The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-04-17

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pear under the mass of snow. TT
little fellow had wandered abol
twenty feet from his mothers sid
she not being conscious of it unit
the cry of distress came from til
lips of her child as he was swer
into eternity.
Eddie White was standing onl
a feet away from little Wesley whe
the slide came.
Both men evidently realized thei
awful doom the moment that tn
slide started. Fred Fulford brace,
himself and with one hand graspin
his gun with the other he wave,
a farewell to his horror-strickel
wife. Mrs. Fulford says that th
last she saw of Mr.. White he wa
whirling over and over as the slid
was taking him down the mountain
side, and with both hands he wa,
| holding his gun above his head ev
identity trying to make leap TO
his life. Mrs. Fulford says as b,
was being carried by she heard &
faint "Oh, my God" come from thu
lips of the man who realized that hi
was in the jaws of death.
Eddie White says that he caugh,
sight of his father several times be-
fore the slide reached the bottom
of the gulch, where the snow piled
up 30 feet deep.
The slide that came down the
main gulch stopped at the jiggers
which is about half a mile below
the mine and completely demolished
the house that stood there.
The slide that carried the victims
to their death cut through the main
slide at this point turning it's course
to the left leaving a perpendicular
wall as smooth as glass and from
10 to 20 feet high.
After Eddie White had started
out for help, Mrs. Fulford, half
crazed with the knowledge that her
husband and child were covered up
in the slide, and perhaps gasping
for breath, looked around for
shovel that she might try to get
them out of their snowy grave.
The house was entirely covered
up with the slide, so she put her
baby down on the snow-covered
dump and commenced to dig down
where she thought they were buried.
Darkness came, and found the
frantic woman still digging for her
loved ones. the baby nearly frozen
and herself benumb and faint, so
she concluded to dig an opening
to the house that she might put
her baby to sleep, and then re-
turn to continue the search until
help could come.
She succeeded in making an
opening to the door of the house
arge enough for her to crawl
through. The fires had gone out,
Is the stove pipes had been carried
away with the slide. Completely ex-
1austed she fell back on the bed and
With her baby beside her lay there in
mental and physical agony waiting
or the coming of stout and willing
lands.
1t was then half past seven, three
hours and a half had the poor wo-
nan worked to try and rescue her
husband and little boy from
nowy tomb.
1t was nearly II o'clock when |
he men reached the mine. Mrs. |
'ulford was scarcely able to speak,
'ut showed them just where she
bought her husband and child were
n the slide. They worked rapidly |
nd in half and hour uncovered the
'ody of Fred Fulford, who had
Violently been killed in a few mo-
nents after the slide struck him.
ls was on the dump under twelve
set of snow, and in a half-standing
osition with his head thrown back,
s if he had braced himself against
he slide. His gun was tightly
rasped in his left hand, and the
ag of game on his back.
About IL o'clock the little boy
as found under five feet of snow,
ting but a few feet away from
here his father was covered up.
was discovered that the mother
ad dug within one foot of her
cad child! The little fellow was
ing on his face, and apparently
ad never moved after being struck
y the slide.
The bodies, after being tenderly
raped in blankets, were placed
4 a toboggan and brought to town,
le heart broken wife and mother
blowing behind on snowshoes,
lille Que of the men carried her
.by.
The search for Frank Whites (
,dy was kept up until 9 o'clock.
ext morning, but no trace of him
,uld be found. A force of men
ave gone out every morning since I
e accident to try and recover the
mains Of the unfortunate man, re-
rning to Ketchum before noon, /,
airing to work later else they be !
,ertaken themselves with snow :
ide.
Bird dogs have been taken along,