Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-03-05
NEW DISASTERS
IN NORTHWEST
Avalanche Buries Two Snow
Plows and Their Crews
! in Rogers Pass
ONE HUNDRED LIVES LOST
Men Were Clearing Away Small
Snow Slide of Evening
Before.


Revelstoke, British Columbia says
that between 60 and 100 lives We're
lost in snow slide that buried two
rotary snow plOws in Rogers pass two
miles east of Glacier at one o'clock
this morning. A small slide occurred
at six o'clock last evening and the
men were clearing the line when a sec
ond avalanche swept down the noun
tain and engulfed both crews. Details
are lacking. Rescue parties have
been sent from Revelstoke.
May Be Safe Under Snow.
Winnipeg, March 5.-The road off.
cials say that probably twenty per-
sons were killed in a snow slide near
Revelstoke, B. C. There is bare
chance however, that the supposed
victims may be safe under the snow
shed.
List of Victims Augmented.
Wellington, March 5.-The slow and
laborious work of exhuming the bod.
les of the Wellington avalanche vic
tins was resumed at daybreak and
the list of forty-eight SO far recov
cred is expected to be materially aug
mented during the day. There still
remain SO bodies of passengers and
irailroad men and those of an unaScer-
tanned number of laborers in the snow
tomb and it probably will be many
days before the last Of these is taken
out.
Danger from a second slide is i'm
minent. The snow back of the hotel
is as high as a roof, but large force
lis working desperately to clear the
tracks SO the wrecking derricks may
be brought through. Great tree
trunks were carried down by the
| snow and are so entangled with the
wreckage of cars that it is almost i'm
possible to get at the bodies at pres
: ent.
Flood About Over.
Seattle, March 5.-The weathe
. bureau believes that the floods in tn
northwest are ended Last night ther'
was a light frost at Seattle and
hard freeze in the mountains. Al
l rivers are falling rapidly today. Th'
Northern Pacific will resume its reg
ular train schedule. The Milwaukee
and St. Paul road expects to have it
| line through the mountains clear in
few days.
Miles of Railroad Washed Out.
Ogden, Utah, March 5.-Local raj
road officials stated today that it wi
be at least ten days before the wasf
outs in Palisade canon on the Soutl
ern Pacific can be temporarily repair
} ed to allow the resumption of owe
land traffic. From Palisade to Bet
wave, seventeen miles, the Souther
Pacific is a mass of wreckage, wit
bridges destroyed or weakened an
the roadbed obliterated. The Wester
+ Pacific which parallels the Souther
Pacific, through the Humbold vale
is destroyed for miles. The water
&C of the Humbold river are receding.
Worst Night of All.
Vancouver, B. c., March Sin
snow slide early this morning betwee
Rogers Pass station and Glacier, c
l. the Canadian Pacific in the Rocl
q mountains, fifty men were killed. A
), the victims were workmen on IL
: railroad and more than half of the
. were Japanese. The men were clea
n ing away a small slide that had con
d down early in the evening. They we
J. working rotary against it when
= tremendous slide carried them al
the rotary into the canyon belo
At first it was believed that hundr'
p were killed, but during the ear
e morning it was found that many h;
50 escaped. All passenger trains a
II safe, though it probably will be d.
ie or two before they will be able to pa
- where the slide occurred. Last mig
u was one of the worst ever experienc
W on any railway section of the Can
~ dian Rockies. There was a hea
storm of rain and sleet and sor
=. times snow.
~ Vancouver, March 5.-Hundreds
M od thousands of tons of other debris
~. the wake of the avalanche bounded
10. a huge height and half filled the vail
if of Bear creek, hundreds of feet belo
es Little hope is entertained that any
M the men in the pathway of the az
i'd lanche escaped alive. The bodies
an many victims probably were swept
mt to the canyon and may not be recov'
nd ed until the summer melts the sno
ill Conductor Buckley and Engineer Pt
he lips, of the work train, are among t
MS killed. The slide was tremendo
mt with roar like a thousand thund
ne bolts crashing in unison. 1t leap
'ol from shelf to shelf from its starti
er place high up in the mountains, =,
er roofing and carrying with it a gre
of mass of ice, trees and boulders. T
tracks were buried.