Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-09
DEADLY AVALANCHE
Kills Perhaps One Hundred Men
Who Were Seeking Gold in
the fSaskan Ell Dorado.
LANDSLIDE DOES AWFUL WORK.

Iwenty-TwO l,odies Recovered and Identi-
fed Names of Some of the Lost-Victims
Recovered from Under Thousands Of
Tons Of Snow and Ice-Five Thousand
Liush TO the Rescue of the Unfor,unates
-Meagre Details of the Horror.
Seattle. Wash, April 9.-Later adv.oes
from SkagUay say that it is noe be-
lleved that fifty or 1C0 people were
killed in the slide. Twenty bodiss have
been recovered and Unidentified and
twenty-five were brought cut alive.
Skaguay, Alaska, April 9, via Seattle
WASH, April 9.-At about noon today
on the ChilkCot trail, between the Scales
and StonehCuse, at least thirty-onem men
met death and large number ofothers
were injured more or less seriously in a
snowsliGe. The dead were crushed un-
der an avalanche Of snow and ice which
came down from the rlountainside upcn
the lefthand side of the trail at m, dway
between the Scales and Stonehouse. At
this writing the known dead are: Gus
Sebarth, Frank Sprague and Steve
Stevenson, Seattle; Tom Collins. Fort
land, Ore; G. p. Harrison and W. L.
Riley, Seattle; one woman, name I'M
known; Ed Atwood, New York: c.
Beck, Sanford, Fla; L. Widol il, Kan
sas City, Mo-; Mrs. Ryan. Baltimore;
John Morgan, EmpCria. Kan, and -
Grimes Sacramento, Cal.
Fifty Persons in the Disaster.
Two Of the seriously injured are Wal
ter Chappey, of New York. and John
c. Murphy, Of Dixon, Dakota. Fully
fifty people were overtaken by the slide
and are either buried in the snow or
scattered along the borders Of the ava
lanche in a more or less injured condi-
ton. The point at which the accident
occurred is some five miles above Sheen
Camp. The nearest telephone station
is four miles distant. The telephone
wires at this point were carried away
by the slide. This fact makes it diff
cult to obtain further particulars at
this time. A blind snow storm was
raging all day upon the summit, ard as
consequence mary Ct those in the vicin-
ity were making no attempt to travel.
ThoIUands of People Near at Hand.
Thousands Of people were encamped
in the vicinity Of the accident at the
time. and We're soon upon the scene
rendering such assistance as possible.
Upon receipt Of the news points below
Dyea telephoned up to know if assist
ance was required, and received answer
to the effect that 5.CCO people were at
work on the debris and were only in
each others way. The quantity of
snow and ice that came down in the
slide is estimated at thousands of tons
1t swept directly across the trail. which
was throEged with wayfsrers. The last
vestige Of the trail in the vicinity was
wiped cut of existence ard where il led
is now mountain Of snow and ice.
Three More Eodies Ident fled.
Later reports bring the information
th2t the bodies of three more unfortu-
mates have been taken from the snow
They are those of Garrison. initials and
residence unknown; Durher. initialsun-
known. residence Seattle. There was
preliminary slide at o'clock in the
morning. People are digging up their
goods when the second slide occurred
about noon. Latest reports are that
thirty-one bodies have been recovered.