The Colorado statesman., 1907-02-09
MONARCH'S LOSS
SIX PERSONS KILLED AND AN
OTHER WILL DIE.
STORY OF THE AVALANCHE

| Slide and Ground to Pieces-Ad-
joining House Carried On Top Of
the Descending Snow.
Denver-A Republican special from
Salida Tuesday night says:
Following is a correct list of the vic
Tins of the snowslide that occurred at
Monarch last night:
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Mason.
Jack Emerson, son of Superintendent
Emerson of the Madonna mine.
Charles Gillett, miner.
Steve Skinner, saloon keeper.
Joseph Boyle of Denver.
James Smith is badly injured and
will die.
Following is a list of those who
were buried in the slide, but were
taken out, some of them unconscious,
but all alive, and will recover:
Six children of Fred Mason.
Fred Schrader, wife and four chill
dren.
James Lecky and son, William, aged
fifteen.
- Griffith.
Jesse Smallwood.
The last two were reported to be
among the dead, but proved to be only
unconscious and were revived.
The slide occurred at 8: is last night
and while those who were awake said
it made great noise, they did not re-
alize their danger until too late.
The two-story building containing
. lA - y1-s, h.a
boarding house of Fred Mason was
completely demolished, not even a
piece of furniture being left intact.
The home of Fred Schrader, adjoin-
ing, was totally wrecked, but was car
the occupants were thrown out of bed
into the snow, none were seriously in
jared.
A hand was found protruding from
the snow by one of the rescuers and on
digging, the Oldest son of Mr. Schrader
was taken out, badly bruised but not
fatally injured.
Five children OF Fred Mason were
forcibly elected from the second story
of the hotel and covered with flying
snow, but were soon rescued little the
worse for their experience.
The baby of the family, a boy of
four, was given up for lost last night,
but this morning the little fellow was
found under a section of the roof,
snugly wrapped up in a feather bed
and fast asleep, wholly unconscious of
the awful danger he had escaped. He
was not injured in the least.
Mrs. Mason was the first one of
the dead to be taken out. She was
frightfully bruised and mutilated.
James Smith was next recovered
and though not dead, physicians say
he cannot live, as one of his ribs is
broken and forced through his lungs.
Steve Skinner was found on the floor
of his place of business with kt OF
beer on his body. The keg had evil
IDENTIFY been projected with great force,
striking the man on the head and driv-
ing his head through the floor. Brains
oozed from great fractures in the skull.
Faithful search for the body of Fred
Mason has not been successful and
there aer those who believe that ne
will be found alive.
The rescue party from Salida reached
the scene of the slide about 8 o'clock
this morning and had terrible expert
ence in the snow. An engine and one
coach brought two doctors, the mayor
of Salida, a photographer and num-
ber of citizens who happened to be on
hand. The train pulled out about l
o'clock. All were compelled to shovel
snow before the train reached Garfield.
two miles below the slide. From there
their path was up a steep gulch filled
with snow in some places to the depth
of eighteen feet. The road had been
kept open to some extent, but nearly
all the way the party waded in snow
up to their shoulders. But for the ex-
treme lightness of the snow they never
would have reached Monarch.
Though exhausted by their journey,
they rendered faithful assistance to
those who had worked all night and
assisted in taking out many of the bod
les. The dead were loaded on sleds,
taken to the train at Garfield and all
reached Salida at $50 tonight.
The little camp of about $50 people
has been almost deserted. The storm
still continues and other slides are
feared. Monarch was established in
1880, but the Oldest inhabitants do not
recall such a heavy snowfall as the
present, and it is feared that the mines
will be closed, as men cannot be in
duced to work when the danger is so