The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-04

aud then several rooms had been
partially caved in. Room Z, in the first
level of No. = tunnel, was caved IN,
and if there are any men in there they
are buried beneath heaps of coal.
Room 10 was caved in. These 1 saw.
Others of the party found more in the
same condition. We went all the way
to the end of the tunnel. and examined
more than half of the. rooms
Bodies In the Tunnel.
Other parties that have been in on
subsequent rescuing expeditions exam
ined farther. and now it is believed
that all bodies in No. exposed above
the debris and timbers have been Sc
cured. How many men may be buried
beneath the piles of coal is not nown.
It is thought, and the officials them
celvee can give no positive informa
ton, that there were ninety men in
! tunnel + the morning of the explosion.
If that is the case, there must be thirty
five bodies yet in the tunnel. For there
have been but fifty-five brought out.
/ Superintendent Sharp and his assist
ant, Williams. do not think that so
many yet remain in the mine. They do
not think that there are more than this
number in both tunnels together.
Strike Among Rescuers.
The work on No. 4 closed down for
time in the morning, and there was
/ something of strike among the res
cuers. Fifteen of them were in at
/ O'Clock. and three of them believed that
/ the leader, Bishop Palmley, was not
taking proper precautions against the
hre-damp left. That broke up the party,
and the others came out.
No party went in last night to this
tunnel and there was. in reality, but
one re9cuing crew at work, that in No.
1. The efforts at No. 4 We're devoted
last night to cleaning away the debris
and timbers from the mouth in, so that
the cars can be used to haul out the
debris and search for those miners who
are buried under heaps of coal. For it
must be understood that the bodies
found in tunnel No. were carried out
on stretches, some of them more than
half mile. over fallen timbers and
piles of coal broken down from the
walls. Though this has been difficult
and tedious work, the miners who sur
vived their comrades have Iabored he
roically. When the work became more
! than they could do from the great dis
lance that it would be necessary to
carry some of the bodies, they were
turned over to parties from No. L
Three bodies were brought out through
this tunnel.
Edwards boarding house, which has
been the receiving place for the bodies
from No. 1, had twenty-six bodies pass
through it today There they were
washed and dressed in new suits of
underelOthing before being sent down
to the Mormon meeting house. The first
lot was brought out in cars, and there
were sixteen men who were blackened,
but most of them had no scars. They
were the victims of the deadly after
damp. Then another lot Of five came out
at about 8 o'clock
Ten In One Family.
There were many about the mouth of
the tunnel awaiting anxiOusly.
There's Adam Hunter and his boy
John" said a miner with tears in his
eyes, that made ten dead in the Hunter
family, and they leave six widows,
some with little children. The bodies
were blackened and burned. Hunters
fingers were crisp. The boys eye was
almost torn out, and the blood had
trickled down over the burned cheek.
Adam Hunter and the little fellow, not
more than Il years of age. were great
companions, and they labOfed together
as miners. They died in each others
arms
There was in that same car Tom Par
IRISH and his son Bob, who likewise
worked together, and Harry Wilson,
one of three Wilson's who are dead. The
father and another son are among those
taken TO St Marks hospital in Salt
Lake.
Then another car came out during
the late afternoon, bringing five more,
VIII and George Clark, Hallowthorn, |
David Ellsworth and an unknown Finn.
All these were cleaned and dressed and
cent down 10 the Mormon meeting
house. The rescue work went on in
No. last night, one crew at a time
Yves in the mine looking for bodies |
while it battled with the after-damp. It
was led by the company inspector, For
roster, who has recovered from his
sickness, brought on through his exer-
tons Tuesday night.
The rescue work has been arranged
in shifts. Six hours will be given to
each nine, and they are being worked
during the whole twenty-four hours of
the day. The rescuing crew working
last night got all the way around into
tunnel No. 4, by the connecting cross
entries. Their progress is slow, because
they drive the after-damp in front of |
them. A few breaths of it incapacitates
a man, and they do not dare get into it. |
CHARLES E. DOWNING.