The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-09
THIRTY 0NE BURIED
SnoWsIide Sweeps Across the
Chifkoot Trail.
MEN CAUGHT IN CAMP
Crushed Without Warning
One Victim a Kansas Man.
MEN CAUGHT IN CAMP

Skaguay. Alaska. April 3. via Seattle.
Wash. April Sat about noon today, on
the Chilkoot trail, between the Scales and
Stone House, al least thirty-one men met
death, and large number of others were
injured more or less seriously in snow
slide.
The dead were crushed under an ava
lanche of snow and ice, which came down
from the mountain side upon the left
hand side of the trail at midway between
the Scales and Stone House.
At this writing the known dead are:
GUS SEBARTH, Seattle.
FRANK SPRAGUE, Seattle
STEVE STEVENSON. Seattle.
TOM COLLINS, Portland. Ore.
c. P. HARRISON, Seattle,
w. It. RILEY, Seattle
One woman, name unknown
ED ATWOOD. New York.
C. BECK. Sanford, Fla.
l. WEIDELEIN, Kansas City, Mo.
MRS. RYAN. Baltimore, Md.
JOHN MORGAN. Emporia, Kan.
has brother in business at Dyea-
Two Of the seriously injured are Waiter
Chappey of New York and John C. Muir
ply of Dixon. Dakota
Fully fifty people were overtaker. by the
slide and are either buried in the snow
or scattered along the borders of the
avalanche in a more or less injured condi-
ton.
The point at which the accident occurred
is some five miles above Sheep Camp. The
nearest telephone station is four miles
distant. The telephone wires at this point
were carried away by tho slide. This fact
makes It difficult to obtain further particu-
lars at this time.
A binding snow storm was raging al
day upon the summit and as a conse-
quence many Of those In the vicinity were
making no attempt to travel. Sebarth
Sprague and Stevenson Of Seattle were
travelling together as partners and were
found side by side in bed
Thousands Of people wers encamped in
the vicinity of the accident at the time
and were soon on the scene rendering such
assistance as was possible. Upon receipt
phoned up to know II assistance was re-
quired and received answer % the effect
that 5000 people were at work on the de-
bris and were only in each others way.
All day Saturday and Sunday a south
erly storm, with rain. wind and snow, pre-
vailed in this vicinity. and tbs believed
the softening of the snow on the noun
tain side by those agencies was the cause
Of the avalanche. The quantity of snow
and ice that came down in the slide is
estimated at thousands of tons. It swept
directly across the trail, which, rotwith-
standing the fact that the weather was
unsuitable for travel, was thronged with
wayfarerS- The last veStige of the trail
in the vicinity was wiped out of existence
and where it led is now a mountain of
snow and ice, under which are many dead
bodies that cannot be recovered for days
to come.
Later reports bring the information that
the bodies of three more unfortunahes
have been taken from the snow. One is
that of Garrison, initials and residence
unknown; Ritchie. initials and residence
unknown: Durber, initials unknown resi-
dence Seattle.
There was a preliminary slide at
O. clock in the morning. People were dig
ging out their goods when the second
slide occurred about noon.
--latest reports are that thirty-one bodies
have been recovered.