The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-07
Especial TO The Herald from a staff
Correspondent

Especial TO The Herald from a staff
Correspondent
Sc9feld. May G.-This has been the
field Not in a score Of years before
has a Sunday transpired that could be
distinguished from any other day by
the general appearance of the town.
On former worshiDing days the mines
were in operation and 400 men were al
work. The stores were doing business
and the women-this the saddest con-
trast Of all-were busy about the
houses. preparing the evening meal for
their bread-winners.
All is different today. Except for
the heroes who seek their entombed
fellows night and day, the scene OF
carnage underground is deserted.
There are no longer happy and con-
tented wives in the humble homes OF
the miners, and the sight of children
running up the track TO meet their
fathers coming home from work is
gone.
From early morn till night this has
been a day of prayer, with solemn
funeral obsequies and more buriais,
and the same scenes Of yesterday, but
fewer in number, were enacted in the
burdened cemetery. The bodies laid to
rest this morning were those Of Thorn
as Webber. Erick Kleima, Alex Helix
kia, Maknus Niemi, the two Powell
brothers, William PaUgh and George
i. Wilson, Paugh's sOn-in-law.
A Shocking Incident.
In the afternoon the remains of Web
Der were eXhumed, and one OF the
most terrible stories att ches to the
incident WebbeT'S remains were not
identified among those that have come
out OF the mine, though they were be
heved to have been Identified several
times his frantic wife looked every
hour for the body TO arrive. On Friday
no word reached her, and in desOera-
tiOn she went into the charnal houses
to see for herself. One mangled form
she gazed on was like her husband in
size, and she finally identified him and
the body was prepared for burial at the
widows home; but she subsequently
found that she had been mistaken.
The body was taken back to the school
house and marked Unknown. An
other day Of search and inquiry, and
still the body Of Weber was not
found. This morning another body was
brought and carried down in a sack.
There was no possibility Of the body
being identified, the authorities said,
and being prepared at once, it was
put in a grave and the head board
marked Unknown"
Meanwhile the widow had received
word Of the arrival of a body from the
mine, and she traced it TO its grave,
with her two brothers, who have come
in from a distance She demanded that
the casket be uncovered and hands
went at once to work, although there
were DrOtestatiOns that the remains
were in such shape that Identification
was impossible. When the lid of the
coffin was raised, and that widow
looked at a mass Of flesh and bone, the
fore part Of the skull being crushed
in, and the hair ard mustache being
burned off, there was a scene that
will linger in my memory longer than
any. She screamed, uttered an unin-
teliigible cry about gold teeth, and
tainted away. Some minutes later she
had rallied to the extent that friends
2Ould lead her home through the
streets. Her streaming hair framed a
Eaggard face and eyes staring like
those Of a mad woman She had iden-
tiled her husbands body through a
BOLD filling in his front teeth, and the
remains were brought down again and
prepared for shipment to Erie City.
viii Not Give Up Bodies.
With a tenacity that is only natural
under the circumstances, some widows
are actually fighting the men who have
NE burial in charge by holding the
remains OF husbands in their cabins
two or three instances are reported
where women have refused to allow the
baskets TO DE taken to the cemetery
when the wagon came 10 get them, and
nnumelable are the requests that
come in FOR another days delay.
His body is in good condition" said
one. Let me keep him another day
You can bury him tomorrow" And
50 they plead, and few have the heart
10 refuse them.
At the Meeting House.
The ministers were early among the
mourning today, and at 10 o'clock the
regular Sunday school at Winter Quar-
feTs Of the Mormon church was con-
vened, in the meeting house yesterday
strewn with dead and today a place OF
worship. II was filled with fatherless
children and many of their elders the
young voices blending with those OF
the older ones in their familiar school
songs. The gathering was addressed
by Apostles Teasdale. Grant and
SnOot, who tried to impress upon THEN
young minds that they should emulate
the examples of their fathers as In
after pears they would have to be the
support of their aged mothers, sisters
and younger brothers.
And you brethren who have beer
spared" said Apostle SmOot, will. ]
trust. be mindful of the condition OF
these widows among you. and study
70 comfort their hearts and see that
they do not want. PRAY for all: for the
honest in heart, for yourselves. And
I hope the time VIII come when you al
can realize that the hand OF God was in
this great calamity. / know it is awful
TO think of, and to those who have not
a testimony that Christ lives. it is ar
unheard-Of thing. But we must ac-
knowledge his hand in all.
Apostle Teasdale followed in the same
strain 1T is difficult 10 recognize
Gods hand" he said, lin a case such
Is this. but has it not been prOphesied
that calamities would befal and there
would be peTilous times in the last
Cavs?'
The record OF the Sunday school