The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-28
TAKING OUT BODIES
Narrowing Tale of Recovery of
Dead Miners From Har-
wick COIIiery.

Pitisburg. Jan. s7.-Todsy was tie real
dag of suffering III the little village OF
Harwick. where nearly $50 miners we're
entombea on Monday morning Today
the burned and mangled bodies OF the men
who went TO work on that morning are
beiEg brought 10 the surface and taken
70 the temporary morgUe. where they are
being prepared for burial
Every body 50 Tar brought up IS bruised
and cut and crushed into shapelessness-
The fact that the legs and arms are
broken ana disjOinted Indicates that tns
force Of the explosion must have beeii
terrific. It IS presumed that Il caught
Tho men and hurled them Ike straWs be-
fore d gale, battsring them against the
Jagged walls OF the mine and crushing
them one upon the other at the ends uf
the headings and chambers. Scarcely enc
OF the bodies has any clothing on il and
au are more or less burned. SOME 10 a
crisp. There VIII be great difficulty in
Identifying them on this account.
No relatives were permitted IN the tenn
porary morgue this morning, for the
sights there were too gruesome. and be
sides il is absolutely accessory that there
undeFtakers and embalmers, who had
more than they could do
When ali the bodies are brought up
that are now at the foot of the shaft
and when they nave eeen PREPARED LOT
view. the families and friends VIII be
allowed TO file through and assist IN
completing the work Of Identification.
The streets OF the village We're deserted
today. the We~nCn and children having
been made to understand that they had
better remain indoors until the author
tiles are ready for them TO come TO me
morgue.
Among the bodies found vas that Of a
stranger. IT was ouly slightly burned
Who ne was OF what he was doing IN
the mine no one seems TO know ~ ME
he is believed to have been a miner VINO
HTafaa
of the explosion. there is possibility
that he was a stranger, unaware OF the
danger in gaseous mines and that he
NAV unwittngly have caused the eX-
plOsiOn by lighting a match.
At 10 o'clock today twenty-thfee boales
had been brought TO the surface anu
there were then sizty-tWO more ar the
foot of the shaft
Inspector Cunningham SAYS the air in
the mine is getting better every hour. but
there is still considerable gas encoun-
tered. From the condition of the bodies
he thinks now that the men were killed
by the fierce of the explosion and not BY
after damp. as at first suggested
Pittsburg people viii attend to the last
sad rites over the dead who viii be taken
from the mine beginning today. At 6;51
this morning a trainioad OF collins left
the West Pennsylvania station in Ale
gheny for the mine Each BODY VIII De
embalmed and given separate grave.
Bernard Callaghan. deputy state mine
inspector OF the Ninth district upon CON-
ing to the Dit mouth after hours of work
Of rescue in the mine, stated that he was
convinced that by tonight ali the bodies
VIII have been removed from the mine.
He said it was absurd To think there
were any living miners entOmbed.
A general appeal for aid for the fam
lilies OF miners who lost their lives
through the explosion viii be issued from
Harwick within the next foTty-elght
hours.
The leading men of the place left alive
are considering the call and all the prin-
cipai cities and towns OF the state VIII
fe anpeafed TO. An effort will be made TO
raise at least $1,000, which amount, it is
figured. viii be adequate to provide for
The suffering and almost destitute wo-
men and children until the warmer
weather comes OF uutn some permanent
arrangement can be made for caring Tor
them,