Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-11-19
Task DoIefuI and Gruesome One.
Causing Many Heart
rending Scenes.
IDENTIFICATION is DIFFICULT
Grief-sirlcken Men, Women aud Chill
drcr Formed Circle Around
Where Corpscs Lay.

! hauuest act OF the st. Paul mine TRACE
dy-the recovery and attempted iden-
tihcation of the dead--began today.
Three bodies, those Of two men and a
boy were brought TO the surface -Four
others were dragged from the debris of
the second gallery and taken in the
cage, but We're not brought TO the sur
face. Fifty or 20 other bodies beyond
reach. for the time because Of the fire.
were seen in Che wreczago of shoulder
ing timbers and mud.
The sad prospect for the dav became
| apparent when fremen unrolled a great
strip OF canvass on the prairie beyond
the main shaft. Here the three bodies
Whlch were the first to be brought out
were laid.
THOSE WHO MOURN.
Grief-striclIen men. women and chill
| dren formed a great cicle about them.
| but many turned away. unable 10 en-
dure the soos and cries OF those who
| mourned, seeking their dead. Two of
the bodies We're quickly identified but
not until scores OF women had gazod on
| the blackened features and turned away
| TO await the next dreaded load from
the depths OF the mine.
why / know the lad, It's poor little
Diclde Buckles explained a miner.
YES it's Dicliie. the stable boy"
"aid another looking az the lads face
| Old man Stearns, an invalid, whose
only boy Is among the missing. limped
| 10 me outer fringe OF the crowd He
haunted the mine since SATURDAY
! can't. on. ! can't look he fault
| cred. with his hands covering his face
| Finally word Was brought him that
! rs NanH ..FL IA. INIT
body Of Louis Gibbs was next ident-
fed
Cibbss widow was nl at her home
and the corpse was recognized by
| comrades.
There were many women. but there
were more children. with their heavy
shawls about their heads. the women
| pushed their way 40 where the bodies
lay, and one after another turned away
some weeping, others, past the relief
Of tears, with hopeless grief in their
| eyes.
Many scattered about the yards and
| switch tracks to be alone; many with
their wondering children ciinging to
their skirts.
WORSE THAN MESSINA
Il was at Messina after the earth
| quake, but the horror Of that cat
| astrophe was no worse than this" said
Ernest =. Bicknell the Red Cross
| representative.
Among those IN the crowd were
woman and her young daughter. The
| mother. with folded arms and dry eyes,
| swayod from side TO side as IL rocking
an infant while nr little girl sought
10 comfort her.
Never mind. mama said the little
| one. wen mud papa"
The third victim TO be Identified was
| George McMullin. His check number
1000 was found In the pocket Of his
coat Word was sent TO one OF his
brothers.
YES. that's George, Mr. Coroner" he
! said. "but don't take the body To the
house. There are two more 10 come.
1 have two more brothers in tina!
Mrs McAIulun. wife OF the victim.
reached the temporary morgue just a.
the body was being carried IN
my GeOrgel Ny George, she
| screamed and collapsed into the arms
Of her brother-in-law.
William Redmond. a Chicago FIRE
man. who aided in taking McMullin's
body from the mine, told Of the dis
covcry.
rs that little boy In there his SOM"
asked Redmond OF McMullin's brother
NO. he had no son"
Gwen. he had that little boy clasped
In his arms when We found him. said
| Redmond The boys arms were
/
boy 10 his breast Tho man had on a
black sweater and this he had pulled
| over his face as though he had tried
10 protect himself from suifocation
HOW THEY DIED.
The lads head was tucked down un-
der the mans coat
THAT Is the way they died We
found them about 100 feet from the
shaft / suppose the man had been
carrying the boy and trylng 10 get him
10 the air shaft"
The IRE IN the mine. through the ef-
forts 81 the Chicago fircmen, apparent
ly was extinFulshed early today
They fought that FIRE inch by inch"
said Thomas steele, superintendent of
the mine After we had been down
there nearly two hours before daylight
! thought II was long enough for one
effort and started back. i told the
hromen TO come back 10 rest Thoy
| refused Ia come and kept on driving
the fire back Thoy stayed In the gal
lory for two and a hali hours ana did
not leave 70 until every trace of Orr
in the mine had boon cxtinguishcd.
The conditions OF tho bodies showed
that they died from sunOcatlon and
that they had been dead many days.
supt Steele declared that his assor-
ton that death came % every man in
the mine before shutdown OF saturday.
the day OF the FIRE, Was clearly demon
stratod by the disclosures.
Water was poured into the mine dur
ing the fire without quenching H.. The
water converted into rivers on the
floors OF the veins whore lay the dead.
The heat OF the names boiled the wa
ter and Ia n lay the unfortunate dead,
That they did not die by hro IL evident
because the clothing was not even
scorchcd.
IDENTIFICATION HARD.
Much confusion arose over the idonu-
ncatl0n of tho dead Though the res
cuels described the body ~ MoMnilin
las that or Tho man who closped tho Doy
in hts arms. the boy was claimed hy tho
mother aud sister of Alfred Knoll, d.
yoars old trapper and they also
idcntlned the other body as that ~ tho
boys father. Henry kroll, 63 years old
Helen Knoll. sister OF Alfred de-
clarcd there could be- no mistake.
"It d papa ana Allied she said,
weeping bitterly. II know papa was
trying 10 save my little brother. They
died la each others arms
There ID no doubt about the identit-
cation Of MoAlillln but another body,
! at hrst thought 10 have been Lewis