Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-02-08
EIGHT PERISH IN
SNOW AVAIL ANCHE.
TOWN OF MONARCH, COLO, NEARLY
DEMOLISHED BY SLIDE FROM
MOUNTAIN.
BODIES TAKEN FROM DRIFT.
Entire Northwest Suffers in Grip of
Storm and Traffic Is Paralyzed
Many Meet Death.

SALIDA, Colo, Feb. 5.-Eight persons
were killed and fourteen injured, two
OF whom are expected to die, in the snow
slide that came down upon Monarch
from Monarch mountain last night. The
slide wrecked three buildings and partly
demolished a fourth
Today the dead bodies of the following
We're recovered from beneath the great
mass of snow and broken timbers:
MASON, FRED, owner of boarding house.
MASON, MRS. FRED.
MASON, BABY.
DOYLE, JOSEPH, miner, Denver.
EMERSON, JOHN, miner, Denver.
| GlLLERI, JOHN, miner, Monarch
SKINNER, STEPHEN, saloonkeeper, Mon
| arch.
One miner. name unknown, is missing.
The injured:
| die; William Schrader, 10 years old prob
ably fatal Florence Mason. aged II Years
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs Fred Mason, Will
recover.
One Imprisoned Alive
The slide came down with such force
as to continue its course across the main
street of Monarch, caving in the front of
IrFarrels hotel None of the guests or
employees was hurt. however.
James Iecky has been reached, but
is pinioned under big piece of timber
and cannot be eXtricated His son is
under the snow, but has rot been To-
| Gated.
The scenes at the place Of destruction
, and death are heartrending. Strong
men are weeping while they work at
resculng their townsmen, women ere
historical with grief and uncertainty and
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ents whom they realize are shut from
their sight by the avalanche of snow.
Monarch is an active mining camp,
the center of 4 rugged section of Chaffee
county, to which access at this time of
the year is difficult except by the single
track railroad which serves for ore trans
portation but which is now covered with
90 feet of snow in the cuts and gulches.
Northwest Is Snowbound
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Feb. 5,-Street
| thermometers today registered all the
way from - to 81 degrees below zero,
according to the exposure to the cold of
the instrument. A heavy fog partly OBJ
scured he sun i'll the early hours
The principal business portion of Coal
north of Bismarck, n. D., was destroyed
| by fire last night. The flames swept one
side of an entire block. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000.
A telephone report from Goodrich, a
! town OH the Darlington branch of the
| Northern Pacific, is to the effect that an
unknown woman and five children We're
| frozen to death there last night.
More than Il foot of snow now covers
the greater part of Nebraska.
Norman McDOugaIl, we'll known real
estate dealer and his little daughter We're
burned to death last night in a fire which
destroyed their home at Winnipeg, Mani
toba The father persisted i'll attempting
to rescue his daughter.
A homesteader named Meyers and a
sheep herder whose name is not known
froze to death in the blizzard in the
Cheyenne country, near Rapid City, 5. ID.
Another herder has been missing for
four days
Winter weather throughout northern
| Montana is now more severe than II has
| been at any time during the last twenty
seven years. Not a wheel is turning on
the main line of the Great Northern
railway. The temperature i'll Great
Falls for the past twentyfour hours has
ranged from ii to % below zero, III
Havre from % to Al below.
A coal famine is imminent in the IWIn
Cities, while at Duluth less than 100
miles from st. Paul, there are thousands
of tons Of coal. There is an immediate
famine in hard coal.
East Suffers from Drifts.
NEW YORK. Feb. 5.-For more than
| twenty-four hours New York has been
fast in the grip of fierce northeast
| snow storm. Ten inches of snow fell in
the twenty-four hours ending s a. M,
today, equalling the snow fall within any
similar period for several years: New
| England states all are experiencing Sc
we're snow storms.
Find Tragedy Under Snow.
Laborers clearing the snow from a
New York sidewalk uncovered the body
of young man who apparently had
committed suicide during the storm. In
the dead mans pockets was found a
note i'll a womans handwriting, ad-
dressed to Walter Phillips.
The traffic of greater Boston was seri-
ously hampered by the storm, which
brought with it the heaviest snow fall
of the winter there.
The worst accident of the day to be
reDorted was on the Providence divi-
sion of the New York, New Haven ana
Hartford railway, in which about a doz,
en- men and women were shaken up ana
| bruised but none, according TO nfSt re-
| ports was seriously injured.
binding snow storm driven by a
n ,rtheast gale of from 90 to 60
miles an hour made this morning one
| of the widest of the winter on the coast,
saws a Chatham, Mass, dispatch Coast
guards were doubled but the storm was
beyond the inner line of breakers SIM,
liar conditions prevailed at Highland
/ Light Mass.
The wild storm had disastrous Ell
feet on traffic both on the steam INES
and trolley roads all over the state or
Connecticut. In the western part OF the
state the storm developed into biz
| zard. and in Winsted and vicinity snow
had reached a depth of IL inches at )
! o'clock ooo
The heaviest snow since 1899 is re-
norted at Philadelphia.
NASHVILLE. Tenn, Feb. 5.-Ad-
vices from middle Tennessee report a
deep snow followed by bitter cold wealth
er. In Nashville, the ground IS covered
| with ice sleet, and snow.
Ten deaths were reported from Kan
sas. nine of which were caused by the
grip. A gale is raging and snow drift
/ ing The suffering among the poor there
is great.
Three Die in Stable Fire.
PELHAM, \. Y, Feb. 5.-Mrs. Rich
ard Vaughan. wife of a stable keeper,
an infant and II. NJ. Mitchell lost their
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