The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-03-23

aged II years, was IOund TO-
day frozen stiff in the road within three
miles of his home near Pagosa Springs,
Colo.
Ernest Barnes, aged 20. who left Wal
den, Colo, on horseback in the blizzard
last Friday, has not been heard of
since and is believed to have persisted.
Twelve Lose Their Lives.
Silverton, Colo. March 20.-Twelve
miners employed at the Shenandoah
mines We're caught by a great snow-
slide yesterday n swept to their
deaths. Their bodies have not pet been
recovered.
The dead are:
JACOB THEBOLDT.
JESSE SHAW.
GUS HOISE.
PETER COLEBURG.
BERT ALBERT.
EDWARD KIRK, formerly Of Ouray.
SLATE" BRANTON.
EMIL BOSS.
- GUSTANSON.
- MARGELO.
- PICOLLO.
ONE UNKNOWN.
A man who escaped hurried IN to
Howardsville, three miles down h
gulch and ~telephoned to Silyerton for
help.
The Shenandoah mir Is located on
the east slope of King Solomon noun
cain, in Cunningham guich, nine miles
north from silverton. All telephone
wires to the section north Of Howards-
Vile are out and communication with
the mine is impossible. The mine en-
ploys about seventy-iive men and Is
one of the largest In the San Juan
country.
The great storm which began a
week ago here lifted. The thermometer
fell to 20 degrees below zero. 1t has
been a week since trains left here, and
1T probably will be several days before
Durango.
The Gladstone n Northern has a
large force clearing the line to Glad
stone.
Ouray, Colo, March 21.-Six hundred
miners employed in various mines
within a radius Of twenty miles from
munication with the outside by snow
slides. -
1t is. feared as many as twenty min
ers lost their lives in the slides. but the
exact number will not be known for
days.
twenty-five mines are completely iso-
lated. The damage may e =, ooo'o oo.
Provision House Carried Down.
At Camp Bird mine a snowslide last
night completely isolated fifty or more
miners employed there, and as h pro-
vision house was carried away, 1t 1s
certain they are In urgent need OF
food.
In Imogene basin snow is from $50 to
300 feet deep. This will prevent work
on reconstruction of the tramWay Tor
several weeks.
Miners Deserving.
Telluride, Colo, March ia snow
slide which came down yesterday at
the Liberty Bell mine damaged the up
per terminal tramway and consider
able trestle work. Many miners, re-
Wondering the terrible slide OF four
years ago, left the mine today n
came to Telluride. On account of the
severity OF the storm, which still con-
tinues. no effort will be made to recover
the body Of August HELENE, Who was
killed Saturday by a slide near Bear
| Creek.
The. telephone line to ophir station
is cut. or and the fate OF the engine
slides near the Ophir loop. is not
known. Slides are coming down all
along the road 20 Red mountain and
the storm continues so that 1t Is inn
/ possible to get through.
Clearing Weather.
Denver. Colo, March .a1s.-Fair
weather. with rising Temperature today
has prevailed over Colorado for a week
with brief intermtssions.
Last night was n Of the coolest of
the winter here, the temperature fall
ing to- degrees below zero. At Chey-
enne, Wye, 1t was 10 degrees.
Losses from destruction OF mine
property in the vicinity Of Ouray may
age Is threatened at Ouray, Telluride,
! Rico. Silverton and other mining