Gilpin observer., 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-ive, but
it is now thought the death list will
not exceed twenty. At noon five dead
bodis had 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 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
had been driZzling down for day or
two probably foot of fresh snow ac-
cumulating up to last night. Just be-
fore midnight the snow began falling
in earnest and from midnight to noon
| to-day nearly two feet had fallen.
| About II 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 was brief and by noon it
was showing harder than ever.
+. G. Clemmer. it is said, was sitting
ut 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 the payroll at the mine were de-
stroyed.
| While at this hour 1t is positively
| known that 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 Greek gulch. The company can
not tell from it's 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 We're 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 a 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.
S. 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
four. After the rescuers quit work
and started for town party was
caught in slide near the curve sta
ton on the tram, and four men were
killed. They were: Gus Won Flinter
John r. Powell and Paul Palpra.
DR.. Allen was in this party and re
ceived injuries, but got out safe.
None of these bodies were recovered
Several men from the mine came tC
town last night and after the FIRST
slide others started down. As fast as
the injured were taken out crews start
ed to town with them, hence it is diff
cult to determine who and how many
were missing. And it is not known
who nor how many We're In the crowd
of rescuers caught by the second slide
Men from the mine who came down
since the second slide seemed to think
the dead there will number a dozen or
fifteen. or perhaps more.
large party of men were at work
shoveling in the slide of the morning
and when the second slide came they
had recovered seven bodies. At 2:15
p. m. word came to town to send ne
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.
The list Of known dead follows: l.
ID. Stanley. Harry Z. Chase, w. G.
Gregory. Gus Swanson, George Rob
mer. II. S. Summerland. Harry Golden
Gus Kraul. +. G. Clemmer, Wade
Grow. f. 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
Ferdnando ZanZuki. Henry Paner
Talk Halo. Jack Marshall. Jacob Gold
. Ell. Jim COnlon, w. A. Latshaw.