The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-18

/ - lsseaAs o. ROisin Sanford. who was
- = tss younger socissy 81 hsrs. VIZ
- - 20 learn that he was not one Of
- Vssxsms oE the awful disastsr IT Sheep
o. = wM 81 Arss feared. but Vas ons
- - nsss - arrive - the scene after
- asaaAaehs had taksa piaae and to aid
= ooesvsrlxs IL bodtse ~ thess unfos-
$3.50 sosuGh - - svertsksn ~ it. The
oanuwMg snkrsets are taken from let
- vsfGasn ~ hin April 6. thres dAys
ofeng - sa3as tpek placs:
- sppne yoa have read nj about the
aoasih'e snsw slidss on the trail between
Oeane hsuse and the Scales. They result
- nan . three dayg heavy snow and
21no otoem piiinS tbs SNOW in huge
Ayffo on the mountain side: these drifts
o&11o1 - slids int the valley ~ soon -
GoouGA had coilccfe4 to make the mass
4Un4lAwy. TIE weather Was - bad that
~ ekree gays Up packing for four days.
Wo11tnD Tar - 20 moderate. There were
. oaa1oor ~ msn. however. who went
oAoa4 just ths same getting their out
~ bvor the summit. and some profess
o11nAl pAakers, who were caught In the
oti1o ana buried. Thsrs we're really three
utt61A tho fisst one taking place Sunday
ut .. n. ~ the Scales. in which about
e1y1nta@p e41ptxY were buried. AL but
sNo e lhsee. ho4ever. were rescued. The
naze alide happened . little later. IT
0eoAo house. and three men eamped ~
the ooot o. the mountain were buried in
their tent and tSken OUT dead short
TIM afterwards.
.5Ths third and werN Aide took place
r. dxida M mex M rsA Z
disastrous. There we're about forty men
Ap0 two women on the summit. who
ftsana oAe weather. 50 bad that they could
not work ard they started back Tor Sheep
eosnp. They al had hold or q rope TO
eotds themselves by. as the wind and
anew w<re 80 binding that they could
80 but few feet Ia front OF them. While
canning down from the summit one OF the
woman tot buried In a snow drift. but
va RESCUED By the nssn who were on the
ltne. This woman Was afterwards killed
n The tG snow side. che first thing |
knew about the accident was hearing q
enAu outside our tent saying that about
forty men had been buried by a snow
eide 81 tho Scales he having eseaped by
ee1Ds lucky accident. got a shovel and
btakt4d up the Hill. reaching the spot
abous An hour after the aide had taken
plaza The whole country was changed
y e1peafancc. snow from eight TO fifteen
1set chokinE up the whole valley.
wes one OF the first crowd OF about
shisev men 10 yet to the spot and began
90 Aig beside a man In trench where iha
bedies were supposed to be lying When
arrived some i've or six living and two
- three dead had been taken out and
carried 10 power house near ky. which
has been turned into a hospital and
mofgue. l saw two bodies being hauled
ewaY qp Aeds. and II made me feel sick
ene neipiess for minute or so.
AZ this time the weather was fine ana
We could see how 10 work along the Ilae.
az man IA the trench nsxs 10 me and
pagan 10 dis away and soon We struck n
man. think On his arm. 1 got rim, ,,oxn
and brushed the snow away rem his IA q
eAu found he was alive. butt ngt Of his
mead II took us only few fnInutea Ia
dig him out bat II seemed ages, ms
eyes rolled about ana ne made borrfs,e
n6eses trying 10 talk. He Also struggled
IN spite or our efforts 70 prevent him. but
Was OF no use. as the snow held him
perfectly rigid. We finally sot him ost
and paused him over TO some ashar men
who took him by The arms and v.ls.,g
him 10 the power house. think he must
have lived but am nas sure lie wsx M
Ger eight feaf or Snow. We began To die
again. bat found no more ssoafs@ only \
cap and the rope. THIS rope wa dug on,
III number OF places and followed M
end most af the bodies we're found asons
II VIM. We were digging away men
we're taken ouS on each side og as SOM.
living. some dead One man a.. rousa
hear under the snow making insaher.n.
sounds and meaning. Tire men dug away
In sniSk ORDER and came FIRST Ia his bots
II was no, long before he was taken on,
ana the men al eheered
BY nlghsfali ten living and Ten ssaa
Rad been taken our that know az. and
nsVe sihce heard That more living unps
were taken out than that number. Anonw
the dead we're two women me ola a.
other younger. both hard workers who
were helping tstssr husbands With .Arir
oufnts dent knsw what became d,
their husbands. nut heard thar ene 81
them was saved.
Later In the afternoon II began "a