Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-28
Mace, Idaho, Nearly Wiped Out
While Burke Has Great
Disaster.
THIRTY BODIES RECOVERED.
Number of Lives Lost Unknown,
But 1t Is Feared 1t May be
Fifty or Sixty.
Old Timers Sounded Warning Daily
Thousand Men Rushed From Wal
lace to Do Rescue Work.

Spokane, Wash, Feb 2S.-In swift
succession two terrible disasters have
carried death and dismay TO the min
ing towns OF the rich Coeur dAlene
district, in northern Idaho. At 10: 35
o'clock last night a snowslide swept
down the mountain side, striking the
little town of Mace and burying %
houses and their sleeping occupants
in \ mass OF snow, Ice and wreckage
at the bottom of the canyon AT $50
am. another slide rushed down on the
town of Burke, crushing a score of
houses under thousands of tons of earth
and snow,
Fourteen bodies have been recov-
cred already from the ruins of Mace:
16 dead have been found at Burke.
and how many are still buried can
only be guessed at
1t is feared so OF so lives have been
lost.
There is fear that the number of
dead at Burke 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 Wallace and
another special train leaves in an
hour
From the foot of the Anchor mine
plant to the Catholic church about half
a mile. the slide is 80 feet deep.
SPREADIG THE NEWS.
When the alarm spread through tho
mining camp that Mace had been al
Most wiped out by landslide, mothers.
wives and children of miners employed
at the Hecla, Hercules, Anchor. and
caretakers at the old Tiger-Poorman
mine began to seek places OF safety.
Wives and families of miners who had
responded to appeals from Mace were
unable to move and these may have
been buried in the snow.
Because of the larger population of
Burke, about 900. the houses are closer
together.
Children hauled their mothers to the
sidehills; brothers literally dragged
little sisters to places of safe
ty. and when the slide struck many of
the homes were deserted by fcar-striclk-
en- women and children, while the bread
providers were rescuing injured at the
stricken sister town.
Oldt!mers in the Coeur d'Alene dis
tr1ct have been sounding daily warn
lngs 10 Mace, Burke and Black Bear
saying that on account of the depth OF
the snow slides were imminent For
10 years these towns have ESCAPED de-
VastatinS slides and so strong had the
confidence of the miner residents be.
come in the conviction that their homes
and FAMILIES were safe that no precau-
tion had been taken
The bodies of tho following have been
recovered by the 900 men sent to Mace
from Wallace, the Hecla and Hercules
mines and smaller properties in that
vicinity:
BODIES RECOVERED.
l. H. Pascoe. superintendent of tho
Standard mine.
Ira H. Pascoe, son of Standard super
intendent
Eddie Pascoe
Inez Pascoc.
Mrs. George Fernwell
Mrs. A. r. Leard.
John Fenncll.
Mrs. Ed Kettrell and two children.
Thompson. section foreman of the
" X. & N, buried under car in ten
feet of water in the river.
THE RESCUED.
These I'VE been rescued, some
seriously injured;
Mr and Mrs. G.. Duncan.
MI and Mrs. Bert Barnett.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Brand.
Mrs. Abe Kettrell and son.
Mrs. George Hooper
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cohn.
Mrs. l. H Pascoe.
Tom Flannigan
Mr.. and Mrs, Paul Edwards and
four children.
c, r. Hubble.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Champagne.
Leroy Hooper
Mrs. Carrie Hooper. reported dead
at first.
ThIrty-fve Italians, sleeping in an
outfit car on the Northern Pacific
siding. who were swept away with
their car in the bottom of the canyon.
used the tools in their car to dig
themselves out At 4 o'clock this
morning all but one laborer had been
accounted for
Superintendent and Mrs. / II. Pas
coe Of the Standard mine in which
property large majority OF the male
residents of Mace are employed, were
asleep when their home was crushed
as an egg-shell. two sons and
daughter being instantly killed MT
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