The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-22

WILL GIVE AID
To DISTRESSED
Directors of the 0aly-West Com.
pany Take Action.
RESOLUTIONS ARE PASSED
RELATIVES OF DEAD MINERS
WILL NOT SUFFER.
RESOLUTIONS ARE PASSED
ONE OF THE FIRST acts of Jacob

hNE OF THE FIRST acts of Jacob
" E. Bamberger, president and gen.
eral manager of the Daly-West
Mining company. upon his return from
the east yesterday noon, was to sum
mon the directors of the company and
take up matters pertaining to the i'm
mediate relief of those who suffered
through the calamity that resulted in
such an appalling loss of life in the
company's mines last Tuesday night.
Previous to Manager Bamberger's re-
turn, Vice President Wood and other
officials of the company did all they
could 10 alleviate the sufferings of the
gTlef-stricken and to see that the dead
were properly prepared for burial, in
every instance carrying out the wishes
OF friends and relatives.
1t was reported during the afternoon
that the directors would decide wheth-
er or not the next dividend should be
passed in order that the money could
be used TO meet damage claims. The
report had not the least foundation in
fact, and its circulation annoyed Man
ager Bamberger and the directors of
the company.
The matter was never thought of
or considered for a moment" said Mr..
cOnSl0GT
questions embodied in the resolutions
adopted and TO devise means of carry
ing them into speedy effect; nothing
more, nothing less The question of
paying or passing dividends is of sec
ondary Importance. 1t had no place
in the meeting held and was not con-
sidered."
The resolutions adopted express the
feelings of the officials of the company
Z n -.
be carried into effect without delay
there is no question. They are as fol-
lows:
Resolutions of Sympathy.
Whereas, On the night of the 18th
OF the present month an explosion
occurred in the underground work.
ings of the DAILY West mine, result
ing in the loss of life of thirty-four
men; now, therefore, be il
Resolved, That, in common with
all people of the state, we extend to
the relatives of those who persisted
our most profound sympathy in
this, the day of their sore affiiction.
And be it further
Resolved, That in view of the ap-
palling loss of life resulting from
this disaster, carrying as it did sOr-
row and distress into many homes,
il is the sense Of the board of d.
rectors of the Daly-West Mining
company that, without stopping to
take into consideration any ques-
ton of liability or non-iiability on
the part of this company. ii ought
TO and will, in obedience to the
dictates of humanity, make reason
able provision for the wives and
children or other dependent rela-
tives of those who were so sudden
" bereft of life. including the fam
lilies or other dependent relatives of
those brave men, John McLaugh-
lin, John Eckstrom. Richard Dillon,
George Richardson and Mike Con-
Ion, who. as volunteers, laid down
their lives in an effort to rescue
their comrades from the peril of
death; and to this end, the presi-
dent and manager of this company
is directed 10 ascertain with all pos
sible diligence the situation and
financial condition of the wives,
children or other dependent rela-
tives of any and all of those who
persisted And it is further
Resolved, That this company de-
sires TO and will in the near future
| commemorate in some suitable
manner the heroic action of w.
Martson, willard Smith, Roger
Canters, Dominick Regan, Patrick
Traynor. George Lindsay. Huston
/ Roliey, InomaS DaitOn, Dan GalIl-
van, Charles McDavott, Henry
Johnson. James McGregor, T. p
| Devlin, Mike Garratty, John c..
Coyne, W. J. Emery, Joseph Tenny.
Ole Johnson, Tom Durigan, George
| Shepherd. z. MacNeil J. T. Young.
c. II. JohansOn, Henry Driver, r.
T. Statz. j. W. Simpson, - Logeys
Joseph Kelley William Mcdonnell.
| Joseph Wright. - Benney, j. A
Weller, - Rowe, George Lindsay.
| jr Louis Girard, Tony LynOtt. Ed
| Hall. Val Cramer.. J. W. Rocker, H.
! O. Woods and many others whose
names at the present time we have
been unable 10 obtain, who, though
I their lives were mercifully spared,
| vet unfaIteringly faced the most
! awful peril in an effort TO carry
! succor TO those who were stricken
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