The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-05-10
MAY BE THREE
HUNDRED DEAD.
The Exact Number of ScofieId
Mine Disaster Victims Not
Known.
SEARCHING PARTIES AT WORK
One Hundred and Feny-Nine Bodies
Have Been Identified, but Many
Are UnrecogniIable Homes
Blighted


Blighted
Scofield, Utah, May 2.-To-night
estimate of the number of killed i
the terrible mine explosion here yes
terday is $50, but the total deaf
list may yet reach 300. Relief wOrl
Ii still in progress, being conducted
by shifts of men. The shift now il
che mine has fifty bodies ready tt
bring out, and the number of corpseI
yet to be reached is still uncertain.
Arriving trains are constantly
Bringing relatives OF the victims from
outside points, and the coal company
mas designated q committee to carry
The dead to Salt Lake, Ogden and
eottieT cities. On account of gas, No
4 mime has been abandoned as q
means of rescue, and bodies are ar
irving at the mouth of No. l by the
carload.
Ferr-ish level has been cleared OF
dead All are burned and are I'M
recognizable
EVERY HOUSE BLIGHTED
Every house in the little town il a
house OF mourning. The awful scene
al yesterday had passed away when
the day dawned this morning, and
awful calm of dispair had taken
place The agonized shrieks OF
abe widows and the means OF the
Ratherless were no longer heard The
stricken ones were beyond all that.
and their grief could find no utter
=ance
When the removal of the bodies
from the mine began yesterday hun
sfresis of men volunteed their services
For the purpose The rescuers came
from other mines and towns surround
ang and worked necessarily to bring
out the burned and mangled remains
Sof the dead miners The bodies were
taken to the company buildings as
soon as they were brought out of the
mime and were there dressed and laid
out, preparatory to the coroner's in
quest for Identification.
According to the closest estimate. |
Ihere were about 300 men, all told. |
at the two mines, which
are practically one mine About sol
OF these were working in what is
known as No. black level and raised
80 far from the explosion that it had
,speeat its force before the shock could
reatss them and they all got out.
They heard the report, but did not
grasp the situation at once, one of
the men continuing to load car
alter it occurred.
superintendent W. G. Sharp re-
sumed work with a will at 8 O'Clock. !
y hen a rescuing party of 16, directed I
BY State Mine Inspector Homer :
Thomas and including Messers. Sharp
Frank Cameron, superintendent at '
Castle Gate, and James Harrison, !
the tunnel of No. l. 1t was =
N iohe5 ccioie the pouleS commenced
o come out.
Firms ARE SUSPECTED.
The theory of Bishop Parmalee is t
hat some OF the Firms recently i'm Il
ported took giant powder down into =
he mine to assist them in their work. Il
they were exceedingly anxious to n
make a good showing and make as Ii
much money as possible, and it is {
hought this form of explosive was r
lsed i'll order that great bodies of A
oal could be more easily dislodced $
1T is thought that when the giant a
'owder was touched off it ionited y
ONE OF the dust, of which every mine b
las some. q
n curious fact connected with the
.ha4r Is that five men, Thomas Sell z
ers, ALEXANDER c. Wilson, John VIII +,
on, Harry Taylor and John Bed '
Ices, who were working outside of
he mine. We're severely hurt.
John Wilson was blown with his
loGse distance of 200 yards across q
he bottom of the canyon. The back n
Il ms skull was crushed. ir
Thomas Sellers was 80 yards away Il
rom the mouth of the tunnel, but he Il
ad his right foot crushed. shoulder :,
nocked out of place and his back b,
'adly hurt. Harry Taylor had his t
Nv broken. John Beddoes was So III
erely bruised,
b,
Have Taken Out as Bodies. in
Salt Lake, Utah, May "a dis y
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