The Lamar register., 1902-03-05
GHREE 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-fve, but
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 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
We're posted. calling for all the men
available to work on the slide. Snow
had been drizzling down for II day or.
two, probably Il foot of fresh snow ac-
cumulating up 10 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 few moments. but
the respite wis brief and by noon IL
was showing harder than ever.
Il. @. 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 ut the mine We're 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 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 disnster We're John
! Heron, manager of the Tom Boy Gold
Mines Company, and J. 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 mndineh
| and did not appear to know what they
We're doing.
| At 1:3O word came from the Liberty
Bell office asking that bulletins be
posted asking for all the help possible,
as II second slide had come down, cover
! ing the rescuinE party. ..
| The second slide. which came down
| in the track of the first and caught the
rescuing party. killed Harry Chase, J..
| s. Stanley. George Ro.iwer 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. hnute
4 Talson. John Isakson and Charles HAL.
A third slide came down and killed
! four. After the rescuers quit work
| and started for town Il party was
caught in a slide near the curve sta
tion on the tram, and four men were
killed. They We're: Gus Won Flinter,
John II. 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 to
town last night and after tha nrsa
slide others started down. As fast as
the injured were taken out crews start
ed to town with them, hence it Is dlni-
cult TO determine who and how many
were missing. And II 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 dozen or
fifteen or perhaps more. Is .yH 30.
a large party OF men We're At worn
shoveling in the slide OF the morning
and when the second slide came they
had recovered seven bodies. At 21h
d. IN. word came to town to send no
more men; that the storm was 80 Sc
we're that the work OF rescue could only
be carried on under the most extreme
danger 10 the living and that the men
buried in the snow We're all dead be
| yOnd question.
1t is not known certainly how many
of the rescuing party were caught In
the second slide. All the men have
now come of 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 Il. Chase. w. q.
Gregory, Gus Swanson, George Roh-
mer. Ii. s. Summerlnnd. Harry Golden,
Gus Kraul. +. C. Clemmer. Wade
Grow, f. Bishop. Gus Won Finter, John
II. Powell. Paul Dalpra.
The injured men nre: Lee Carroll.
Stockton Smith. Knute Talson. John
Isakson, Charles Hail. Charles Goodo.
Ferdinando Zanzuki, Henry Paner.
Talk Halo. Jack Marshall. Jacob Gold
en-, Jim Conlon, w. a. Latshaw.