Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-08-03
FOR SIXTY LIVES.
The Damage Suit Resulting from the
Amy Explosion.
81 100000 Is luE AMOUNT
Asktd for by widow, aud Orphans Of
the Men Killcd-Gencral Con.
ditiOns at AlmJ.

RED CASYoN, Uin,ah County,
wyoming, Aug L. 1926.
hditor DeSeret AsUE
Dear Sir-The claims OF the widows
Of Almy upon the Rosy Mountain
Coal aud lion comraoy Tor damages
arising frsm the late dlsasltr Of the No.
. Red Canyon mine, on the Goth Of
March, 1895, nave been In the
hands Of the ht,orneys-C. ID. CLARK
aud Cyrus Beard Tor the company and
J. &. Hemm, \. A.. Carr, u Evanston,
aud Lacey & Vandsysnler, Of Chey.
enne, Tor the widows, siucs the goth Of
June. IL wa, thought aud generally
believed that these gentlemen would be
able toteach basis Oh which the claims
could be settled without going iutO tue
courts, a. this gentlemen OF both sides
are known 10 bo men n clear views,
great experience ana far reaching "a
thclin Of their pr0lossiau.
But II seems that every effort put
i1fth by sitLpr party has signally
failed TO attain this emo. The httof.
neyE, on behalf OF the widOwF, nave
now MED suit Tor damage. In Tho thifd
district Clutt At Evanttob, Wye, tor
the sum VI twenty thousand dgllats In
each care, amounting IA all TO one
million, two huudfei thOusanl dollars.
The case will 10 laid before the grand
Jury before tho court opens In Ssptem.
Ter, ana | am satisfied that " will be
fought TO the mll extent that evidence
can be got on either side.
have no doubt Ia ms mind but the
widows will get Judgment la their
favor, but feel quite certain the CON.
pRny will take al appeal from tho dis.
uiGt court 10 the supreme court ~
Cheyenne, anu II Ii possible they may
carry their case ~ the Euptome Court
nj Washington; all this will, OF course,
occasion further delay In the settle
msnt anu will likewise entail q con.
sldrfAblB amount Of cX ponss.
The pToyiAiOnnl committee for the
widows ana orphans Of Almy, who
were left uuprovidud for by tho OK po.
sion OF tho e.. y. No. . mine, inform me
that the condition NJ these families IL
not over promising by any means.
Toe entire amount In the relief fund
II not more thEu g., 500 anu the pro-
visions In their store house will not ex.
coed 500, ~ that II food only was re.
CURED, tho money would hold out fOT
some months; but ~ II IL the families
are very badly Oh Tot clothing aud
shoes. The committee said five ute
the money for the clothing u these
families 1t will take about ali we have
Ia the fund. They icol sorry that 90
many OF their Kind sympaIhiEiug
irleujh should have sent their money
donations 10 private friends instead Of
u tne bank, as all were notified 10 do.
Had thIs been done, say they, We
could have UTdere from the merchal /,
the class VI goods the families fequifeI,
but instead Of this tho goods have
been sent to.sg anu charged TO US that
were not suitable 10 these families
under present circumstances.
The COMMITTEES consider themselves
under great obligation TO all persons
VINO have 80 generously aided them by
their liberal donations TO meet the 10.
quifomonts OF ~ many destitute per-
s9ns Tor the past four months, aud they
icol anxious that the same humane