The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-26

under the mass Of stone wrought such
excitement among the rescuers that
I they were prepared to undertake any
danger to render assistance to the inn
prisOned men.
One Dead, One Alive.
The cave-in released a natural spring
! in the earth above the tunnel and I'm
a few moments a stream of water was
gushing In and trickling about the
feet Of the workers. and to some ex-
tent interfered with the work Of res
! cue.
The fremen and policemen cleared
away the small pieces Of rock from the
big block Of stone and managed TO
get near Juno Pasquale and Batasto
Nalautio, who We're bruised in the back
and legs. AS soon as the injured ia its
1 immediate vicinity We're removed the
stone was blown up with powder and
taken away piece by piece. Back Of
this rock was a fifty-ton block that had
dropped from the roof Of the tunnel.
In e. crevice beneath &c the bodies OF
I two men. one lying across the other.
were found.
The upper man had been crushed to
death, while the one underneath was
alive, though his legs and body were
crushed. It was an hour before he
was e1ctricated. The big stone was
partly blasted away while it lay over
his and a hydraulic jack then elevated
the remaining portion Of il sufficiently
to permit of the mans removal. He
was Juno Baski. He had been pinned
! under the body of his dead fellow
workman for hours, part Of the time
conscious.
Four feet below the place where Bas-
H lay the crushed form Of Alphonse
Armatello was discovered under a
quantity Of small rock and shale. He
was quickly extricated Then were
found the bodies of several unidentified
Italians, some Of them crushed beyond
recognition
Later the body Of william Schuette,
was found, within ten feet Of the face
of the tunnel. He had been killed in
stantly.
Pathetic Incident.
A pathstic incident was the finding Of
the body OF Foreman Sullivan wedged
and jammed far beneath the stone. 1t
/ was not recovered until long after day
light. From about o'clock in the
morning his ten-year-Old son. Samuel.
had stood close by and could not be in
duced to leave until the body of his
father had been extricated
Many Italian women congregated
about the exit. weeping, lamenting and
rushing to the tram car each time il
] brought forth a body.
The corpses Of Stanzoine Bruno, Louis
/ Tippio. Giuseppe Barone and three
other unidentified Italians were found
+ fattened on the floor of the tunnel near
/ where the body of Sullivan was re-
/ covered. The heads of the men, in
most cases. were toward the exit, in
/ dicatihg that they had plunged to the
/ north in an effort to escape. Each
/ body was removed only by the lifting
/ OF tons upon tons Of rock.
Criminal Negligence.
Rufus G. Hunt, superintendent. and
I Richard Beyers, general foreman for
John Mcdonald. the contractor, who is
/ building the tunnel, were arrested as
/ soon as they reached the scene Of the
] disaster. but being experts i'm tunnel
D work and blasting. a magistrate re-
manded them to the coroner, who held
/ them in $4,000 bail each.
/ Coroner jackson said he believed the
I accident was caused by criminal neg
/ iigence. The seams that appeared Sat
/ UIday are believed 20 have been about
/ the great rock that fell directly in the
/ center OF the excavation. As soon as
/ this boulder. acting as a keystone. was
/ released. the stones on both sides fol-
I lowed It,
From men who worked in the tun-
/ mel il was learned that props had been
/ used TO hold up the roof The heavy
I timbers. II by y inches. were cFumbIed
I like toothpicks beneath the great
weight OF the cave-in.