The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-09

SEATTLE, Wash, April Slater ad-
wees; xiIes from Skaguay say that 1t is now
pcHeVeu tnat fifty or 100 peopIe xvera
Killed in the slide. Twentv-two hod;ae,
nave peen recovered and identified
anu twenty-five were brought out alive
SkAGUAY, Alaska. Anril f,,io O.
attle, April Sat about noon todov
Cn. ,he CnlIkoot trail, between Tbe
~eoiee ~ anu otOnehouSe at least thir,een
men met death and a large number Of
olhers were injured more or less seri-
ouSiy IN SnowSlide.
The dead were crushed undar
avalanche of snow and ice wbtot oo..D.i ii
ioWn from the mountain side unon H.
ieIt-hand side of the trail AT nnidwaH
."een ne Scales and Stonehouse. AT
'dIs ms writing the known dead are:
GUS SEBARTH, Seattle.
FANK SPRAGUE, Seattle
STEVE STEVENSON, Seattle.
com COLLINS. Portland, Or.
Z; F: HARRISON, Seattle.
w. l.. RILEY, Seattle
ONE WOMAN, name unknown.
Ed ATWOOD, New York.
e. BECK, Sanford, Fla.
y. NlDELE1N, Kansas CITY Mo
MRS. RYAN, Baltimore Md.
JOHN MORGAN, Emporia. Kan.
unIMES; Sacramento, who has a broth
er IN business at Dyea,
Two OF the seriously injured are Wal
- eer GhaPpey' of New York, and John
Z. Murphy, of Dixon, Oak.
Fully fifty people were oyertaken hy
the snoe and are either buried in the
SHOW or scattered along the borders
OF the avalanche in a more or less in
jured condition. '' III
Inc point at which the accident oc-
CURED Is some five miles above Sheen
lamp. Inc nearest telephone station
is four miles distant The telanbona
wires at this point were carried away
py the slide. This fact makes It diff.
this time. a.
binding snow storm was raging
a e1d, uay upon the summit, and, as a
consequence, many of those in the vi
entity were making no attempt TO trav-
ei: Sebarth, Sprague and Stevenson.
OF seattle, were travelling together az
in bed ~ "ioe
Thousands of people were encamped
IN the vicinity of the accident at the
time and were soon upon the scene
rendering such assistance as possible
upon receipt of the news, points below
Dyea telephoned up to know If assast-
ance was required, and received an
swer to the effect that 5000 people were
at work on the debris and were oniy
in each others way.
All day Saturday and Sunday
southerly storm. with wind. rain and
snow, prevailed, and it Is heliev-
ed the softening of the snow on the
mountain side by those agencies was
the cause of the avalanche The ouan-
tlty Of snow and ice that came down
in the slide is estimated at thousands
of tons.
1t swept directly across the trail.
which, notwithstanding 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 1t lay 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 unfortu-
mates have been taken from the snow.
One is that of Garrison, initials and
residence unknown; Ritchfe, initials
and residence unknown; Durber, in
1t1aIs unknown; residence, Seattle.
There was preliminary slide at
o'clock in the morning People were
digging UP their goods when the second
slide occurred about noon.
--latest reports are that thirty-one
bodies have been recovered.