Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-05-08

SPECIAL To THE "NEWs"]
..w Utah. May S.--A most re-
be controversy is now raging In
IA Ii Is over the number who
4 a.ir lives ia che recent explosion,
.,.tsrs is "a wide difference between
futs given out by the company
f5ss given by the men who stood
d. mouth Of the tunnels and tailed
h8es as they were brought out
company places the number at
dead taken out, with five yet
4 mine. The miners give their
gas exactly giG. with FIVE dead in
nine and say that they could not
made a mistake. Ar Edwards,
Ken. count o.. the bodies received
D. boarding house before they were
down 60 the meeting house and
house. is positive that his figures
correct There is one weak point
! o. claim Of the miners II 2i6 dead
/ been taken out the total OF the
tla and the number Of bodies ship
J should agree with their total, be
, iss not
Igr correspondent today counted
} graves three times carefully, noting
! graves 30 which more than one
\ % Is buried. ana the result IS here
4 b, 50 that &c can De easily checked
4 lry 1e thinks there is any error;
d must be remembered that about
4 Sills were buried on Sunday
y there was another funeral yester-
n fm00n. There Is one grave at
d STRANGE 90 the cemetery and
h Nn iha odd Fellows and X. Of
4 t ln the other plot the graves
4 Frt row 9, second. third. fourth
\ ith Reach sixth. 9. seventh. z, or
4 l-aghl ia che two plots. In the
4 parts Of the cemetery thirty-oue
q miners who died IN the mine
= Ay Is, are buried SO that the total
rbr Of graves Is 49, The agent OF
railroad company reports that 81
Us we're shipped out, which makes
Grand total lust 200 There is a
difference as 90 the number OF
s son Do the mine. II is known
l's noe thereanl the miners claim
Aer, age twelve 90 twenty. Some
.ls fM assert that fifteen OF their
.}msl Who worked in the mine on
s, a't SEQ mdecounted for How
aahg ,ur number OF graves and
--alat ui shipments. together with
ha9au Go bs stIll ln the mine. the
Y. oi dead u.s. -Ii 10 o. more than
Iali the bodies of some Fins win
.-ll W.t1 The others 40 the Ferris
thanks to the superb charity
altl by the citizens OF Utah. SEQ
lll Nmied Quarters are RAPIDLY
-I.s lheif normal appearance.
ana Winter Quarters are rapidly
Is poo want and the stores re-
90 leie make destitution impossl-
ING Nlrk ui getting the exact
n 0 each family that suffered I'm
-'t'.ei Nill Do. completed today.
" -sl.ll.n1 directors met last
eIl le- ded 20 go ON with the pro-
'.fgnins 10 one month. II win
az spanish Fork D August 10th
".N ana iaa proceeds Will 20 %
..i5."s anl orphans. Five Of the
I. ,-.gl directors were killed in the
all many ut those most active
u, alaIf persisted Rev. JAYNE of
-,- anl E.u Wndman Murphy
-..rsa are st.N here. They saw
.4.il'st time for the afflicted
r. !-s. commencing.
Z annie LaluH. widow of one OF
~. gave birth to a child this
She ha three other children
t-,.i' canvass Us now being made
-.., natives Of the relief
~. e1a .ho Status of each fami-
hl-, ". -i0..el .u The mine explosion
...'.n.l Fifty-three of the
.'.- o. r.HN..l There are ga
'.. I| orphans On scoaeld
~. la. greater number are I'm
~ o. fti,.I'".s Tho canvass there
,t - ..af shows l-0 Of the dead
\. ., ... wing 81 widows ana 60 orr
-'- li.sa aEures win be added