Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-22
snowsIldes Claim Six Miners at
Alta and One in American
Fork Canyon.
BODIES ARE ALL RECOVERED.
Thrilling Stories From Members
OF Rescuing Parties Told to
The Deseret News.
,yov tho Terrible Avalanche Swept
Down and Over Inflated Camp
And How Death Followed.

90 far Salt Lake has had only to re-
iolce as the snow piled up deeper and
deeper on her eastern mountains, but
with the coming OF the January thaw
and the wet, heavy snowfall Of Friday.
the penalty OF having overheavy drifts
on mountain walls is to be paid. Snow
slides since the last snowfall have kill
ed six men at Alta. one at American
Fork. and resulted in the death of an
other at Eureka.
In bringing the dead from Alta sun
day afternoon the teamsters who broke
the road to Tanners fiat to help in the
rescue work, crossed over q slides, the
debris from which were piled up in the
bottom Of Little Cottonwood canyon.
FEAR MORE SLIDES.
With that none OF the famous old
slides have yet poured down their
volume Of snow. and miners at Alta
are living In fear of Il tremendous
slide IN the immediate future. Satur-
day night and Sunday night over 80
miners employed at the Columbus Con-
solldated mine deserted their cabins,
and carried their blankets into the
mine.
One OF them in talking to the News"
this morning OF the matter said. I'VE
don't sleep much In the mine, but 1t Is
powerful help to our conscience, for
We know when we lay down TO rest,
that nobody Is going TO have a chance
to shovel us out In the morning. and
II our cabins are carried down into the
creek, we know we still have our blan-
kels 10 sleep In
SITUATION rs SERIOUS.
The situation at the old Alta camp
today is serious The Continental Alta
mine, which IL at the head OF the cam
yon, cannot be reached by team. II
has depended not only for Its coal sup
ply on its long tramway running down
the canyon 10 the Continental Alta mill.
six miles above Wasatch summer
resort, but for its food and supplies as
well Between 20 and 20 towers OF this
tam nave been demolished by a series
OF slides and it win probably take
some time 70 repair II. Twenty min
w dV eHPlpytu at the mine.
The Columbus Consolidated. further
down the canyon, and near the bottom
OF H. Is not Impaired, except that poles
vTrylhg electric wires from Its power
pant on the creek to the mine have
broken. 10
Men are at work today repairing the
aandse' ana expect to have the mine
ledQH In start
sA'y miners are employed at this
mine, and II Is not thought that any
rauction OF the force viii be made
IN TOWNS OLDEST SECTION.
The South Columbus mine across t,a
canyon bottom from the Columbus and
near the Albion has been the chief suf'
iefer so far. Its surface works hnve
peeh carried away and dumped I'm The
ueek as hnding wood. The Ross
Armnurst saloon, and the Mattison
poardlng house, which were struck nv
he silde with fatal results to six
.he sleeping occupants, between two
suu .hree o'clock Saturday morning
seIonged 10 this property, and are in
,e oluest section OF Alta. They have
III OH their present sites FOR over
o. seats ana this slide Is unusual. The
,uhuperlor slide, the Toledo slide and
s u rlagstan slide, all famous dam
nlahers, are considered In a dam
setous condition and liable to break
loose at any time. ''""
en- long battle with the heaped snow
tinuay morning, to dig out those
Ioon ~ the boarding house and an
az NueIe were many elements OF he
~ sacIlnce recorded by the witnesses
sau participants, When the four men
s anu uied In the boarding house were
analiy located large holes I'm the snow
.1u.u their heads Indicated how thev
,ra .ousnt 70 tear away the Ice mack
eftor around them and had finally died
ssir. lrultless struggle to free Them
es' probably from suffocation.
NAMES OF THE VICTIMS
tnose who died IN the boardnq.bouso
Iohn bennett George Claybourne
wsr n erickson. and William Powell
roor, uus OUT OF the wrecked west he'd
a raso at LID o'clock Saturday. inter-
con,,aung party of 60 miners had dug
inr MY from O'Clock In the morn,
inc h, Two OF them had been sleen-
cam peo on the floor when the slide
The ,, anu the two were on a bedstead
across "oe mad rushed the bedstead
mar 'ne room on top of the two
MAJ vi, 1l the floor and when the sno,y
thsrIp ' on IN over both parties. burving
noya ~ ieet deep before thew cou,5
,lsa ,r Aiter that each one had strrg
snd ". W. ne finally died OF suffocation
the "a ~ nus work had resulted In was
None 80 's OF space about his head
themvsJI, mem had had time to loose
the snow rom The bed clothes before
THREE ESCAPE MARvELousry
Js n. we H saloon where John Nrurnnv an,
who uIay We're killed, were three ,na,'
prietos afped--Ross Armburst, Tho nro
iAs u, ypnnny Baker. HIS partner ana
oysrr'en nu1rlcks, who was stopping ,hara
Arn,h,ut When the slide cav
psLl,ourst, who was sIesnine 'at, ,
out bs, was awakened IN time to craw,
found 1T ne was suffocated. ma no
him only three feet of snow ova r
esr.b,.. ne was attired only in an nm
N M out he turned right aronnd
ana nnszard, which was stir sayare
rscn,ss uoWh to his partner Asta.
dow MN, the two OF tho,, A.
found .., Zee Hendricks, whom ,haS
Murns, ni alive. Finally they reachoyJ
10 ,ba,y ana Gray, but when thsy go,
10Th dead. N "o iate' as they We're
a VETERAN MINER
colsnSy,,'w was a veteran miner o, N.