The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-01-16

9 later, when Mrs. Hoskins, TWO OF be
Q children and two men name
D Morris and HoWarth were killed
? and they, together with .hos
killed Friday night make the numbe
thirteen. Alta ia yearly deserted
and miners are leaving, the alarm
: having increased with each disaster
, and with the imminent probability o
} further slides. There is q strip o
mountain which slopes towards the
town Immediately east OF that from
which the slide took place Oh Friday
and the snow is fully as liable to give
way at any moment; and should il
follow the course Of the other, that is,
a southwesterly direction, it would
carry sway the entire town. In view
OF the weather. it is not improbable
that further disasters may be heard
from, and miners aud others are
clearing out OF the. ill-starred camp as
fast as possible.
A gentleman in this city on Satur-
day received letter dated the 18th,
which gives the following particulars
OF the Glide that took place on the
night OF the 18th:
No doubt you will be surprised
when you hear OF the accident that
occurred at Grizzly at IL O'Clock last
night, in which Mrs. Hoskins aud
her daughter lost their lives. also
Johnney Howath and Evan Morris.
Charley Symons and Willie Hoskins
had q narrow escape. They hap
pened to be sweeping up stairs and
the slide must have struck the bottom
OF the house first as they we're on the
tail end OF the slide and got out
themselves. though Charley is bruised
about the head with being struck by
the timbers; but the boy got of with
only scratch on the neck. We did
not know anything about it until
about 5 O'Clock this morning, when
Capt. Merrill came up thu hill and
shouted that suoR-slide had taken
the GrizzleY boarding house away. l
bad just go. asleep (ss am on night
SHIFT alone) when Ripply came in
and told me that there was q Glide
down at the boarding house
and to get up and go down
Ai.h them, as all the men were going
Town. We got there about $50, and
hove ed about one hour and hall,
Then We heard some one cry and by /.
olloTing the sound We found the |
Youngest child laying in among the
broken timbers. By the side of it's !
lead mother. and about five or six |
eet away We found the other boy fast @
q among the timbers and broken '
lass. Both of the boys we're alive b
md l don't think that they are in .
1red much, though they bad been q
up nearly twelve hours. liz
10 not know whether they have found q
he little girl or sny of the others yet, u
nd every one had given up all hope 4
t any OF them being alive. There q
re now about twenty-five or 100 .,
nen around the place, and think y
bat they will get them out by to- y
light if not before II
The slide came off the hill Just q
rest Of the Davenport mine, and Just u
PISSED Sorensen's house end bursted "
le door in of the house where 81
ToOle used to live; but it belongs to a
ne City Rock Nine now; and the II
len that work in the tunnel live o.
lere. b
Johnny Mcdonnell and Ed. Herd d.
ere the Gully ones in at the time, a
le others being at work in the lun u
Ell; and it being their supper time &c
ley had just come out to the black IL
NTH shop, when they heard Charley al
I'd the boy that escaped with him, O
liking together outside. They Ii
arted to shovel out through the
low, so that they might get them o.
1 think that last night was the az
orst night l ever saw. The wind p.
ust have been blowing at the rae OF OF
10 miles an hour, and that is what 3
Iused the slide. The wind coming u'
ON the north, caused large cemb &c
/ top of the hill, and it, breaking, %
arted the slide. Of
Up to the time o! mailing the &c
tier the bodies OF Howath and Nor al
5 had not been found. -