The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-03-22
SAOWSL. DES KILL MINERS
ST. HUNDRED WORKERS ARE CUT
OFF FROM THE WORLD BY
AN AVALANCHE
LOSS MAY REACH MILLION
Twenty-Five Shafts Are Isolated and
Number of Dead Will Not Be As
certained for Days.

ioi Dayo'
( OURAY. Colo. March 19-Six hun
4 drrd miners employed III the various
! mines within n radius of twenty miles
/ from Duray have been cut off FROM ali
communications with the outside by the
! SnowSlidcs. Ii is feared as many as
twenty miners have lost their lives, but
the exact number will not he known for
days. As many rs twenty-five mines are
completely isolated. The damage may
reach Sl,uOOOUO.
Miners in Starvation Danger.
\ snowslidc late last evening ut Camp
Bird mill completely isolated fifty or
more miners employ ed there and as the
provision house was carried away II Is
Certain they are in urgent need OF food.
y party ui 200 miners started to their
rescue this morning.
The body of William J. trcsSey. the
EnglShman who lost his life i'll the slide
at the Camp Bird mill, has been re
. covered.
Snow 500 Feet Deep.
1t is said there are 90 feet OF snow
at the high tower of the tramWay "t
Camp Bird, and the snow is deep ali
along the route. In the lmogcnc UaSiu.
F''h - 4i''ii -, ~ 49, ''N' ~ e.
This will prevent work on the recon,truc-
tiOn ut the tramWay for several weeks.
Tn" first move at Camp Rlrl prob
ably viii be To repair power lines winch
are all out This will require several
days and there will be- no output from
en-, '''',,' .i,.' 'e ''''' - ''''''' "'' 80
Where Is Relief Train?
The telephone line TO Ophjr station j.
cat off and til" location of the engine
aud Hanger crew, hcmmcd IN by slides
rear Vpmr i4op is not known.
:, SLdI~ are town az "I"nE 'I' ROAD I"
frd N"llhIln ana me storm c"UllhHH"
50 thai it Is mpoSsihI" t" gel through
'ANn'! i"%i u&ht ana TORE OUT 'hr SNOW
sI,n W IA" mourn oI inc tunnel
,r Jin"s ana ,ho "' Hti,. ngn,
ron>ulisfnd and San Pedro are all COM.
Grr,d to be in imminent danger.
NJ r~,,~, e.. co,.,, ~,
no i'1'"S lO' @e'e" pays
AIANOSA. Col. March 1g--Not
since the ~Govs.idr and blockade OF the
winter of 1851. when the Denver 4 Rio
Gradr branch road between Namu>a
and Durango WAS imnassablr for veal
las flnrr noon Su.h tr,ulle r,fari,u,..I
IN mi. rr,,inn 1s NJ nh, rrpsrp,
No Trains l;,yr arrived FROM, Dur.r-.-.,
fox snyru days and every available man
rs hr'h= iahru I" ~" large Nh""~"ne "u
Uwh!r, nun HIN dGid engines a"
showed III between l'hS pIn'r Hnt l'''-
range, Also one OF the hi- rotary snow
rD"W~, rotary SNOW pillow WIS ~rh'
from SaIida today, pushed by three en-
gnoS
Snow Covers Tree-ICFs.
II has been showing continuously for
seven DAVIS i'm il. mountains Yves, and
sontI 81 \I,n,osa and rb" canon. ar, f"lI
or snow and IN lnauy places The tons OF
ran trnrs orr iusr visible
horn. ~, thn v-or,iu. crews and %, nJ., g,...
Ln;rr taEcn Ia thr showed i'm trains CON
i'rurrrc,' lin. to i,,rp the people n...r
from >tayyir-
Railways Almost Impossible.
UOIYOKE. Colo.. March 1o.-Thr
snowfall 50 far this month in northeast
nIu C,lnrlIr i tIlr heaviest over known
i'm March, Roads are almost impas~u.u
m, ~uunly ug food is almost exhausted.
HALLWAY traffic was totally ahaudn.od
during HE worst of the storm The
Bur,uslnu line from Curtis to Cheyenne
ha< hom covered with drifts from t,o
- >,> ~, H. ,,,,Io ~, ,nn H." NIX
,,,''i 4. s,.,,,,, ,..,.n.
Repeat Awful Slide OF 1904
TELLURIDE, Colo, Marca IN
,unv~ldr which camc down yesterday %.
rr Liberty Bell mine DANA Grd th" upnur
terminal Of the tramw0y and coGN.dur-
able trasllr work 1t ran in thc pG'h Of
the noted Slide of February -, NO..
which killed nineteen mcu. Many mla-
nr-, remembering the slide of -four years
ago. left the mine today and came "a