Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-01-21
A BIG STORM.
II Passes Over the Entire Wood River
Country--Accidents and Incidents
Caused Thereby.

For nearly three consecutive days
snow fakes have been quietly de-
scending upon hill and valley through.
out the Wood River country. This
morning the sun rose upon a sky
as spotlessly blue as the snow is
white.
The people of this section have had
a glorious winter up to the beginning
of the present week, and anticipated
no storm of such magnitude as the
one which has just spent itself.
Early last evening the distant rum
bling of slides was distinctly heard in
this city, and many were the specu-
lations as to the fatality of these
mighty avalanches to human beings
dwelling or working in their path.
The first news of disastrous slide
came by telephone from Bullion,-a
camp that has had accidents every
winter from this cause.
About dusk last evening Michael
Reagan and Timothy Hawkes. started
down the trail from the Mayfower
mine for Bullion, and soon after leav-
ing the tunnel we're caught in a slide.
Hawkes. escaped" with a few bruises
but Reagan was buried under Is feet
of snow and was not dug out for over
an hour. Doctors Mckay & Fig
gins, of this city, were summoned to
Bullion to try and resuscitate Rea-
gan, but before they reached there the
unfortunate man was dead.
Vast areas of snow continued to
break loose from the mountain sides in
Bullion, Idahoan and Eureka gulches
all night, and slid down into the
gulches and canyons, filling them SO
full as to be impossible.
Doctors Mckay & Higgins at
tempted to return to Haley this morn
ing, but could not get farther down
the Bullion canyon than the Idahoan
concentration. They encountered a
slide near the concentrator, the ex-
treme edge of which caught them
and they had very narrow escape.
Doctor Higgins tclephoned this Of
fee at O'Clock, this afternoon, and
reported slides occurring in his vicin
ity every few minutes. "The noise oc-
casioned by these avalanches," says
the Doctor, sounds like thunder" The
deep intonations were heard in Haley
"a distance Of six miles.
Several buildings in Bullion were
damaged by slides, and the people
here arc apprehensive of an avalanche
of snow through the. town which could
not result in anything less than the
death of many Of the inhabitants.
The telephone wire between Bul,
lion and the Idahoan mine is down
and direct communication with the
threatened town cannot be had. The
wires are in good order between Hal
ley and Bellevue, Broadford and Ket.
chum.
Notwithstanding the pleasant
weather in Haley to-day, it has con
tinucd to snow in the vicinity OF Bull
lion almost without interruption.
! Several snowslides are reported il
the neighborhood of Ketchum. but nc
one was injured thereby so far as car
be learned at this hours o'clock.
About 2 o'clock this morning w
II. Watt, Superintendent of the Par
ker group and other mines, accom-
panied by Phil. Reagan, manager O
the j. 0. Swift & Co. store at Bullion
lett for that town OF snowshoes
About the same time party left TO
the same place in sleigh, and at
o'clock II. Stephenson aud Deput,
Assessor Moore started for Bullion
with team and sleigh. Not wore
has been heard from any of these gen
tlemen since their departure, ant
great anxiety is felt by friends here a
, to what has become of them.
About noon to-day an avalanch
upward Of 500 feet in width wen
tearing down the side of the canyon
, between the Idahoan concentrate
E and Gilman. In its mad career it too
in the home OF family by the nam
of Drake, burying the entire house
hold many feet beneath the snow
Soon after the slide had settled Doc
i, tors Mckay & Higgins were presen
with others, upon the scene,a and hear