Red Canyon, Wyo.,
yesterday evening. Seven were killed on
the outside whose names have been given.
The bodies of the following have been re-
covered:
William Brown, Baptiste Julian, James
Limb and Angel Dermodi, all married
and leaving big families, and two boys,
William Grieves, and a son of j. X. Stay.
The following married men with large
families are at this writing known to be
in the mine:
Henry Burton, Samuel Holster, George
Hardy, David Lloyd, William Sellers. Sr.,
William Langdon, Sr.. Thomas Hutchin-
ser, Samuel Bates, Walter Miller, Henry
Scothren, Aaron Butt, George Critchel,
Hugh Sloan and William Morris, ard the
following young men: John Morris, Will
liam Graham, Jr., Marshall Langdon,
George Hymes, John &. Locke, Albert
Clark and David Lowry, Jr.
The greater part of the men who per-
ished are covered with debris at the sew
enth level. where they were gathered
awaiting the man trip. Work is being
pushed with all possible speed TO recover
the dead. There is no fire in the mine.
The books of the Rocky Mountain Coal
and Iron company reveal the fact that SO
men were killed in the Red Canyon
disaster last evening. Nineteen bodies
have been recovered and 40 lie ut the
bottom OF No. level A large force of
men are at work removing the debris.
Fifty of the victims were married, and
leave as many widows and 800 orphaned
children. The following are dead in ad-
dition to those named in previous dis
patches:
Fred Morgan. John T. Clark, James f.
Clark. John G.. Martin, Matt Johnson, ii.
a. Hyborn. William Pope, John Wilkes,
Charles Kazola, Gus Kazola, William
Weedup, James Hutchinson, John The
hey, John Lester, William Wagstaf,
Charles Clark, James Hyden, John Lehti,
Matt Silta, Samuel Hutchinson, Thomas
Booth, Ben Coles, John Dexter, Isaac
Johnson, John Lapar and John Fearn.
About 80 were members of the A. o. L.
W., and carry $1,000 insurance each.
The total number now known to have
persisted in the mine disaster at Red
Canon yesterday evening is 60, of which
81 are married men and nine young men
and boys. Up to this hour the following
bodies out of a total of SO who met their
death In the mine. nave Deen recovered
and turned over to relatives:
Albert Clark, John Morris, David Laurie,
George Hyde, John G. Locke, w. H..
Grieves and Samuel Clay, single, and
Samuel Hutchinson, William Morris,
Thomas Booth, Charles Clark, Willard
Brown, James Limb and Fred Morgan, all
men of large families.
This leaves 80 unrecovered bodies in
the mine. The timbering has been
largely blown out and the walls and roof
of the whole interior are cracked and
shattered so that the volunteer searching
party of Is now seeking the bodies of
their comrades are every moment in dam
ger of being buried.
A coroner's jury has been empanelled
and will view the remains as brought to
the surface and turn them over to their
relatives.
The agonizing screams of the widows
and children about the mouth of the mine
beggar description. The mules that were
in the mine are SO burned that they have
to be removed on account of the odor be-
fore the work can proceed.