Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-05-04

uaCh INTO Lue pufel AIT uY our conn
panions. This damp contains carbon
dioXId and Is very poisonous. A Whit
OK II almost palalyzcs man, and a
good breath of Il renders him uncon-
sclous. Then he falls as II In a sleep
and dies unless instantly carried into
the purer air. What struggles take
place after that first breath are the
struggles that nature puts forth auto
matlcally / have seen our men fall
ana struggle but they know nothing Of
Il.
WARNING CRY.
"Gong along IN the workings we
would hear one of our party commence
o. cry ont and wayer. We knew at
once he had the damp and were gem
orally TO him before he FELL
FORTUNATE.
$50 far we haven't lost a man of the
rescuers, but when we first commenced
work before the ventilation was re-
stored q was a desperate game.
HAD LIT a PIPE.
eve found the dead IN every con
ceiyabla attitude one man had filled
his pipe aud SAT down 90 light &C.. The
damp struck him nnl Doc died then aud
there, with the filled pipe in his OUT
stretched hand.
WATCH TELLS TIME
"On q box where a dead Finhuder
was picked up was his watch. 70 had
stopped when the explosion occurred
and the hands marked 1925 o'clock.
FOUND IN GROUPS.
eve found men I'm groups who had
evidently s0t down to consult other
groups had been 0vertaken as they
rushed ahead of the damp. In these
groups the men were mostly lying ou
their backs, but where the single men
We're found scattered throughout the
workings they were face down.
THE REsCUERs.
THE men who lea our parties were
Supt. q. j. parmley; H. O. Williams. of
Clear Creek Mr. Cameron. of Castle
Gate; Andrew Hood. Conner Thomas.
Andrew Gilbert W. @. sharp. and per-
haps some others with whom ! was not
associated
"The men who formed the parties
aside from our own miners cam from
Clear Creek. Castle Gate and sunny
side
sTEELED THEIR HEARTS.
"How can we go through the ordeal
Of picking up the dead. shii, after
shift? Wen I've thought OF that, too,
and can tell YOU. We have lust simply
made up our minds moi 90 give way TO
our feel.nga-t0 stile them and Ignore
our thought OF everything except The
work 10 hand. Otherwise we could not
do q thing Why when ! have gone
through there and turned over a man
who was a friend and Intimate assoc
ciate. perhaps of years standing The
sentiments of grief stirred in an my be-
ing but / repressei them IL was either
that or else drop down hy the Side %
my chum take his cold hand ln mine
and just cry my heart out Tor we have
hearts the same as the rest.
but 70 would not do. we have had 90
stine an that and go forward with the
work. Some 0f our men were nervous
at first FOR the scenes To spite OF am
resolution did excite and move us; but
when the death list grew 90 dftY then
to hundred then no "a hundred ana
hftN and now 90 away over q hundred,
all got over 10.
But when The last body Is ont 90 the
mine you viii see more of us break
down You have seen us here for two
days working as though we were ma
chimes but there is going 20 be an end
10 that Nature Is going 90 assert Itself
and that very soon
DAN WILL COME
Many times a day one OF those per-
soni6cation OF humen misery of whom
there are $50 many here, Is seen walking
down the railroad track moaning Dan
Will come"
yes Dan Pltman viii come TO you,
poor woman, as soon as his mang.el
body Is taken out OF No 4. And what
then? win reason stretched and
already Co The breaking point,
suddenly snap? or win nature perform
one OF her miracles ana restore this wo-
mans lettering mind?
USE OF FUND.
what IS the hest use that can be
made of the relief fund that has been
raised 90 aid the sufferers asked the
'News" stan representative of one OF
the most level-deaicd coal miners in
the camp-a man who has q family