The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-03-23
A FATAL SNOWSLIDE
one men KILLED And PROPERTY
DESTROYED NEAR OURAY, COL.
Camp Bird Mining Company .AiIi De-
stroyed and Loss Will Be Over $780,
ooo-TNo Men Injured and Seeono
Slide Occurred in Evening, Making
a Clean Sweep.

Pueblo, Col, March ia special
to the Chieftain from Ouray says:
A snowslide at / O'CLOCK sunday
morning killed one man, injured TWO
and damaged property belonging u
the Camp Bird Mining company to the
extent of $780, 900. William Cressey
was caught in the slide and Instantly
killed. and William Albright n a man
by the name of Stickney were injured,
hut not seriously. The Camp Bird nill,
which had recently been installed at
a cost of over $500, 900; the reading
room of the mill and IA strands OF
were carried down with the
slide.
In the evening a second snoWsIde
occurred, which carried away the an
gle station, the shed building OF the
Camp Bird dump, the blacksmith shop,
storeroom where all the provisions
were kept and two miles of the camp
Bird tram.
The destruction OF the provision
house cuts off the food supply. The
$50 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 u 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
men; the Atlas, employing 16 men;
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 a second slide
took three quarters of a mile of the
Telluride power plant, which furnishes
power to the Revenue, San Pedro and
Atlas mines
The Camp Bird clubhouse was n
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 90
miles from Ouray have been cut off
from all communication with the out
side, and it is known that some lives
have been lost. AS many as 90 mines
are completely isolated.
The body of William j. Cressey, the
Englishman who lost his life in the
slide at the Camp Bird mill, has been
recovered.
1t is feared that as many as 20 men
have lost their lives in the slide, but
the exact number will not be known
for days. The damage may reach ST.
900 900. 1t is said there is so feet of
snow at the high tower of the tramway
Of the Camp Bird, and the snow is deep
all along the route of the tramway.
In the Imogene basin the snow is $50
to 800 feet deep. This will prevent
work on the reconstruction of the
oJ " oOFOAa nOChbs mdOhAlOly
for rebuilding the mill and materials
for the buildings can not be taken up
during the present condition of the
road.
Latest Report.
Denver, Col, March 20.-By the loss
of 10 lives in a snow slide heal Silver
ton, the death list resulting from the
great storm of last week in the San
Juan mining district has been increas-
ed to at loast 10.
AT Silverton, at the camp Bird mine,
a few miles from Ouray, and at coal
Basin, on the western slope, hundreds
Of miners. their wives and their child
rem are facing starvation.
Mills and other mining property es-
timated to be worth 81, 200, 900, have
been swept to destruction in deep
gulohes.
Cattle on a thousand hills are reduc-
ed to skin and bones. Railroad traffic
is paralyzed and telephone and tele-
graphic communication is i~nterrupted