The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-25

varying from oUU IeoC 10 u mile anu
half in length. So far no unhelmeted
miner is permitted to pass the thir-
teenth chamber, and that is accessible
only through a roundabout course in
the entries.
Air Is Clearer.
AS was the case last night, the air in
the mine at 10 o clock tonight is much
clarified, but government rescuers stat
ed that extreme care would be taken
throughout the night TO prevent repe~
tition of today tragedy in which the
two helmetmen were sutfocated to death
by the sudden exposure 10 carbon di-
oxide. Canvas curtains have been
stretched TO replace doors III all the
chambers which have been explored
leaving nothing but the entryways to be
ventilated during the night. Tonight
the Austrian consul and the Italian con-
sui arrived here from Denver to act in
the interests Of the families Of their
respective nationalties.
The mine company continues to. pro.
vide freely to al Families that have
boon deprived OF means Of support
through tho explosion
Aid Is Offered.
DR.. S. P. Morris of the American
Red Cross society tonight communicat-
Of the Stag Canon Fuel company, as
follows:
"If IN planning for future of fam
lilies our experience at Cherry, Ill, can
help the company, feel very free to
command US Tor conference or shaping
OF plans; our services are freely at
your disposal. Wire the state capitol
at Denver and we will come imme.
diately, Hope you are feeling better.''
The last sentence refers to General
Manager O'Brien' s physical condition,
he being one of the men who refused
to stop work until he had lost con-
sciousness, DR.. Morris being at his side
at the time. The Red Cross communi-
cation was sent from Trinidad, whench
DR.. Morris went from here Immediately
after he had been assured that the com
pany would make ample provision for
the destitute families. Upon receipt of
DR.. Norris 8 telegram General Manager
o 'Brien replied:
"Your kind wire received. We will
be glad to avail ourselves Of your serv-
ices after the mine has been cleared.
We will keep you advised"
Give Up Hope.
Disheartened by the empty.handed
return Of helmet crew after helmet
crew, families OF the entombed miners
whose fate is not yet positively known
tonight abandoned their long vigil
which had continued in front of the
manway since Wednesday afternoon.
With not a man having been taken
from the mine alive since O'Clock
Thursday night. and with the positive
statement Of the mine officials that no
man now can be alive in the workings,
the families tonight seemed to give up
their faint breath Of hope to which
they had clung SO tenaciously through
disappointment after disap ppointment.
The FIRE which had begun to smolder in
old No. 3 mine tonight was confined in
an abandoned chamber by helmetmen
and the chamber sealed with concrete.
After all the bodies have been taken
from the mine an attempt will be made
according to mine experts, gives prom
lse OF smoldering for long time.
At 10:30 clock tonight sixty-one
bodies had been recovered and taken to
the morgue. OF this number six are
unidentified and Identification now
seems most remote. George Williams
was the only American miner identified
tonight.
Two Rescuers Perish.
The most tragic twelve hours of
the disaster In Stag Canon mine
No, 2 since the explosion We'd
nesday afternoon, passed at 6
o o'clock tonight. Not until today did
the dead claim the living.those
sturdy, silent men who uncomplainingly
have donned their helmets and oxygen
tanks and walked unfalteringly through
the thousands Of feet of death-lined
chambers and entries-and then, lust
at the beginning of the day which had
been fraught with possibilities for the
throngs Of gaunt women, ever watching
the manway, came the news that two
OF the life-savipg crew were dead. In
stantly that which might have been was
changed. With but few exceptions the
remaining helmet men, thought, waiy-
cred and refused to return to the work
Of rescue.
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