The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-03-22
SNOW is $50 TO
800 FEET Deep
More Than 600 Miners Cut
Off BY Giant Slides In
the Mountains.
ONE SLIDE KILLS TWELVE
Fate of the isolated Men VIII Not 81
Known for Several Days-Twenty-
Five Mines Damaged oroba-
bly, s1,ooo,o oo.

of twelve lives in q SnoWsllde near Sill
yerton, yesterday the death roll result
ing from the great storm of the past
week in the San Juan mining districts
has been increased to at least fifteen.
At Silvertcn, at the Camp Bird mine,
a few miles from Ouray. and at Coal
Basin, IN the western slope, hundreds
of miners, their wives ana chlldren afe
facing ~StarvatiOn.
Mills and other mining property esss
timated to be worth 81, 600, 900 have been
swept to destruction in deep gulches'
The cattle On q thousand hills are re-
duced to skin and bones.
IN Cumbres pass, the highest point
on the narrow guage road from Du'
range to AlamOSa, a trainload OF pas
sengers is marooned, dependent fol
warmth on a meager supply of coal in
the engine tender, and for food on what
hardy mountaineers can bring them
with snoWshOeS.
Railroad traffic is paralyzed and tele-
phone and Geographic communication
is interrupted over at least half of the
state.
The body of Edward Kleickner, a
~ranchman, aged 27 years.. was found to-
day frozen stiff in the road within three
miles of his home near Pagosa Springs,
Colo.
Ernest Barnes. aged 20, who left Wal
den, Colo, on horseback in the blizzard
last Friday, has not been heard of
since and is believed to have persisted.
Twelve Lose Their Lives.
Silverton, Colo, March 20.-Twelve
miners employed at the Shenandoah
mines were caught by a great snow
slide yesterday and swept to their
deaths. Their bodies have not pet been
recovered.
The dead are:
JACOB THEBOLDT.
JESSE SHAW.
GUS HOISE.
PETER COLEBURG.
BERT ALBERT.
EDWARD KIRK, formerly OF Ouray.
SLATE" BRANTON.
EMIL BOSS.
- GUSTAVSON.
- MARGELO.
- PICOLLO.
ONE UNKNOWN.
a man who escaped hurried IN to
Howardsville, three miles down the
gulch and ~telephoned to Silverton for
help.
TIL Shenandoah mine is located on
the east slope of King solomon noun
tain, in Cunningham gulch, nine miles
Horth from Silverton. All telephone
wires to the section north of Towards
vile are out and communication with
the mine is impossible. The min en-
ploys about seventy-five men and Is
one of the largest in the San TAI
country.
The great storm which began a
week ago here lifted. The thermometer
fell to 20 degrees below zero. 1t has
been q week since trains left here, and
it probably will be several days before
the Rio Grande line car be opened to
Durango.
The Gladstone and Northern has a
large force clearing the line to Glad
stone.
Ouray, Colo. March 21.-Six hundred
miners employed in various mines
within Il radius of twenty miles from
Ouray have been cut off from al COM
munication with the outside by snow
slides.
1t is feared as nan as twenty min
ers lost their lives in the slides. but the
exact number will not be known for
days.
Twenty-Five mines are completely 1so-
lated. The anag may reach $1,000, 0UO.
Provision House Carried Down.
At Camp Bird mine q snoWslide last
night completely isolated fifty or more
miners employed there, and as the pro-
vision house was carried away. it is
certain they are in urgent need of
food.
In Imogene basin snow is from $50 to
500 feet deep. This will prevent work
on reconstruction Of the tramWay for
several weeks.
Miners DESERVING.
Telluride, Colo, March ia snow
slide which came down yesterday at
the Liberty Bell mine damaged the up
per terminal tramWay and consider
able trestle work. Many miners, re-
Wondering the terrible slide Of four
years ago, left the mine today and
came to Telluride. On account of the
severity of the storm, which still con-
tinues, no effort will be made to recover
the body Of August HELENE, who was
killed Saturday by a slide near Bear
Creek.
The telephone line to Ophir station
Is cut Off and the fate Of the engine
and Flagler crew, hemmed in by
slides near the Ophir loop. is not
known. Slides are coming down all
along the road to Red mountain and
this storm continues SO that it is i'm
possible to get through.
Clearing Weather.
Denver, Colo, March 19.-Fair
weather with rising temperature today
followed a sever snow storm which
has prevailed over Colorado for a week
with brief intermissions
Last, night was one of the coolest OF
the winter here. the temperature fall
ing to 6 degrees below zero. At Chey-
enne, Wyo, it was IL degrees.
Losses from destruction of mine
property in the vicinity of Ouray may
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