Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-01-20
TERRIBLE SNOW STORM.

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TERRIBLE SNOW STORM.
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 1s-Snow has
fallen almost continuously in Wahsatch
Mountains since Christmas. The noun.
tains surrounding the mining town Of
Altar are steep and the trees have been
cut off. The tramway sheds Of the
Wahsatchie and Jordan Valley Rail
road have been swept away in several
places for five miles below Altar, render
ing ingress or egress almost impossible.
Two weeks ago snow slide carried
away a man named Darby. The storm
increased in fury with the opening of
last week. On Wednesday night snow
fell in sheets and the wind became o
hurricane. About ten o'clock snow
slide carried away the flagstaff, one
house and four hundred feet Of railroad
sheds, and swept across the fat and
creek to the opposite mountain. Later
another slide passed over the Victoria
and Imperial houses, burying two men,
who dug their way out in ten hours !;
continuing, 1t swept away the Grizzly
boarding house, in which were Mrs.
Jonathan Haskins and four children,
Charles Simons, Robert Howsrth and
Evan Morris; Of these Mrs. Haskins
and her daughter Jane, Howarth and
Morris were killed. Another slide
smashed and buried the Toledo works
and clearinghouse, killing Chas. Bur
bridge and Frank Laporte.
On Thursday and Friday work was
stopped at the principal mines and many
Of the men left the canon for the valley.
The storm continued and increased in
fury, the wind blowing gale and piling
the w,just over the crest of the hill
north of Altar, on the Altar side. The
great weight started another slide, half
a mile wide, on Friday night, which
would have completed the demolishing
Of Altar, but that was split and par.
TALLY diverted by fiat area just above
the head of the main street. 1t struck
a large and heavily built store, in which
five men had gathered for safety. Two
of them, who were sleeping in the Sec
ond story, were thrown out, but were
comparatively unhurt. Three had taken
refuge in the basement and built fire,
namely, John Fitzgerald, P. B. Lee and
VIM. Hollingshead. The house was
crushed in on them and fired from the
stove, and they persisted.
Richmond Williams and John Wash
ington, who remained to look after
Joab Lawrence's property, with instruc-
tions to sleep in the tunnel, are missing.
The avalanche swept away every build
ing owned by Joab Lawrence's & Co.,
together with their tramway, inAicting
o loss of $40, 900. 1t buried the Buffalo
House, but three men had returned into
the tunnel and were rescued exhausted.
Fifty persons came down last night,
leaving about twenty, who, for various
reasons, could not get away. The trip
down was fearful. Leaving their homes
with nothing but their clothes on their
backs, the women wallowed through
the SNOW as best they could, the men
carrying the children.
There remains enough mountain slope
still unmoved to complete the destru c.
ton of the town. 1t may slide any mo.
ment. Eight miles of the Upper Big
Cottonwood is said to be one of huge
slide, covering everything. A big slide
in Mayfield Gnlch has blocked the
creek for 400 yards and made quite a
lake. While there is Ito loss of life YET
reported from Big Cottonwood, miners
are leaving the cannon as fast as posi-
BILE, and when the snow becomes deeI
and heavy ON the steep mountain slope,
an avalanche may be started by party
walking across their face or conclusion
Sometimes blast far underground will
do it.
LAPIER, Mich, Jan. 1.-THE wife o
Mr.. Curtis, Baptist preacher, was as
saulted Sunday morning by Mrs. Bar
nard, who knocked her down, peure'