Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-03
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

twenty-five families, consisting of prob
ably senty-five persons, were buried
in an avalanche last night special
train left Wallace last night for the
scene.
WALLA, WALLA, Wash, Feb. 2S.-l
The catastrophe at Mace occurred at
1880 last night, according to tele-
from Wallace. Idaho. and overwhelm-
ed the entire town of Mace, covering
the twenty-five families in the little
village under tons of snow and edbris
Rescue parties have gone from Wal
lace to the scene Residents in Wal
lace say the roar of the avalanche
could be distinctly heard there. Mace
is five miles from Wallace. The dis
bred were killed.
WALLACE. Idaho. Feb 2S.--An ava
lanche, which threatened the little
tcwn of Mace. five miles up the canon
from Wallace for two days, descended
last night about 1:13 o'clock. and
buried in its resistless path twenty
FIVE families, consisting of more than
100 souls.
How many of these victims are
dead will not be known until some
time this afternoon. and perhaps not
for many days, for reports tell of
snow filling the canon to a depth of
fifty to seventy-live feet
Superintendent Pascoe OF the Stand.
ard mine is missing, but child of his
was found alive.
Hundreds of men were awakened
by fire bells from their beds in Wal
lace as soon as the extent of the ca
trastrophe became known. Special
trains were made up for Mace. Hard.
ware merchants opened their estab-
lishmenis. and shovels, picks and
other implements were had for the
asking. Every able bodied man in Wal.
lace it was possible 10 secure was
hurried to the scene.
The little mining town of Mace lies
between PERCEPTIONS mountain sides,
a struggling line Of cottages in the
creek bottoms. bisected by lines of
the Northern Pacific and the Oregon
Railroad and Navigation companies
It's one industry is mining. its big
mine being the Standard. With scarce
~ dividing line perceptible. the
towns OF Black Bear, Gem, Mace and
Burke form a long string of houses
for six miles. Mace has permanent
population of 100. all of which with the
exception of a few storekeepers. and
chool teachers, are in the employ of
the mine
The following is a list of dead bodies
recovered up to this morning: Ed
ward Kittrell, miner, and his wife
and Two babies Dick Moyel. Mrs Fen
nell. Mrs. George Farwell, A. J. Laird
and wife. Mrs. Carrie Hooper, Edgar
Pascoe, son of The Standard mine SUI
the superintendent. II. A Pascoe and
wife are missing and are supposed to
be dead.
Three box cars, containing fifty sec
ton men in the employ of the North
ern Pacific. were standing on the side
tracks when the slide occurred All
these men lost their lives.
Fifteen houses were swept away,
according 10 the latest Information.
Al the Mace boarding houses the
snow is thirty feet deep, and all the
flat from the boarding house to the
end of the town toward Burke is bur
led beneath the slide.
WALLACE. Idaho, Feb. 2S.-At 5 a
m this morning another slide rushed
down on the town of Burke, crushing a
score of houses under the thousands
of tons of earth and snow.
Fourteen bodies have been recover
ed already from the ruins of Mace,
sixteen dead being found al Burke, and
how many are still buried can only be
guessed at. There are number of
dead at Burke which may be even
larger than that at Mace. Every man
that can be spared from the rescue
work at Mace has been appealed to.
Doctors are being rushed from Wal
lace. Another special train leaves In
an hour, about O'Clock
WALLACE. Idaho, Feb. 2S.-At /
o'clock today the record is that the
two towns are wiped out. with the
dead extimaied al from 100 to 800
aud scores injured. This IL he story
of destruction in the Occur d'Alcnc
mining district.
SALT LAKE, Feb 2S.-A forty mil
lion dollar railway project. designed
to open up The west coast OF Mexico
has just been Incorporated in Della.
ware. This Is the statement made by
G. w. Bartch. former chief justice of
the Utah supreme court. who returned
from New York today.
The line is to connect Saltna Cruze
and Manzianillo and TO have steamer
connections from Acapulco to Cali.
fornia ports. Judge Bartsch says
large amount of eastern capital will
be behind the enterprise The new
corporation is to be known as the