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

near the express office at the sound
furtively wiped his eyes with the back
of his grimy hand and then turned his
face away and tried to hide his emo
ton. while overhead the stars and
stripes at half-mast fiOated over the
scene.
When the train came to a standstill,
the sliding doors OF the draped bag
gage car were drawn back and
glimpse of tier upon tier of oblong
cases was displayed to view. Stacked
one above the other were the plain
outer cases containing the bodies of
the breadwinnerS who had met such
fearful deaths while engaged in their
daily avocations. Each coffin was COW
cred with the now withered flowers
that had been sent by loving hands
from Salt Lake the day before, while
upon the ends were tackled the strips
of yellow paper which gave the names
of the dead and the signed death GER
tihcate.
Tenderly the caskets were removed
one by one to the waiting undertakers'
vehicles and a large furniture van
which had been chartered for the oc-
casion. until there were eight bodies
in all removed. First in order came
the remains Of the three Wilson boys
Willie. James and Alexander. Then
followed the bodies of the three Ital-
ians-Nicola AnselnO, Joseph Mayo
and G.. Femari-whO were brought to
this city at the request of their
friends. The corpse Of Chris Johnson,
who leaves in this city a wife and lit
tie son to mourn his loss, was the last
of the remains to be removed.
The train stayed only few minutes
/ longer and then proceeded on its way
north with the burden Of twenty-one
victims and some seventy-five rela-
/ tives of the deceased.
/ Prior to departing, however, the
! floral offerings on the collins were re-
! plenished to the extent Of two wagon
/ loads Of flowers, the gift of the school,
! children in this CITY.
Among those who accompanied the
train on its sad journey was j. A
| LAMBERT of Ogden. who is a member
( Of the Hunter family, which has lOst
ten Of it's members in the awful acci
dent In course of brief converse
ton. ne said: There are nine OF oul
family on this train who met thei1
death in the mine; the other yet lle'
buried in the debris down there. Nj
God, it is awful No tongue or pei
can depict the horror Of the situation
down there. I have been through TIL
entire war of the rebellion, but l cal
tel you that it was nothing like VIVA
it is down at Scofield, from the fac
that the women were not present Of
the battle field. Whole families ar
wiped out. and the women do nothing
but shrek and wiring their hands da-
and night. There are pitiful sight
and cases there which would stir tn
hearts of the most callous. Take on
| case for instance-that of a Mrs. VII
liams, who came from Tennessee wit
her husband and a family of seve
children a few days before rAe explo
sion. Her husband went 10 work l
| the mine and the next day he met hi
death there. In the little cabin where
in she and her family are living Their
is not a pane of glass in the window
and not a stick of furniture nor per
nv to buy crust of bread in the hOus
She is left absolutely destitute, hur
dreds of miles away from home an
entirely dependent upon the charity {
strangers for her means of subsisi
ence. oh, it is awful. and l cOul
enumerate others nearly as bad.
S. T. Ricketts,, the assistant TO u
dertaker S. d. Evans, told the san
story after he alighted from the trai
He said that were it not for the bounl
of the people Of Utah that there. wou
be a famine staring the people Of Sc
field in the face, for the women to Il
last were not ia condition to do az