The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-07
ISAAC MARKS POWDER.
Name of the Finn Who Took in tn,
Client

NAME OF the Finn Who Took in the
Giant.
Especial to The Herald from staff Core
spondent.)
Scofeld, May 6.-Evidence has. come
to light which indicates that the reg
ulations of the Pleasant Valley Coal
company in regard to the amount Of
giant powder which it permitted taken
into the mine were violated. T. F. Ey-
non had a contract for grading tunnel
No. 4, and he sold this contract to a
Finn. 1t is said that figures given by
this Finn show that between April 10
ana the morning of MAY 1 10 less than
45l sticks Of giant powder were taken
IN 10 Pixies Peak where he and his
partner We're grading, as contractors
for the company, in tunnel No. 1.
1t was also learned that the man who
caused this explosion, as is believed.
by carelessness IN the use of giant pow
der, was Isaac Maxi, whose burned
and scared body was found near the
scene of the original explosion of pow
Ser. His remains were among those
brought out by rescuing parties TO ths
c0mpany's barn at the mouth Of tunnel
No. 4. The body was horribly bruised
and burned from immediate contact
with the terrible flames which arose
from the ignition which followed the
explosion of powder.
The company has been unable to give
the names of the two Firms to whom
EynOn transferred the contract to do
the grading on Pixies Peak. At this
point in tunnel No I. as in many other
places throughout this great blanket
OF coal, there is a fault" in the vein.
1t breaks off suddenly, and is found
again many feet above the general
lever. Consequently, the tunnel has
been run on a very steep grade. about
% per cent, in order to follow the coal.
But the company decided to straighten
out it's tunnel and thus s2ve the diff
Guilty Of hauling up and down this hill,
which miners fandliarly term pixies
Peak"
Thomas F. .Eynon and James ]. Jen-
kins. the latter of whom was amon=
the killed, have had the contract for
doing this work sirce last November.
They gave it up on April 13 to the two
Firms, Isaac Maxi aud his partner.
whose first name is Albert, but whose
other name could not be learned amid
the chaos and confusion at ScOfield
The company has no record of either
name.
Taken in by Eynon.
Eynon states that sore time before
giving up the contract he and his part
ner, Jenkins, purchased from the COM
pany and took into tunnel No fifty
pound box Of giant powder, which usu-
ally contained 230 sticks. This was of
The quality known as Hercules No. ,.
containing IS per cent glycerine. The
miners, in blasting out coal. use black
powder which comes in twenty-five
pound kegs. 1t is sufficiently powerful
for their work But in this work Of
grading the tunnel Of Pixies Peak much
solid rock was encountered. and it was
necessary to use the highest Of explo-
Gives to tear il asunder.
When Eyn0n and Jenkins gave up
the contract on April Is tO the two
Firms, they had left over III sticks of
giant powder, which they sold to the
new contractors.
The partner Of Maxi, who escaped de-
struction, was, fortunately, not in the
mine on the fatal Nav day morning.
When he quit work asst Monday night
he decided TO lay of on Tuesday, for
he had some business at Clear Creek
which he wanted to settle and ne was
attending to this at t.e t1nle OF the ex-
piosfon. His partner went in to do the
work alone, taking with him fifty sticks