Arizona republican., 1910-02-08
BODIES OF THE VICTIMS
Six Are Here, the Seventh Will Come Today-Fu- neral of J. c. Griffin This Morning = Further De tails of the Tragedy

 killed in the Kelvin explosion little after noon on Sunday were were brought to Phoenix on the train yes terday afternoon. accompanied by w J. Woodrow, the Kelvin undertaken. George Driscoll of the undertaking firm of Mohn & Driscoll of this city, J. F Cleaveland. a brother-in-law of R. P Coleman, one of the victims: T E. HarWood and D.D. Worcester, both young mining engineers in the employ of the Ray Consolidated Copper com pany and personal friends of all the dead. and a number of other Kelvin and Ray people. An inquest had been held on the six bodies. or had pro- cee6ed far enough so they could be released by the coroner in time to bring them to Phoenix yesterday. The bodies are those of:
 R. P. Coleman. age 30. mining engineer
 W. H. Freeland. age as. mining engineer
 Walter c Krenz age g. mining engineer.
 J. B. Joyce. age 27. civil engineer.
 J. c. Griffin, assistant to Civil engineer.
 H. H. Lyall. about 90. motorrnan.
 The body of A. L. Bieber. the civil engineer in charge of the engineering work in the construction of the Kel- vin-Ray railroad. was not recovered until near dark Sunday afternoon. hay ing been buried beneath a heavy ton- age of rock and debris Ii was kept in Kelvin for another day that an in- quest could be held. and will prob ably be brought to Phoenix this after noon.
 E. A. Lyall of Steins. N NJ. near the boundary line between Arizona and New Mexico. a deputy sheriff of the sister territory. arrived here yesterday afternoon about the time the body of his brother got here from Kelvin. He had been apprised of the accident by wire yesterday afternoon and took the first westbound train for Phoenix He saw the body of his brother at the un- dertakers and will this morning go to Kelvin and visit the scene of his death merely for the satisfaction of learning all the facts first hand. He was little worried by the early re- ports which, while in no sense of an accusing nature. indicated that his brother might through carelessness have been mainly responsible for the awful circumstance. He said he be- lieved his brother had had sufficient experience to be at least reasonably careful under such circumstances.
 The recitals of the event heard from those who came from Kelvin yester day, while not conflicting with earlier reports. are further Illuminating and indicate, first, that the responsibility rested largely on those who lost their lives: secondly. that one was probably no more at fault in his judgment than another. and. lastly. that all of them acted more deliberately and with more thoughtful judgment than seemed to be the case when the facts were first learned. The stories told yesterday were that there had been five blasts set sometime previously. either Saturday or still earlier in the week and that four of 1 them had responded to the firing of the fuses. Sunday one of the. powder men came by, tested the fuse and con- cluded that it was good one. where ] upon IL WIS uSnteu anu proper WdTn- ings were given as previously report | ed Responsive to the warnings of the | foreman of the work the men on the l motorcar had waited twenty minutes | Some reports say they then decided | that if tine blast was going off it would l have exploded in less time that that l NIT. Cleaveland says he was also told | that there was much blasting going on | elsewhere in the vicinity and several | shots were heard during the wait. so it | is not improbable that the men decided | that the blast in question had already | exploded before they proceeded. In | either event. it can hardly he charged | that they were not at least fairly cau- tious. as would he expected of gentle men of their technical training. though | as results have shown they were still | toe nasty.
 The conclusion that the accident oc- cured on a broad gauged track which | suppianted the narrow gauge road. l generally held here on Sunday. was erroneous. that idea leading to mis- conception of The size Of the motor car and occasioning surprise that | death should have come instantly to all of them. The fact is that the standard gauge railroad is not yet in commission and the motorcar is a lit- tie one used on the narrow gauge line.