Evening star., 1898-04-09
BURIED IN THE SNOW
Prospectors Caught in an Avalanche
on Dyea Trail.
OVER 100 BELIEVED TO Be KILLED
Fears Felt for the Safety Of Rail-
road Employees.
LIST OF THE UNFORTUNATES

SKAGUAY, Alaska April 4, via Victoria,
B. c., April 9.-Later reports of the horror
which occurred on the Dyea trail yesterday
increase it's magnitude. AS the work of
fescue proceeds 1t becomes more apparent
that many more lives were lost than at
first thought possible 1t is now believed
that between fifty and one hundred men
and women were killed by the avalanche.
Many bodies will never be recovered until
the summer sun melts the tons of snow AMI
ice that now bury them from sight. Two
or three thousand men working in re-
lays of as many as can stand side by side
shoveing away the debris in search of the
dead and dying. Twenty-Five dead bodies
have been recovered and identified and
twenty-five have been taken out alive.
Corrected List of Those Killed.
A corrected list of killed, as complete as
possible at the hour of writing. is as fol-
lows: Gus sebrath, Seattle; Frank Sprague,
Seattle; Steve Stevenson, Seattle: c. H.
Harrison. Seattle; W. L. Riley. Seattle: l..
d. Atwood, New York; c. Beck, Sanford,
Fla; L. w. Widelin, Kansas City, Mo-;
Mrs. Ryan, Baltimore, Md; John Morgan,
Emporia, Kan; f. NJ Grimes, Sacramen-
to, Cal; Mrs. Anna Moxon. Jefferson coun-
ty, Pa; Ras Hopgard, Baker City. Oregon;
= Atkins. Idaho: Tom Jeffart. Seattle;
E. F. Miller. Vancouver, Wash; Tom Col
lins Portland, Ore; T. Lamar.
Those seriously injured SO far as
covered, are: Walter Chaprey, New York;
John C. Murphy, Diedon. N. D.; F. B. Hol
brooke, Portland, Ore: - Dahlstrom,
residence unknown.
FeEr for Railway Hands.
Seventeen employees of the Chilkoot Rail-
way and Tram Company, who went up to
the summit on the morning of the slide to
work, are missing, and it is feared that
they are among the lost.
1t is estimated that 10000 tons of outfits
are buried under the snow and ice There
were several smaller slides before the
death-dealng avalanche was started.
About a.m. a small slide occurred,
which buried several cabins. The alarm
was spread, and many people were
deaVoring to work back to Sheep Camp
when the biggest occurred. The snow
storm was binding and crowds were COM
ing down by the aid of u rope when over
taken.
The exact location of the slide is given at
two ard half miles above Sheep Camp
and 100 yards above the Oregon Improve
ment Companys power house Here an
immense iI gorge rises at very steep incline
into the hills and it was down this the
avalanche came. The telephone office here
has been thronged all day and night with
friends, anxious to get some word of friends
believed to have been in the disaster
Many people ,have gone from this city
ana Byea to Sheep Camp to aid in the work
of rescue. 1t is believed that when the full
returns arc in the dead will number near
er one hundred than fifty.
The slide covered the trail for several
hundred yards est depth of fifty feet in
many PLACES. 1t has effectually discontin-
ued travel for the present, and 1t will be
scme time before 1t can be resumed.
Story Of II Survivor.
J. A Raines of Maine who was fortunate
enough to BE- dug out alive. SAYS:
"All of a, sudden 1 heard loud report,
ard Instantly felt myself going swiftly
down the hill. Looking around 1 saw many
others buried some with their feet out and
heads buried out of sight, and others vice
versa. When struck the bottom tried to
run, but the snow caught me and 1 was in
stantly buried bensath thirty feet of snow
and rock, being on the very verge of death
by suffocation when l was reached by the
rescuerS.
Il think the slide occurred about II am
I am thankful to be alive today. Among
my partners We're S. T. Burge, Empora,
Kan; A. s. Smith, Kansas City: F. G.
Brease, Emporia, Kan, and J. A. Morgan,
who went down in the slide. The rest es-
capped uninjured.
MANY, l presume, were saved by taking
hold Of rope for hauling freight up to the
summit. BY his means forty or fifty were
pulled out battered and bruised more or
less, but glad to be alive at any discount
l never want to nor expect to experience
such an awful half hour again as long as
live