The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-09
CARLOADS OF SUPPLIES
arriving At SCOFIELD
Canvass Of the 8ereaVed Families is Now About
Completed.
Eastern Capitalist Sends Check for $3,OOO-AnOther Body
Brought Out-COnditiOnS in the Mine.

never expect 10 see Such scenes OF
cOmmiseTatiOn again.
Captain Barratt carried a note book,
on the front cover of which was list
of the articles indispensable TO the
kitchen. As he entered the wide-ODen
door of each house he asked, through
his Interpreter, a survivor OF the KOsh
family, what was needed, and
when the women. apparently afraid
that their demands would overstep the
supply in the provision house, were re-
luctant to answer, he named over each
article on the list with a question mark
after it. The result was that by the
time he had finished his canvass his
book had the appearance Of grocer
order pad on Saturday night.
Young Widows Loss.
But a 15-year-Old widow was some
thing unexpected She is Ida KOski,
whose husband. several years older
than herself. met death in the Parrish
level. They had been married just a
year, and the girl has a child one
month old. She mourns for more than
her husband. Five uncles and four
cousins went with him, and there are
but two Of her relatives left on this
side of the Atlantic. The girl speaks
English well and Isl far more intelligent
than the usual Finnish woman. She
has a sweet face, and her house is no
table for its tidy appearance and
cleanliness Her husband had besides
his wife and child, an aged father and
mother and one young brother to sup
Port. They are left destitute, all Of
them.
Another house that was not spared
was one fronting the canyon on the
brow Of a steep incline far up the
mountain side. Mary Aho is mistress.
While her husband by a stroke of
Providence, was spared, her five
brothers and four nephews persisted
together. Thy all lived in her house,
and the monthly stipend Of the broth
eTs was the mainstay of the home.
Mary KeiOmela lost three sons, her
only support, for her husband has been
deed three years. She has two chill
dreu left. the oldest 16, and crowded
into the same little hut is Selma Hun
tas and her two orphaned babies.
The Finn question is becoming a
problem that the miners Will sooner
or later solve. Reports come from
Clear Creek tonight that a petition is
being circulated there asking the COM
pany to dismiss all Firms from its en-
ploy. and indications point to a big
emigration from the two camps. What
they viii do or where they viii go If
that took ace none dare say, but the
prejudice always existed has been
intensified Undred times by the
events Of the last few days.
Condition of Mine.
Upon coming out of the mine this
evening Superintendent Sharp said that
timbering work had been started, be-
ing compulsory in order to get at the
bodies remaining in the Parrish level.
He describes conditions on the interior
as follows: Tons and tons of rock
piled up form one huge mountain di-
rectly under which the bodies are sup
posed to be. If the rock underneath
is moved the rock above falls and
there the danger lies. The falling OF
one big piece of coal might produce a
Cave-in greater than that which al
ready appears. the same as the removal
of a pillar might be disastrous to a
balcony or whatever it supports. We
thought it best 10 take no chances and
have therefore ordered the men to go
ahead and timber up the roof But
there are dead horses to be reached
before we can get at the men. One Of
them was brought out today. after the
bOy5 had dug around the big pile of
rock for hours and hours. 1t appears
that the horses encircled the bodies of
the men, for in the last two days we
nave come upon the DOdleS or animals
at almost any point where we could
do a little digging. but we have not
reached a mans body. How long it
will take us to get the last one out,
cannot say"
According to the stable boss, there
are about thirteen dead horses in the
mine, and the stencil from these bodies
and the ones dragged out can be de-
tected hundreds of yards from the
mouth of the tunnel. 1t is awful to
contemplate. what the men on the in
side are enduring.
HORACE n. WHITNEY.