The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-05-22
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JUDGMENT DAY.
Canal Fulton Man Saw Some
Terrible Sights.
WRITES OF sCOFIELD HORROR
In which North Lawrence Man Lost His
Life-How Colony Of Massillon
Men Have Fared In The
Far West.

Canal Fulton, May 1s.-A letter has
been received by Canal Fulton friend
from ]. H. Stauffer, of Clear Creek.
Utah, which will be Of interest to read
ers in the west end of the county. The
letter depicts some Of the horrors in the
a North Lawrence man. 1t reads as fol-
lows:
Clear Creek, Utah, May 3, 1900. I will
pen you a few lines this morning. We
are having very sad time at this place
and as wish the people Of Canal Full
ton to have the true facts Of the case.
I will send you some papers which will
enable you to publish such facts that
people can rely upon. I am night
watchman at Clear Creek, a small viii
lage seven miles north of Scofield, am
at Scofield every day helping to take
care of the poor unfortunate persons.
do not think that shall ever be able
to describe the calamity and lamenta-
tions that have witnessed while there.
1t Is relief for me to come home and
spend my nights at Clear Creek. As
my position has thrown me among most
all Of the men and families. I fully re-
alize what their circumstances are. The
majority of our men spend their money
as fast as they earn 1t and consequently
will leave their families In very desti-
tute circumstances. AS a rule they all
have large families and in many cases,
under these sad circumstances, their
support is all cut off, but our company
is very kind and generous and will rem
der all the help possible for the COM
fort of the unfortunate widows and Or
phans.
When I came here last October. we
started with some forty men from Mas
sillon, now our number has been re-
duced to six men, namely: Bill Thomas,
Bert Hardgrove, John Myers, Lester
Gouchenour, Will Smith and myself.
Tom Brogdon, Of North Lawrence, is
the only man Of our number who has
lost his life. He worked at this place
until recently, when he went to Scofield.
l worked on his case all day yesterday
and 1 finally found and identified him,
He was taken out Of the mine last night
and Is laying with a hundred or more
bodies In the school house. with a sheet
wrapped around him. We expect to get
his body ready to send to North Law
renee today. I shall go down to SEQ
field this morning and see that his re-
mains are shipped as soon as possible,
We had to send to Denver for a casket.
Tom was generous hearted man
with only one fault. He often came to
my tent and told me his troubles. He
always talked kindly Of his family he
had left in North Lawrence, and. said
his sons did not want him to work and
told him he should never want for
anything. His request was to be sent
home In case anything happened to
him and l am the man to see that Il is.
done / worked hard all day yesterday
until l got matters arranged He is a
member of the Odd Fellows in good
standing. I made his case known to
the order at this place and they prom
ised me to see that his body should have
the proper care and be.shipped to North
Lawrence. Our superintendent Is a
very fine man and when l explained Mr..
Brogden's case to him, he said his wish
should be granted.
The company is doing all in their
power to make the families comforta-
BILE. You could see them carry big bun
dies Of clothing and provisions home all
day yesterday. could scarcely get my
horse through the streets on account of
the crowd of women and children anx-
iously waiting for their husbands and
fathers to be brought home. A great
many are not recognizable, as they are
burnt so bad. They are dressing them
all with new suits OF underwear and
nice black suits Of clothes and furnish
ing good caskets. You can see cas-
ket at almost every house. II I shoud
ever see the judgment day I do not
think 1t could come up to the sights
have witnessed at Scofield-women
and children running around screaming
and crying
J. H. sTAUFFER.
Clear Craak via Sc0fiaId TTtah