Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-06
Fourteen Also Injured in Ava
Ianche of Snow.
RESCUE TRAINS TO SCENE
Physicians and Nurses Carefully
Searching Mass of Debris.
TRACKS STILL ARE BLOCKED
Bodies of Many Victims Of Catas-
trophe in British Columbia May
Have Been Swept Into Canyon.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, March 5-At 3
o'clock tonight Canadian Pacific oa-
cials announced that ninety.two -
met death and fourteen injured were In
the hospital, a result Of the avn
lanche at Rogers pass.
VANCOUVER B. c.. March 6.-SAxty-
two men who were engaged IN clearing
the Canadian Pacific IN Rogers Pass at
the summit OF Selkrk range were en-
entombed by an avalanche early today
and all are probably dead
The accident occurred near a snow
shed one mile west OF Rogers Pass and
at the actual summit Of the Selkfrks. As
soon as the news reached Revelstoke a
relief train conveying physicians and
nurses and more than 200 railway men
and others staNe6 = Rogers Pass. The
scene Of the accident was reached at 2
O'Clock this morning, when the task of
digging in the tangled mass of debris In
the hope Of finding a few survivors was
commenced with vfgor.
Help From Calgary.
Calgary made an equally prompt re-
sponse. 1t also sent a special relief train
with 125 workmen, as well as nurses and
doctors. Til special arrived at Rogers
Pass at 10 o'clock this morning. Act
ing Supt Fitzpatrick of the Pacific dtyf-
sion Of the Canadian Pacific railway
left Vancouver today for the scene Of the
accident.
The news of the disaster was flashed
oy zone telegraph operator as a wayside
station mile distant
railway officials expect that an least
forty-eight hours will elapse before the
line can be cleared. The work e attended
WIN great danger, as another slide NAV
descend at any moment Little hone is
entertained that any OF the men IN <he
pathway of the avalanche escaped alive
Inc bodies of many OF the yictirna wsra
PROBABLY swept into the canyon and may
not be recovered until summer rmalts the
snow. Six hundred men are now dir
ging out the track from under The snocv
ana debris The latest careful estimate
connrms the previous report that dfty n1ln
were killed by the avalanche.
General Managers Statement.
WINNIPEG. Manitoba, Marc, 5-r,.r-
sral Manager Bury of the Canadian Pa
cific railway issued the following .tat.-
ment relative to the Rogers Pass snow
slide:
AT 30 last night. one mile west OF
Rogers Pass. B. c., on the Canadian Pa
cific railway, snow train consisting OF
rotary plow, locomotive and a number of
gangs OF men. totaling 100. were clearing
away a snowslide, when a fresh slide
came down, burying the snow train. Some
escaped. but how many is not known as
the slide carried awhy the telegraph
wires.
"A relief train Of two hundred men.
nurses and doctors was at once sent out
from Revelstoke, forty-five miles from
the point Of the slide. and rescuers are
busy digging out the men. 1t is be-
lieved many will be saved. but il is inn
possible at present to say definitely
The Wilcox and Ymir mines near Mel
son. B. c.. have been badly damaged by
SnowSideS.
At the Wilcox mine the bunk house and
dining room, with the boilers and dyna-
mo plant and the superintendent house
were wrecked. The financial loss is
100000