Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-03-23
A FATAL SNOWSLIDE
One men KILLED And PROPERTY
DESTROYED NEAR OURAY, COL.
Camp Bird Mining Company .AiI De-
srroyed and Loss viii Be over $780,
ooo-T~o Men Injured and Gecond
Slide o. CURED in Evening, Making
Clean Sweep.

Pueblo, Col. March ia special
to the Chieftain from Ouray says:
A snowshde at l o'clock Sunday |
morning killed one man, injured two
and damaged property belonging to
the Camp Bird Mining company to the
extent of 100000. William Cressey
was caught in the slide and Instantly
killed, and William Albright and man
by the name of Stickney were injured,
but not seriously. The Camp Bird mill,
which had recently been installed at
cost of over 100000; the reading
room of the mill and IA strands of
tramway were carried down with the
slide.
In the evening a second snowsIide
occurred, which carried away the an
gle station, the shed building of the
Camp Bird dump, the blacksmith shop,
storeroom where all the provisions
we're kept and two miles of the camp
Bird tram.
The destruction of the provision
house cuts off the food supply. The
ESQ men employed in the mine, fearing
other slides might come, have taken
refuge in the tunnel. Preparations are
being made to rescue the men or get
provisions to them before the snow
makes it impossible to reach them.
In addition to those mentioned
above, slides have run among the
mountains around Ouray. The lines
of communication have been interrupt
ed to the following mines:
The Bankers National, employing 80
men; the Revenue, employing 200
the Camp Bird, employing $50 men.
and the San Pedro, employing 100
men.
During the afternoon a slide took
out the power line of the Animas Min
ing company Later second slide
took three quarters of mile Of the
Telluride power plant, which furnishes
power to the Revenue, San Pedro and
Atlas mines
The Camp Bird clubhouse was one
of the finest ever built for a similar
purpose. Camp Bird is the mine sold
by Thomas Walsh, the millionaire mine
owner, several years ago, to an Eng
fish company.
Later Report.
: Six hundred miners employed in the
! various mines within a radius of 2(
D miles from Ouray have been cut of
from all communication with the out
side, and it is known that some live
have been lost. AS many as % minel
are completely isolated.
The body of William J. Cressey, thu
Englishman who lost his life in tn,
l slide at the Camp Bird mill, has beer
recovered.
1t is feared that as many as 20 mel
have lost their lives in the slide, blu
the exact number will not be know
e for days. The damage may reach 81 4,
s 900, 900. 1t is said there is 60 feet o
d snow at the high tower of the tramwa.
= of the Camp Bird, and the snow is dee
y all along the route of the tramway.
+ In the Imogene basin the snow is 15
Q to 800 feet deep. This will proven
Q work on the reconstruction of tn
r tramway for several weeks. Machiner.
for rebuilding the mill and material
for the buildings can not be taken n
during the present condition of tn
l. road.
Latest Report.
e Denver Col, March 20.-By the los
y of 10 lives in a snow slide near Silver
n ton, the death list resulting from tn
IS great storm of last week in the Sal
d Juan mining district has been increas
ed to at Toast 10.
At Silverton, at the camp Bird mine
few miles from Ouray, and at Goa
- Basin, ON the western slope, hunderd
of miners. their wives and their child
y rem are facing starvation.
Mills and other mining property es
g timated to be worth 100000, hav
= been swept to destruction in dee
:, gulches.
Cattle on a thousand hills are reduc
y ed to skin and bones. Railroad traffi
10 is paralyzed and telephone and tele