The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-08
Especial 10 The Herald.)


disastrous snowslides in the history
of the camp occurred about 10 o'clock
this morning at Daily No. l hosting
works. Eight men were buried, four
of whom were recovered without Sc
r-ous injury. three were taken out
dead and one has not yet been found,
but ne is given up for dead.
The names Of the dead whose bodies
were found are James w. Keating,
n. Russatto and Nicholas Paffin. The
other victim is Joseph yucca, whose
body has not yet been dug out. Those
who were rescued are Thomas Hodges,
Harry Pinney, James Hallinan and
Charles Mathison.
The engine and boiler rooms were
wrecked, while the sleeping house,
y containing the eight men who were
asleep. was swept from its foundations
for several hundred feet and completely
destroyed, the inmates being buried
under the avalanche
IN TWO SECTIONS.
The slide came in two sections. one
from the southwest of tie Daily above
and north of the Daily West mine. 1t
was onl- a few hundred feet wide.
but came with tremendous force. The
other came from farther north, near
the Morgan mine. II was about 200
yards wide. The two sections came
almost simultaneously. The sleeping
house, with the eight men and part
OF another building. located 200 feet
above the hoisting works, was swept
by the avalanche against the engine
and boiler rooms, 4 portion OF the
building being carried as far as the
GRE house. which is several hundred
feet further down the canyon. The
coal house was completely demolished
and portion Of the snowshed leading
TO the ore house was carried away. In
the new sleeping house, which is higher
up on the side of the hill, the windows
were broken in. Engineer John Ad-
ans was at his post when the slide
came and was knocked down by the
snow as II crashed into the engine
room, but he crawled out safely.
1t is impossible TO say to what ex-
tent the engine is injured, but the
steam pipes were disconnected, the en-
gine being stopped Immediately.
WRECKED EVERYTHING IN ITS
PATH.
! The snow. which is about 30 feet
Geep, burst into the boiler room and
displaced the steam drums, allowing
The steam 10 escape. The changing
room above is a complete wreck, the
side being crushed in and boards and !
timbers mingled with wearing apparel |
and bedding from the. sleeping house, /
200 feet away, was found in the chang !
ing room.
The me1 who were taken out alive /
were all sleeping in the upper story of /
the bunk house. They were found /
soon after the catastrophe occurred at /
different places between the boiler |
room and the ore house. Hallinan was |
injured slightly about the head, while |
Mathison complained only of feeling I
sick, but the other two were unin-
sured.
Immediately after the slide occurred
the entire DAILY force came up on Top
and went to work with shovels to res
cue the entombed men AS soon as the
Ontario and Daily West miners learned
of the disaster, they responded, going
through the tunnel to the Daily, where
they worked heroically and necessarily.
The o'clock. shift also presented
themselves at the scene, and with this
large force OF men there was no ces-
sation IN their efforts to recover the
bodies of the unfortunate men
At O'Clock the body of Paffin was
found in his bunk. covered deep in the
snow. on the SPOT where the bunk
house stood.
The body was swollen and dishgured
almost beyond recognition. He was
wrapped in his bed clothes and his
appearance indicated that he had been
choked to death. He has a wife in
Salt Lake.
Keating's body was recovered half
an hour later close to where Paffin's
was found. He. too, was covered with
he'd clothes. but his body was in much
better condition than Paffin's-
Heating has a wife and family in
Butte City. It is said he had just re-
ceived a telegram that one of his
daughters was dying.
Russatto's body was found about 5;15 ,
in the vicinity Of the others. He was
disfigured about the head. He is an
italian and is not known to have any j
family. I
yucca. another Italian. remains yet j
70 be found. His bunk was recovered, !
also an Italian dictionary. He had a ,
brother working at the DAILY. The {
sSdg Syus'S 9's M
ASLEEP WHEN STRUCK.
The eight men were all asleep when
the slide struck them so that even if I
they heard it there was not sufficient {
warming to enable them to escape. The I
four men who were killed were all {
sleeping in the lower story. 1t would :
be guesswork to attempt to estimate 8
the loss which the company will sus '
ain from injury to machinery and by U
stopping of work. 1t viii probably
reach $4,000. The Marsac mill win be :
closed down temporarily as everything &
s covered with snow and there is a
scarcity of repairs, so that it will be
some time before shaft No. 1 can be
operated.
The entire south end of the hosting S
works is destroyed, including the en-
5ine room and boiler house The steam b
zums on the boilers were torn from
heir positions, but the engine is prob o
abIy not much damaged The smoke o
stacks are tottering, being held only by a