Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-05
fAssooIated Pressl

| WELLINGTON, wash, March A.
The men digging for bodies in the ava
lanche tomb made little progress, and
late this afternoon only 4s dead had
been brought out, leaving forty-dve
passengers and railroad men and an
unknown number OF laborers in the
gorge.
The searchers are working in the day
time only. The Great Northern today
sent In fifteen Alaskan sledges, on
which the bodies will be taken to a
train at skymomish, TO be carried to
Everett and Seattle. All the railroad
mems homes were at Everett.
Donald Cameron Gilmore, fireman, SO
years old, whose body has been recov-
cred formerly was a West Point cadet
and his mother is a prominent resident
of Santa Barbara, Cal.
Edgar Lennon of Hunters, Wash,
whose body and that of his wife have
been found, formerly was one of the
leading attorneys of Seattle and has
relatives and business connections in
Walla Walla.
Wounded In Hospital
All the wounded in the temporary
hospital here are recovering. They
probably will be taken to the big hotel
at Scenic Hot springs tomorrow.
OF 700 sacks of mail carried away
by the avalanche, only 100 have been
recovered. There is no trace OF one
| mail car and seven clerks and weigh
| ers. Some cars are known to be under
20 feet of trees, snow, earth and rocks.
The Great Northern is using all the
| resources at its command TO open the
track. Every man and every ploW
that can find a place to work are pusy
night and day. superintendent ONelii
estimates the actual loss to the road
by destruction of property at Slouo,-
600 The four electric motors now ly-
inc demolished under the snow were
valued at $250,O00.
More Slides Threaten
| Cold rain and increasing fear OF
snowslides added to the gloom OF Wel-
| lington today. Two bodies were sent
down the trail, and the other, wrapped
| in blankets, are in a railroad bulldlhg'
| Among the arrivals today We're num-
| her of friends and relatives OF VIC
| tins. a few of them women. Inc re-
! covery of the bodies will be difficult
until the locomotives arrive TO pun
away the giant trees, whose trunks
and branches are interlocked ABOVE the
| dead. o,-o,a,,
packed so tight that shovel VIII not
enter it, is turning 1t to Ice
The Working force in the avalanche
ruins now consists of $50 men, Ameri-
| cans. Three of the Greek and SlaFon-
ian laborers stole clothing from the
| r,1ins hut they did not actually TOD
| tho dead bodies. The misconduct OF
! these men aroused such Indignation
! that the railroad sent all the seventy
| five laborers away. ,,,-.-.., .,,,.,
| Communication with Wellington W. ma9
inferrupted considerably today. Ihe
Groat Northern offers no objection to
an estimate of 11S dead, made by seat
lie naners. OF the dead eighty-four
eref passengers. railroad employees ana
nostal clerks. and the remainder rai-
road laborers.
other Bodies Recovered
Reside the list of thirty-two dead
cont ont last night the bodies OF Mr..
and Mrs. George Beck of Pleasanton'
Cal and their three children, Emma
Marion and baby, and Porter duncan
vere recovered. The bodies or the
Teck family will be brought out TO-DAY
and shipped TO California. IN con
yeving the bodies down the inouIlalh
trail toboggan is mace OIL ai1o4' poaLu9'
and the body, wrapped IN DiaIinvt, aNt,,,
Is laid on the sled, which Is easly
dra gged over the snow, except in steep
nlaees where the men must llII tile
burden and carry it, c...4,o
1rhe body of r. II. Bethel of Seattle,
formerly a prominent civil engineer Oh
New York city, was sent down inc
trail. o.loor
AS all the passengers We're asleep
when the avalanche struck the traih'
there is some delay in Identifying the
bodies. The first bodies found We're
mutilated. but those found lower down
are unmarked and the expressions on
+he faces is that of persons who never
woke from sleep. The only man WHO
saw the avalanche, a lodger in wei
lington hotel, who dashed down tile
mountain TO Skykomish with the news
has not yet recovered ms senses
THE first photographs received mere
of the wellington disaster make clear
the tremendous difficulties in the way
M recovery of bodies. Mixed in the
mass of snow and wreckage are gigan-
tic trees. whose trunks and branches
are so interviewer as to make IL al
most impossible for men with no tools
hut axes and shoyels to get into the
mass,
Wrecking Trains Aid Work
Great Northern plows and wreckinS
trains, with an army of men, are work
inc toward the summit on both sides
Of the mountain and when the loco
motives reach wellington they will
pull out the trees with chains ana
cables. A..
Bailets hotel, on the edge of the
gorge. Iurched toward the slope to-
day and it is feared that 1t will slide
into the gorge. This would be ca
lamity, owing to the scarcity of shelter.
Another name has been added to the
list of missing-that of Harry o. Part
ridge Of Biloxi, Miss, railroad fire.
man who was dead-heading on one of
the lost engines.
A laborer caught stealing watch
Gm T. ssa. OK