The Springfield herald., 1902-03-07
|kREE SNOW SLIDES s71ao.s : y 1j...l' ,...,.
KILL WLLURIDE MINERS

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- - :. -niEt $40
could be secured as'to the extent of the
awful disaster d gui HHffF
& First reports placed the dead at all
the way from tfty to seventy five, but
It is now thoIiEht the death list will
not exceed twenty. At noon five dead
bodis hid been recovered. Five of the
injured had also been brought to town
and placed in the hospital Most of
those who escaped serious injury came
to towniwith the injured, and the dead.
Just before noon bulletins over the
signature of the Tom Boy company
We're. posted calling for all the men
available to work on the slide. Snow
had been dri2Ziing down Tor Ii day OF
,rwo probably II foot of fresh snow ac-
cumulating up 10 last night Just be
fore midnight the snow began falling
~ earnest>nnd from midnight to noon
to-day nearly Two feet had fallen.
About IL o'clock the. clouds lightened
up slightly and showed II disposition %
break 4lWsf.: The snow came down
less heavily for II few moments. but
THE respite WAS brief and by noon IL
WIS showing harder than ever.
II. g. Clemmer. it As said. was sitting
at Ills desk and making out the time OF
crash came and all the books Of the
company recording the names of those
|;Sn the payroll ut the mine were de-
kstroyed. .sss. -
While at. this hour 1t is positively
known that fourteen men are Killed.
whose na Ines are given below, 1t " be-
lieved BY many that with THE advent
|iefssPrlhg, when the snow. melts, there
will. be some startling disclosures in
Coinet Greek g,irch. Tie company can
not tell from It's books show many men
are;lost. for the reason that the miners
who survived .haye not exported.
u. Apaepg those who ut once. rushed to
ithe scene OF the disaster were John
! Heron manager of the Tom BOY Gold
Mines Company. and j. W. Lyons. for
merly foreman, 6r tile 1'dhM Boy mill. .
The latter was 'riught'm the edges
Of the second slide. which broke some.
what higher zip the'Ih6untain and came
down. in the path, of tAe.4irst. lie says
some of the miners acted like madmen
and did not appear to Know wliat they
were doing. -f.'H
At 1:3o word came from the Liberty
Bell Office asking that bulletins be
posted askh& r.n-alE the.help possible,
as SECOND sfldehhd come'down, cover
Ing the i;esc,iing party. 90
The second slide. which GANG down
in the. track of the first and caught the
.rescuing party. killed Harry Chase. l..
Gregory. :. Only the, body of Chase was
recovered: ~ 3. ..Esf
The following received injuries more
on less serious in this slide:
Lee Carroll. Stockton Smith, Knute
Talson. John Isakson and Charles Hall.
! A third slide came down and killed
four. After the rescuers quit work
and started for. town party was
caught in a slide near the curve sta
tion on the tram, and four men were
killed. They We're: Gus Won EHnter.
John r.. Powell and Paul Palpra.
DIR. Allen was in this party and re
ceived injuries, but got out safe.
None. of these bodies We're recovered.
Several men frem the mine. came to
town last night Ahnd after. the first
slide others started down.. AS fast as
the injyred were taken ont crews start
7 ed TO r3wn with them, hence it is diff
cult to determine who and how many
were missing. And it is not known
who nor how many, were in the crowd
Men from the mihe who came down
.sihce the second slide seemed to think
the dead there will number a dozen or
Fifteen. or perhaps more.
A large party of men We're at work
shoyeling in the slide of the morning
and when the second slide. came they
had recovered seven bodies. AT 2:15
p. IN. word came to town to send no
moro men: that the storm was so So
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. F7t - -iT
lit is not known certainly how many
of the rescuing party were 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
settless -: s.. ....... -,.. ID.
The list OF Known dead follows: T..
d. Stanley. 1kffry Il. Chase, w. G.
Gregory. Gus Swanson, George Roh-
mer, H. S. Summerland. Harry Golden.
Gus Kraul f. q. Clemmer. Wade
Grow. Il. Bishop. Gus Won Finter, John
II. Powell. Paul Dalpra. ..a. ~
The injured men are: Lee Carroll.
Stockton Smith. Knute 1'alson,- John
Isakson, Charles Hall. Charles Goodo,
Ferdinando Zanznki, Henry Paner,
..falfli Halo. Jack Marshall, jacob Cold
en-. Jim Conlon, w. a. Latshaw.