The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-05
FUNERAL OF VICTIMS
WILL BE HELD TODAY
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Cemns For the Dead.
Undertaken Evans. in charge Of all
arrangements for the immediate care
Of the dead, has 247 collins tonight
They are here awaiting TO be filed with
victims Of the explosion and from the
number of bodies that yesterday after
noon lay about the school house a
casual glance indicated that they
would all be occupied. At ) O'Clock
this afternoon Mr.. Evans said ne had
22S collins filled with victims. Just at
that moment he was experimenting the
unloading Of nine more from a Oox car
that had been drawn up in front of the
charDeI house that was once the happy
meeting place Of the little tots Of this
mountain coal camp
''This viii make. 237 collins" said he,
after figuring for d moment on a
piece OF pasteboard in his hand Il
think that will be enough, with four or
i've over. But up at Edwards board
ing house there were two victims.
Leander Kleomala and Alfred Warrilla,
Firms. who had been brought out Of
No. 1 at about o. m. There was an
other Finn. Elias Hulitala, at the
meeting house ready to be placed in a
coffin. There, however, was no coffin.
There is yet anOther-GeOrge Langstaff,
the Provo man who had been recovered
from tunnel No during the after
noon. too late for shipment on the
funeral special to his house. His body
was taken down to the school house.
Thus Mr.. Evans had occupants for
four more Of his collins, showing that
there We're according to h 5 own
figures, 232 collins containing bodies
The others are TO be accounted for in
the many bodies which lay on the floor
of the school house. Eight more collins
arrived on the special from Salt Lake
at s. o'clock this evening. Thus, adding
these to the figure, 2S7. given by Mr..
Evans at o'clock, there are here to-
night 247 collins, less. of course, the
sixty sent away on the funeral train
this morning, and the eight buried here
during ne afternoon. It is presumed
that these 247 collins have arrived at
Scodeld on the order Of the Pleasant
Valley officials here. and that the or
ders were based on their knowledge Of
the number of victims.
Tilt in the Mine
Another circumstance which indicates
an attempt to beIittle the enormity of
this tragedy was the tilt between State
Mine Inspector Conner Thomas and As
sistant Superintendent H. G. Williams
this morning when they met on Pixies
Peak in tunnel No. 4. The account is
as given by one Of Mr.. Thomas res
cuing party, Harry Wilson of Sunny
side, who, with several others, quit his
work to come to the rescue work. was
unable to see Mr.. Thomas this evening
to ask him about the statement of Will
son.
I'VE We're in there with Mr.. Thomas,
four Of us" said Wilson, and we were
hunting for bodies near Pixies Peak
Mr.. Thomas started to go into one of
the rooms where he thought a body
might be found Mr. Williams barred
the way.
Where are you going?' asked the
assistant superintendent.
- am going in this room to look
for men,, said Mr.. Thomas.
You can't go in s$td Mr.. Will
liams
Wei, am going in replied Mr..
Thomas. I have authority, as Utah in
spector, to go anywhere in this mine,
without asking leave of any one
Well, you'll go without lights, was
the answer.
Mr.. Williams, I am going in there,
and if any injury happens want you to
understand that the Pleasant Valley
company viii be responsible for it,
said the Inspector. and then we went in.
After digging about for some time we
recovered the body Of a man that was
almost lost in the cave-in that the ex-
plosion had caused. think that il vas
beginning to decompose. We brought it
out"
It is believed that Mr.. Williams does
not like the way in which Mr.. Thomas
has been going into every nook and cor
ner Of the mine since the disaster. SU-
perintendent Sharp is not considered by
those who have discussed this apparent
effort to conceal the number of dead as
being willing party to it. 1t is thought
that he is misled by employees under
him. All his estimates are based on the
figures given to him by his employees.
lie has said to The Herald staff many
times that he would do all in his power
TO throw light on the explosion. But
he has been 50 Frustrated by the enor-
nifty of the thing that he has not been
able to talk clearly about it, nor to so
into a connected and detailed explana-
Iion Of the affair.
CHARLES E. DOWNING.