The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1886-01-23

were soon made happy. When
within about two miles Of the cabin
the party made verynarrow escape
from a fearful slide. Mr.. Mitchell
WAS On a mule in the rear, when the
alarm was given, and no sooner saw
the snow coming than the mule
swayed his off ear to the sweet
intonations of the avalanche and
with heavenly inspiration, "just
got up and flew.Y Man and mule
escaped by. a length.
Another party was started out
this morning by II. c. Lewis to
rescue the outfit on the summit. 1t
was composed of Johnny Falls
and Mr.. Miller with two horses
and two mules. 1t is their inten-
ton to bring the teams out this
way. The sled and a bale of hay
are on the grade about half mile
this side, and if that can be reached
the party will be pretty safe; 9TH
erwise the animals will suffer from
exhaustion and possibly weaken in
the effort to get out via Riverside.
The snow is very deep on the other
side and unbroken for a distance
of eight miles.
ON DEER CREEK.
News reached here this morning
that a tremendous slide took away
the hoisting-works, office and board
ing-house of the Davitt mine on
Deer Creek Thursday night, parties
having reached HALEY with the
news last evening. No one was at
the mine and consequently no one
was hurt.
Al. Stone and "Doc" Million
were hauling ore from the Irving
Thursday and got caught in a slide
on Warm Springs Creek several
miles above the springs. Doc"
was completely covered up with his
team, two horses, and Stone escaped.
He found "Doc" by a shovel
handle sticking out and rescued
him and the horses before much |
injury was done. One horse, how
ever, was crippled slightly. The
slcds were left and men and horses
came to town.
A slide occurred at the first !
bridge below Ketchum and block
ed up the road in a manner
that gave much trouble to the
stages and ore teams travelling
between here and Gimlct and
HALEY.
TIE BULLION DISASTER.
We clip the following account of
he disaster at Bullion on Wendes-
lay evening from the HALEY
Times:
about dusk last evening Mich
lel Reagan and Timothy Hawkes.
started down the trail from the
mine for Bullion, and
oon after leaving the tunnel were
.aught in a slide. Hawkes. escaped
With few bruises, but Reagan was
,uried unnder fifteen feet of snow
nd was not dug out for over an
lour. Doctors Mckay e. Higgins,
# this city, were summoned to
Bullion to try and resuscitatc Rea-
IAN, but before they reached the re
he unfortunate man was dead.
Vast areas of snow continued to
freak loose from the mountain
idcs- in Bullion, Idahoan and
eureka gulches all night, and all
lid down into the gulches and
filling them so full as to
'e impossible.
Doctors Mckay e. Higgins at
empted to return to Haley this
corning, but could not get further
own the Bullion canyon than the
dahoan concentration They en-
slide near the concen- ,
rator, the extreme edge of which c
aught them and they had very
arrow escape.
Doctor Higgins telcphoned this {
flee at one o'clock, this afternoon, I
nd reported slides occurring in his /,
icinity every few minutes. "The :
Disc occasioncd by these ava !
says the Doctor, " sounds J
Ike thunder" The deep intona-
ons were heard in HALEY "a
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