Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-02-20
In the Ayalanches of Last Friday
Thirty Persons Were Killed
and Numbers Injured.
The Illinois Legislature Comes to a
Vote on Senator, but Fails to
Make a Choice.
Destruction of River Steamers by
Fire at Memphis and Loss
of CargOes.
The Missing Steamer Michigan Heard
FrOm-She is Frozen in
Out in the Lake.
Rescue of the Alta Sufferers.


ST. LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 18.--The re-
lief party sent to Alta to relieve the liv-
ing and bring back the dead who were
killed in the recent snow slide, which
overwhelmed that town, returned early
this morning. The relieving party had
very trying experience. Coming down
the defles on the mountain side, dragging
sleds on which the bodies we're placed,
sown up in blankets, they we're beset by
deep drifts and whirling particles of
snow which was driving badly.
The snow driven before the bowling
blasts of winter in the thin mountain
air, pricked like so many needles. For
tunately, however, all the brave men who
risked the fatigues and dangers of the
journey to save the unfortunates buried
beneath the drifts of the avalanche re
turned without having received serious
harm. Twelve bodies were brought
down the canyon in the mournful process
sion, single file, lashed upon sleds. The
first sled bore the body of Walter Hickey;
the next, Timothy Madden, Jeremiah
Regan, David B. Evans, James Watson,
Barney ellison, and Mrs. Ford, with
her baby lashed to her breast.
The last sled carried the four children
of Edward Ballou. The following per-
sons reported dead were rescued alive:
Andrew White, after being under the
snow twelve hours, slightly injured;
Frederick Culinan, after being buried
sixteen hours, also hurt, but not seriously;
Mr. Keisel, in the drift six hours. Be-
sides these, Mr.. Ford, though not cov-
cred by the avalanche, was badly hurt.
The body of one of the Cinnamon was
not found. Mrs. Ford, it appears, had
premonition of the danger and begged
her husband to take her and their child
rem to place of safety on that fatal
night, saying she felt sure an avalanche
was coming.
The inquest was held to-day and the
burials will occur tomorrow.
Mrs. Ballou, Mrs. Kiesel, wounded;
Mrs. Hewitt, Mrs. johnson and her four
children, and Hans Oleson and four chill
dren are still in Alta in constant danger.
A rescue party will go out tomorrow
morning organized to bring them in.
Snow slides in that neighborhood are
of daily occurrence. One occurred last
Saturday in Superior Gulch, which the
survivors at Alta feel sure has resulted
in the death of Samuel Prescott, ranger,
and John White, working there Two
men, going there to see if they were safe,
got in sight of their cabin and tunnel,
when they saw snow slide start, and in
an instant almost the cabin was oblit-
Grated in sea of snow. The conclusion
of the slide threw them violencly to the
ground. They hurried away for fear of
another slide. s-'Ff " ,.s.a r'7 Gf
It is reported that man named Nc
Daniels, living south of Alta, was killed
by the slide of Friday night. Nothing
has been seen of him since. In the three
slides in Alta, all of which occurred on
Friday, thirty persons have been killed.
News is received tonight that Samuel
Trescott, Richard Angore, John White.
E. B. Jones, supposed to have been killed
by the snow slides near Alta, have ar
rived in Wasatch, alive and well.
4 Destructton OF Steamers by Fire.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Feb. 18. ~ This after
y .
noon at 4 o'clock fire was discovered