Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-01-22
THE STORM!
A PHYSICIANS RECITAL OF ITS
EFFECTS, AS SEEN BY HIM,

Their Sleigh Destroyed by a Snow.
slide-Anxiety for the Safety Of
Friends out In the Mountains.
The avalanches in Bullion CANYON
have continued the main topic in Hal
ley to-day, but no new facts have
been learned OH the subject owing to
the entire absence of communication,
the telephone wires not working. The
ldahoan concentrator telephone, which
was working yesterday, could not be
Scaled" to-day from Haley, the bell
being out of order Messages were re-
ceived from there, but none sent un-
less in reply to them. One of these
was a statement that men were at
work near Bullion shoveling out the
road, and another was in reference to
the remains Of Mike Reagan being
''stuck."
TO TIE RESCUE.
A party of men started from Bul
lion this morning with the corpse
of Mike Reagan, to bring it to
Haley. They succeeded in getting a
short distance below the Idahoan con-
centrator, where they were stopped by
the great mass Of snow piled up in the
canyon. Word was sent to this city
by man who came in on snowshoes.
whereupon Joe Morrill, htchpd up four
horses, took along a dozen shovels, and
George Taylor, Thomas Connolly, Dan
Towhill and Others started out with
him. Shortly afterward Mr.. Braase
took big sleigh drawn by four horses
and drove down Main street calling
d" All aboard to the reliet!" and in less
than FIVE minutes he left with load of
men, snowshoes, shovels, and ropes.
They may be looked fof to night.
a NARROW ESCAPE.
w. II. Watt and II. Stevenson,
while trying to make their way up the
Bullion canyon, short distanc,
above Gilman, yrster1iy, were sud-
denly stopped by an immense slide in
front Of them. While they halted to
consider the adviSability Of attempt
ing to go farther, another slide came
down just behind them the edge OF
which struck their sleigh, overturned
and smashed it to atoms. They es.
capped injury by CHANGING to be or
foot, little in advance of their horses
THE PHYSICIANS EXPERIENCE.
Drs. Higgins aud Mckay, who were
summoned to Bullion, night before
last, returned to Haley about o'clock
last night, almost completely ex
hausted, having been on the road, il
the binding storm, most of the time
since leaving here; and this morning
DR.. Mckay kindly supplied the fol
lowing narrative for publication in thu
| TINES:
DIR. MAYS NARRATION.
"Wednesday ~ nirg, at s o'clock
Superintendent Ravens called US by
telephone, and stated that he WISHED
us to start for Bullion at once, a
there had been large snowslide, GOV
ering up three men; and that one o
them, Mike Raglan, he feared wa
killed, as he was at that time eithe
insensibe or dead. Mr.. Ravens stat
ed that there we're at that time NJ
snewslides in the canyon between
Bullion and Gilman, as Billy Welcl
had come up only about two hour
before, and that he thought if w
could face the snowstorm, as far d
the road was concerned, we could e.
through al tight, and said for us to b
sure and start at once.
DR.. Higgins then gave him instruc
tons by telephone what to do for tn
injured man, viz: artificial respiration
stimulants, ETC., and stated that W
would not disappoint him if we coul
possibly get there, and would start a
, once.
We started out on horseback, an
, the first trouble we encountered wa
small snowslide just this side G
} Vorberg's old brewery. We wa
lowed around there about Is or 2
minutes, and finally got through an
|, into the road again. In the mean
2 time the storm was so severe that W
) could scarcely see 10 feet ahead of u
and the snow getting so deep that
was with great difficulty that OF