, 1902-03-06
THREE SNOW SLIDES
KILL TELLURIDE MINERS

/ could be secured as to the extent of the
awful disaster.
First reports placed the dead at all
the way from fifty TO seventy-hve, hTt
1t is now thought the death list will
not exceed twenty. At noon five dead
bodis had been recovered. Five of the
injured had also eel brought to town
and placed in the hospital. Most OF
those who escaped serious injury came
to town with the injured and the dead.
Just before noon bulletins over the
signature of the Tom Boy company
were posted, calling for all the men
available to work on the slide. Snow
la been driZZling down for a day or
two, probably a foot of fresh snow ac-
cumulating up to last night. Just be-
fore midnight the snow began falling
in earnest and from midnight to moo
to-day nearly two feet had fallen.
About IL o'clock the clouds lightened
up slightly and showed a disposition 20
break away. The snow came down
less heavily for a few moments, but
the respite wa brief and by noon II
was showing harder than aver.
+. c. Clemmer. ii is said, was sitting
at his desk and making out the time of
the employees of the company when the
crash came and all the books OF the
company recording the names of those
on tile payroll at the mine were de-
stroyed.
While at this hour 1t is positively
known hat fourteen men are killed,
whose names are given below, it Is be
lieved by many that with the advent
of spring, When the snow melts, there
will be some startling disclosures in
Cornet Creek gulch. The company can
not tell from its books how many men
are lost, for the reason that the miners
who survived have not reported.
Among those who at once rushed to
the scene of the disaster were John
Heron. manager of the Tom Boy Gold
Mines Company, and ]. w. Lyons, for.
merly foreman of the Tom Boy mill.
The latter was caught in the edges
Of the second slide, which broke some
what higher up the mountain and came
down in the path of the first. He says
some of the miners acted like madmen
and did not appear to know what they
were doing.
At 1870 word came from the Liberty
Bell office asking that bulletins be
| posted asking for all the help possible,
as n second slide had come down, cover
ing the rescuing party.
The second slide. which came down
in the track of the first and caught the
rescuing party. killed Harry Chase, L
$. Stanley, George Rohwer and w. S
Gregory. Only the body of Chase was
recovered.
The following received injuries more
or less serious in this slide:
] Lee Carroll. Stockton Smith. Knute
Talson, John Isakson and Charles Hall.
A third slide came down and killed
49,. e. Al III. So.
and started for town n party was
caught in a slide near the curve sta
ton on the tram. and four men were
killed. They were: Gus Won Flinter,
John Il. Powell and Paul Palpra.
DIR. Allen was in this party and re
celved injuries, but got out safe.
None of these bodies We're recovered
Several men from the mine came tc
town last night and after the frs;
slide others started down. AS fast az
. the injured were taken out crews start
ed to town with them. hence it is diff
cult to determine who and how many
We're missing. And it is not known
who nor how many were in the crowd
of rescuers caught by the second slide
! Men from the min who came down
since the second slide seemed to think
the lead there will number Il dozen or
fifteen, or perhaps more.
A large party of men were ut work
shoveling in the slide of the morning
and when the second slide came they
had recovered seven bodies. At 2:15
p. III. word came to town to send nc
more men; that the storm was so Sc
we're that the work of rescue could only
be carried on under the most extreme
danger to the living and that the men
buried in the snow were all dead be
yond question.
1t is not known certainly how many
Of the rescuing party We're caught In
the second slide. All the men have
now come off the hill and no attempt
will be made to recover the bodies un
til the storm subsidies and the snow
settles.
Tue list of known dead follows: l.
ID. Stanley. Harry l.. Chase. w. g.
Gregory, Gus Swanson, George Rob
mer. IL. S. SuTImerland. Harry Golden
Gus Kraul. +. c. Clemmer. Wade
Crow. L. Bishop. Gus Won Finter, John
Il. Powell, Paul Dalpra.
The injured men are: Lee Carroll.
Stockton Smith, Knute Talson. John
Isakson, Charles Hall, Charles Goodo,
Ferdinando Zanzuki, Henry Paner.
Talk Halo. Jack Marshall. Jacob Gold.
en-. Jim Conlon. w. A. Latshaw.