The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-19
Feared That Score of Miners
Have Been Killed by Colo
RADIO Avalanches.
600 CUT OFF FROM
SUPPLIES OF FOOD
Million Dollars Damage Done by
! Rush of Snow in
Mountains.

Ouray, Col, March. l9.-Six hundred
miners employed in the various mines
within radius of twenty miles from
Ouray have been cut off from all COM
munications with the outside by the
twenty miners have lost their lives IN
the slides, but the exact number will
not be known for days. AS many as
twenty-five mines are completely
isolated. The damage may reach
100000. -
At the Camp Bird mine, which is four
miles from the Camp Bird mill, a snow
slide late last evening completely $50
lated fifty or more miners employed
there, and, as the provision house was
carried away, it is certain they are in
miners started to their rescue this morn
ing. -......-....
The body of William J. Cressey. the
Englishman who lost his life in the slide
at the Camp Bird mine, has been recov-
cred. -.. -. ...~
It is stated that there is sixty feet Of
snow at the high towers of the tramway
Of the Camp Bird, and the snow is very
deep all along the route of the tram
way. In the Imogene basin, the snow
is from $50 to 800 feet deep.
~ =. Many Snowslides.
Denver, March l9.-Fair weather
with rising temperature today followed
the severe snowstorm which has pre-
vailed over Colorado for full week
with brief intermissionb. Last night
was one of the coolest Of the winter
here, the temperature falling to FIVE
degrees below zero. At Cheyenne, Wyo.,
it was IL degrees below zero.
Many lsnowslides have already oc-
Cured in the mountains, but up to this
time there has been no heavy loss of
| life reported. The losses from destruc-
ton Of mine property in the vicinity Of
Ouray may amount to 100000 and
further damage is threatened at Ouray,
Telluride, Rico, Silverton and other min
! ing camps. -. : Z - "a -
Durango and the other towns in the
San Juan region in southwestern Colo
.radG have been cut off from eommuni-
4 cation by train nearly week, but the
management Of the Denver Rio
Grande railroad is making strenuous
efforts to reopen its branch line in that
! part Of the state, which is blockaded
by heavy snow on the Cumbres range.
The main transcontinental lines have
been kept open, and thru train service
has not been much delayed during the
storm. =: a.
The heavy snowfall in the mountains
insures an abundance of water for irri-
cation. +. r
Slides Close Mines.
. Telluride, Col, March ia snow
slide which came down yesterday at
the Liberty Bell mine, damaged the up
per terminal of the tramway and con
siderable trestlework. 1t ran in the
path Of the noted slide of Feb. %
1902, which killed nineteen men.
Many miners, remembering the slide
of four years ago, left the mine today
and came to Telluride. It will be only
question Of day or two until thu
Liberty Bell mill will be compelled tt
close down.
Another huge slide came down yes
} terday near the Bullion tunnel of the
Smuggler Union mines, damaging thu
: blacksmith s shop and other outbuild
On account Of the severity of The
; storm, which still continues, no effor
, was made today to recover, the body o1
August HELENE, who was killed Sat
urday night by the slide near Beal
: ~ Fate Is Unknown.
!, The telephone line to Ophir. station
is cut off and the fate Of the engine
and fanger crew hemmed in by slides
,
Slides are down all along the road *
Red Mountain, and the storm continue.
so that it is impossible to get thru. A
small slide came down at the Joker
tunnel last night, and tore out the
snowshed at the mouth of the tunnel.
The Revenue Tunnel, mine, mill ant
all the buildings, and the Atlas Banks
Consolidated and San Pedro are all said
to be in imminent danger. -. { =.
Worst in Twenty Years.
Alamosa, Col, March 19.-Not since
the snowslide and blockade Of the win
ter of 1884, when the Denver & Rit
Grande branch road between Alamoss
and Durango was impossible for weeks
in this region as at the present. NJ
trains have arrived from Durango fol
seven days, and every available man ii
being taken to the large snowslide OF
/ ECnmbres' hill zs=-,s -
[ Six dead engines are showed in be
tween this place and Durango, also on,
Of the big rotary snowplows. A rotary
snowplow was sent from Salida today
pushed by three engines. 1t has beer
showing continuously fof seven days II
the mountains west and south Of Ala
mOsa. and the canyons are full of snow
and in many places the tops of tai
trees are just visible. Coal and eat
dDl6S nave D66u SeuG from mere TO Gnt
! working crews, and goods are bein,
taken to the snowed-in trains on Cum
bres hill to keep the people there from
; starving. ...-s-z....!--e-. - y
Heaviest Ever Known.
Holyoke, Col, March 19.-The snow
. fall this month in northeastern Colorad
is the heaviest ever known in Marcl
> | in this part Of the state The rang
is covered with two feet of snow an,
the roads are well nigh impossible. TIL
supply of feed is almost exhausted
Railroad traffic is very irregular an
has been totally abandoned during til
worst of the storm. The Burlingto
line from Curtis to Cheyenne has bee
| covered with drifts from two to si
: feet deep for several days and no al
tempt will be made to open the lin
+ until the storm ceases.
r Washington, March 1S.-President Roosevelt
! second daughter. Miss Ethel: Secretary. Taft
. daughter Ethel, and daughter OF Gener
:. A. w. Greeley We're members Of a class
: about twenty-five young people who were COZ
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