The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-03-04
death IN
SNOWSLIDE
Mining Camp Enveloped by
Mountain Avalanche.
Narrowing Tales Related by
Those Who Are Rescued
From Drift.

Spokane, Wash, Feb. 2S.-Twer-
ty -four are known TO be dead as this
result of the snow slides Sunday and
todey in the mining district of North
ern idaho
To the nineteen known TO have
persisted in the snow slides at Mace
and Burke, Idaho, last night and this
morning, are added three more who
died in a similar disaster abUur.
noon Sunday when the camp OF the
Carbonate Hill Mining Company az.
Mullan, Idaho, was destroyed. Two
more were killed at Dorsey. Idaho.
late this afternoon.
The fight against time and cold ar
Mace and at Burke has been wagst.
bravely and persistent by thie litde
amy of men who hope TO find under
the heaps of ruin in tho ravine scms
who have escaped death.
The rescurers have dug frantically
for many hours. Every available able
bodied man has been pressed into
service, old men and boys joining the
rescue forces. Mace is si-uaTod ca
the creek bed and the moun.,L ins riss
high on either side of town. Tho
main body OF the avalanche which
started from the top of Custer Noun
tain passed beyond the town and,
striking the opposite slope with ter
ritic force, rushed up 20 the oppO-
site mountain side. The canyon is fiji
Led TO a depth of from forty TO
fifty feet.
The Oamage to the town was done
by a branch of THE main slide, which
carried a construction train from the
track as it plunged into the ravine.
AS it rolled up the other side ii de-
molished the houses in It's path and
stopped a short distance beyond the
Pascoe hOma. The boarding hCuss OF
the Standard mines. whore about 300
miners We're sleeping, was missed by
l20 feet.
The first slide, which almost wiped
out the town of Mace, occurred az
1O:45 O'Clock Sunday night, white all
except the men on the night shift in
tina mine We're sleeping. The Burke
avalanche occurred at $50 O'Clock this
morning. That more lives wsre not
lost at Burke is due to Seaman 5.
Rowe, foreman of the Hecla mine.
Realizing the danger that thrsltened
the sleeping citizens of the town u
mile faUtehr up the Straam, he sent
Bert Clement to Burke 10 arouse the
inhabitants and urge them 70 seek
refuge.
Four of chose who lost their lives
at Burke were members OF the reScue
party that had been at work M night
at Mace.
Among the last TO be taken out OF
of the snow alive at Mace was Mrs.
George Hooper, an old woman who
lived on the outskirts OF the town.
She was buried thirteen feet under
the snow. and it took four hours to
rescue her. She had suffered from the
cold, but was not badly injured
AT the time the slide occund,"
said R. j. Mcleod, of Mullan, who
with his son, John A. Mcleod, was
rescued after being buried for two
hours. IL was sleeping in small
bunk room, just off the compressor.
My son was on shift at the compress
sor. was aroused from sleep when
he ran in TO the bunk room crying
papa, papa
THE slide struck the building with
great force, and We were buried under,
a whirling mass of snow and timbars-
MY son was knocked upon the bed
and lay upon me. With The exception
of my right hand | was unable to
move. worked this hand free and
TO scrspe away enough snow
TO give us air."
The little town of Burke, IL was
learned today, is buried fifty feet un-
der a mass OF snow and earth. The
slide Is 5000 feet long and complete
ly fills the canyon.
James Rodgers, who was supposed
to have persisted, was rescued at
Burke hate this afternoon. He had
been buried in the SNOW eight hours.