The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-03-04
MACE AND BURKE WIPED OUT
BY AVALANCHE OF
SNOW.
LIST OF DEAD MAY GO TO 1875
Northern Pacific Work Train Dis
appears.-Hundreds of Rescuers
Working to Dig Out
Bodies.
BULLETIN.

SliuS dC MACE Is approximately o.
600 feet long and, save for a few
places, is packed as solid as ice.
A cold wind sweeping the can .
yon and impeding those who are
working to save few more lives. .
Those who have journey from
Wallace to Mace and Burke say
that the number of dead probably
never will be known accurately as
the huge slide can never be entire
ly removed.
Twelve dead bodies have been
recovered at Mace and 81 persons
are injured as a result of the slide.
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Wallace Idaho Hundreds of
Of men are digging frantically to re-
cover the IS to 125 victoms Of an
avalanche which buried many houses
at Mace, small hamlet five miles
from here.
Three bodies have been taken out
so far and others are reported in
sight. Owing to the nature Of the
soil, the work of digging is fraught
with great peril and it has been neces-
sary to timber the hillsides at several
points to prevent further slide.
1t will be many hours before the
number of deaths will be definitely
known. The slide came without
warning and telephone messages to
this city state that three box cars,
containing section gang Of the
Northern Pacific, were buried.
Mace is small town whose lines of
struggling cottages are built at the
bottom of a high mountain. The lines
of the Northern Pacific and Oregon
Railway and Navigation company,
run through the place. The big slide
came about 11:30 p. m. Sunday, while
everybody was asleep. A large Sec
ton of earth on top of the mountain
became dislodged and swept down.
ward with a roar that could be heard
in this city, five miles distant
Caught like rats, the residents of
the village had no chance to escape
and many were crushed in the debris
of their demolished houses.
The latest word from the scene Of
the disaster stated that 25 families,
comprising rs individuals, were
caught in the slide and that so other
men in the construction cars were
buried.
Mrs. H. A. Pascoe, wife of the SUI
perintendent of the Standard mine,
her son Edgar and daughter Inez,
are missing and are supposed to be
dead
The roar of the descending ava
lanche gave the alarm here and tele-
phone communication was imme-
diately established with Mace AS
soon as the extent of the calamity
was known, a relief train was made
up here and every available man hur-
ried to the scene. According to re-
ports, many of the houses are buried
to depth of so feet and it may be
week before the complete list of
victims can be obtained.
Seven hours later another slide
rushed down on the town of Burke,
crushing score of houses under thou
sands of tons of earth and snow.
Because of the larger population of
Burke, about 900, the houses are closer
together. Mothers hauled their chill
dren to the side hills, brothers
dragged little sisters to places of
safety, and when the slide struck
many of the homes were deserted by
fear-stricken women and children,
while the bread-providers were rescu-
ing injured at their stricken sister
town.
Old-timers in the Occur d'Alene dis
trict have been sounding daily warn
ing to Mace, Burke and Black Beal
that because of the record depth of
the snow, slides were imminent Fer
16 winters these towns have escaped
devastating slides, and so strong had
the confidence of mine residents be-
come that their home and families
were safe that no precautions were
taken.