, 1881-02-05
THE DEATH CALI
Thirteen Persons Buried BY Slides.
Johnny Lang. ChinawOman. and
two Cinnamon Killed near
Custer City.
THE TERRIBLE SNOW
Ssz:e Communication between BONANZA
and Challis Closed.

From the Yankee Fork Herald We learn
that a terrible snow storm visited that coun-
try, and as it soon became quite warm the
snow began giving away from the steep sides
of the high mountains. Says the Herald: :
The stage bound for the summit left here
at about o'clock 4, NJ, but did not succeed
in reaching Custer city, having been caught
twice by slides, the first was soon overcome
but another slide came and caught the outfit,
and so wedged in the horses that the two
men were the greater part of the day eXtri-
eating them Several slides came down dur
ins the day but the men stuck to their work
and succeeded in getting the horses ont all
right The sleigh was covered by large
body OF
sOLIDLY PACKED
Snow and has not yet been extracted Just
after the horses had been dug out Messrs.
+. T. Carr and Alex. Pfeiffer were breaking
4 road to town when they saw snow slide
catch ]. c. Tracy, on the point about hun
dred yards below the mouth of Jordon creek.
Forty or fifty men gathered shovels at dif-
ferent stores in town and started for the
scene of the slide. The snow on the side Of
the mountain above town presenting very
threatening appearance, the men went to the
Yankee Fork and mp the creek bottom,
breaking trail through the deep snow.
They were from All hour to an hour and
half reaching the slide. When they arrived
OH the SPOT they were preparing to so to work
with SOME system when Tracy halloed. He
heard the men walking over HIM, and had
strong hopes of being found. The crowd
above stood still and listened, and the posi-
tion of
TIE MAN WAS SOON FOUND,
When work commenced and he soon reached
and taken out. From being so closely con.
fined-so closely that he could not move
limb except his right arm-he was badly
chilled and could not stand alone. While
he was being taken to town the distress
whistle Of the Custer mill commenced blow
ing, and a large number of Bonanza people,
expecting that it WAS a destructive snow
slide, went up with all possible haste, pass
ing few dangerous places on the way. On
inquiry it was ascertained that two men
were buried in = slide opposite the Custer
mill. Within few moments force OF sixty
men were
sHOvELING WITH MIGHT
And main Johnny Lang and stranger
were in their house at the time the slide
came, carving them 80 yards or 50 down
tie gulch. The Man that was with Mr..
Lang was socn found near where the house
stood and was unirjjured, as was the dog that
was with him. The slide appeared to have
knocked him to one side of the main body oi
snow and he was not carried to the glade.
Some Of the men after following the course
of the slide over the bluff and across the river
where a window and other broken portions
Of the house were
DISCOVERED.
Twelve or fifteen men went TO work there
with the hopes Of finding Lang. They had
not been at work long before the announce
meut va. made, there he is |" and few
moments later he Was dragged from the bed
of the creek. The sight was a terrible one.
Hi. body was cut badly in two or three
places, and he had lain in the water 50 long
that he Was q. Timber rs a rag. The crowd
returned to town Just in time to meet an ex-
cited Mongolian, who was yelling SNOW
come off mountain, mashee allie house; one
womsn, one little girl, fou'H Chinaman all
kiII'!" The slide; which was re'y large
one, had swept over Chinato~ni completely
drmolisbIps two houses, one belonging to
some whit. men and the other, which the
Aide struck first, being large log wash and
bath house belonging to some Chinese DIX
or seven Celestials
WERE COVERED,
But two e1tricated themselves. leaving four
-tuo Cinnamon, a woman and her little
mir, in the ruins. With the assistance OF
.o,ne white men, the excited Chinese wen:
to work, and during the night recovered the
cir, who was all right, and the bodies OF the
woman and two men. At 2 O'Clock IN the
afternoon of the same day slide occurred at
the tell-gate, two or three hundred yafes
alove Custer. 1t broke into the kitchens oil
the residences of Nessrs. Myron Crafts and
KIM Whitsett. The families OF Mr.. eraits
and Mr. Frank Farnham we're in the parior
:. the time and we're uninjured, but Dir:
Wb;,.ett his wife, two little sons, and
s;ster-in.law, Miss Lpe, we're all IN the XII
chen and all
c.rGu1 AND BURIED BENEATH THE SNOW.
Miss Hipe got her head out Of the 'no"
and showed the rescuers where to md the
other members of the family. They were
discovered in the places she pointed out and
for.un.s.ly none were badly injured 'he
onlv injuries being slight bruises sustained
nv Mr. Whit.ett, Mrs ". and the smallest
.s1a x-re near the stove. under part OF
IN. wall, aud nearly smethered to dsA'h "y
.rol. The other vas found under , boafa
.nd .f which was resting on table. II
Unu .r". r.-v lucky that all Of them we're saved
Tn. number Of buildings covered osmoi-
;.Ls5 or injured on the day mentioned "As
! sixteen