Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-20
FIVE MINES ARE ISOLATED
Houses and Other Buildings Are
Carried Away.
'ELvE MEN KILLED IN SHENANDOAH
Boarding House in Which They Were Eat
ing Dinner Destroyed,
DAMAGE WILL REACH ONE MILLION
Exact Extent of the Destruction Of
Life and Property Cannot he
known for several
Days.


known Tor Several
Days.
DENVER, Col. March 1s.-By the loss
of twelve lives in snowslide near Silver
ton today the death roll resulting from
! the great storm of the past week in tho
San Juan mining district has been in
creased to at least fifteen.
At Siverton, at the Camp Bird mine. n
few miles from Ouray. ana at Coal Basis.
on the western slope hundreds OF miners,
their wives and their children are facing
starvation. Mills and otner mining prop
erty, estimated 20 be worm a million dol
lars, have been swept to destruction in
deep gulches. The cattle on thousand
hills are reduced to skin and bone.
On Cumbres Pass, the highest point on
the narrow-gauge from Durango TO Ala
mosa. trainload of passengers is
! rooned. dependent for warmth on a meager
supply OF coal in the engine tender and for
food on what hardy uountaineers
bring them with snowshoes.
Railroad traffic is paralyzed and tele-
phone and telegraphic communication is in
terrupted over at least half OF the state.
The body OF Edward Kleickner. a ranch
man. aged q years, was found today
|
from his home near Pagvsa Springs Colo.
Ernest Barnes. aged 80. who left Walden
Colo, on horseback in the blizzard last Fri
day has not been heard OF since and is
believed to have perished.
Miners Isolated.
OURAY, Colo. March 19.-Six hundred
miners employed in the various mines
within a radius OF twenty miles from
Ouray have been cut OFF from all COM
munications with the outside by the snow
slides
All the employees Of the Camp Bird mine
and mills. who took refuge in the tunnel
to escape spowslides have reached hero,
coming over the mountain on snowshoes.
They began arriving about o'clock this
morning and the last arrival did not reach
here until nightfaIl. Communication was
had today with the San Pedro. Atlas.
Bankers National and Revenue properties
and word received that the men employed
at those mines were safe. The wrecked
mill at the Camp Bird cannot be rebuilt
until the snow has been removed Word Is
awaited from tho directors in London be.
fore any plan OF action is started. In the,
! meantime the men may he returned to the
| mine and the ore stored until a new mill
is completed
, A telephone message from Siverton was
, received here tonight to the effect that
fourteen lives were lost in the Shenandoa
snowsnde. 1t was also reported that Ave
mills had been wrecked by slides. but the
names OF the companies owning the mills
p were not given.
y Twelve Men Killed.
SILVERTON, Colo. MaTch 19.-Tweive
y miners employed at the Shenandoah mine
: were caught by great snowside today
h and swept to their death. Their bodies
Y nave not yet been recovered Assistance
: has been summoned from silverton to help
d dig the victims from beneath the snow
The dead are
: JACOB THEBoLDT.
:. JESSE SHAW.
GUS HOSE.
PETER COLEBURG.
BERT ALBERT.
Z EDW.ARD slhK; formerly of ouray.
.sLAIE BkANTON.
= - GusrAVsoN
- MARGELO.
- PICOLLO.
ONE UNKNOWN.
According to a report received from Hows
ardsville the men were killed BY a snow
slide which struck the boarding house at
the mine when they were at dinner II Is
reported twenty-one men were caught i'm
the slide and that nine dug their way out
- more or less injured.
: The Shenandoah mine is located in the
u east slope of King Solomon mountain, In
:, Cunningham gulch, nine miles north from
u Silverton. All telephone wires to the sec.
&c tion north of Howardsville are out and
. communication with the mine is impossible.
The mine employs about seventy-five men
and is one OF the largest in the San JuAa
country.
The great storm. which began a week
ago. lifted today. The thermometer fell to
20 below zero last night and today dawned
a. t.g.-- Il
a week since trains left here and It will
le probably be several days before the Rio
n Grande line can be opened to Durango.
le The Gladstone and Northern has 9 larsa
is force clearing the line to Gladstone.
The financial loss by the destruction o.
Saturday OF the Green mountain mill and
" the Silver lake tramway line is estimated
10 at $4,000.
IS AIsmOsa Cut on.
ALAMOSA, Colo. March 19.-Not since
the terrible snowslide and blockade Of the
winter Of 1884. when the Denver & Rio
Grande branch road between Alamosa and
4 Durango was impossible for weeks. has
there been such trouble experienced In this
region as at the present No trains have
arrived from Durango for seven days and
every available man Is being taken 70 the
;, large snowslide on sCumbres hin. Six dead
- engines are showed in between this place
:, and Durango, also one of the big rotary
snow plows A rotary snow plow was sent
4. from salida today pushed by three engines
1t has been showing continuously for sew
eral days in the mountains west and south
- Of Alamosa and the canyons are full OF
v snow and in many places the tops Of tall
trees are just visible
Coal and eatables have been sent from
here 10 the working crews and goods are
being taken TO the snowed-in trains on
r Crumbes hill to keep the people there from
r. starving.
re Suffering Among Live stock.
e STERLING. Colo, March l9.-snow In
the range averages about twelve inches IN
depth and Is solidly packed. owing 10 ths
partial thaw OF Friday