The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-01
SNOW AVAIL !CH{S
SPREAD DISASTER.
Without Warning They
OverWhelm Mining
Villages.
Id KNOWN DEAD,
CAUGHT IN RUINS
Rescuers Still Digging Frantical-
ly Into Great Slides in Hope
That Some Lives May Be
Saved-Towns Of Burke
and Mace Completely
Buried.

Spokane. Wash. February 2s-Twen-
ty-four persons arc known tonight to
be dead as the result of snowslides
yesterday and to-day In the 11ininG re-
gion of Northern Idaho II the nine
teen who perished in the avaidrches at
Mace and Burke, Idaho. last night and
early to-day. arc added three more who
died in a similar disaster Yesterday
when the camp of the Carbonate PHI
Mining Company, at Mullen, Idaho.
was destroyed, and two killed at Dor
sey. Idaho, to-day.
The fight against time and cold
at Mace and at Burke has been waSed
bravely and persistently by the little
army of men. who hope to find under
the heaps of ruins some who have es-
capped death.
Frantic Work of Rescue.
The rescuers have dug frantically
for many hours. Every available man
and boy has been pressed into service.
Mace is situated on a creek. and the
mountains rise high on either side OF
the town. The main body of the ava
lanche. which started from the top of
Custer Mountain. passed beyond the
town. and striking the opposite slopes
with terrific force, rushed up to the
opposite mountainside The canon is
filled to a depth of forty-fve feet.
The damage a Mace was done by
fragment of the main slide. which
carried a construction train from the
track as 1T plunged into the ravine.
AS it rolled up the other side it de-
molished the house, in its path, and
stopped a short distance beyond the
Pascoe home. The boarding house OF
the Standard Mine, where 900 miners
were sleeping, was missed by 10
| feet.
I The hrst slide, which almost wiped
Aout 1sac~. sTtr- srrA,Ss llle ali
/ cAcept ,lsat ma, IA ts.iaea
were sleeping The Burke avalaneha
| occurred early to-day. That more lives
were not lost at Burke is due TO Sea-
man S. Rowe, foreman of the Hecia
Mine. Realizing the danger that
| threatened the sleeping citizens, he
sent Bart Clement to arouse the inhab-
itants and urge them TO seek safety.
/ Rescuers Killed.
Four of those who lost their lives at
I Burke were members of the rescue
| party that had been at work at night
at Mace. They were David Sheppard.
/ Dick Richuis5. William Painter and
JamessRogers
ysFtese 1lots were among the first to
| respond tokthe call for succor when
1 the news Of the Mace disaster reached
Burke p Ayter working several hours
at the mass Office and earth that block
+. ed .the canon. they returned to Burke
just a.b4fnae 20 be caught in the slide
1 there, 49,
i Amonas the last to be taken out 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. a eat took four hours tc
extrlcate :e had suffered from
,he cold, but Was not severely Injured
Burke IS buried fifty feet under
snow and earth. The slide is 5000
feet long and fills the canon.
James Rogers. who was supposed u
have pewished. was rescued at
:. Burke tonight. He had been buried
, in the snow eight hours. 4
Late reports from Burke indicate
that last nights snowslide is not a!
, bad as first feared.
The number of known dead now to-
!, tails nineteen. At noon but four bod
les had been recovered at Burke, tn,
! victims being A. d. Pitchett, Richarc
s;henperd, and the children of Mr..
and Mrs. George Nueman, both of theil
parehts being reported injured
Whether other bodies are hidden unde
the fifty feet of snow cannot be de
* termined IS yet.
.Aly husband! Where is he?" crie'
Mrs pascoe, wife of the superintend
: ent of the Standard Nine. when res
cuers pulled her out OF mangle'
, mass OF twisted iron bed rails unde
I forty feet of snow at Mace. Only
: !, cast .ron bed post saved her fror
/ ( death Her husband was mangled al
e most beyond recognition.
n Many Slides Reported.
G snowslides are reported at widel
: senarated points in the Occur D'Alen
. : district. At Murray, twenty-five mile
: north of Wallace, one slide smashe
the surface plants of the Parage
: Nine inhcting damage to the amour
$ of $4,000 From the same localit
: comes news of the injury to the Rea
: Top Mine
0 At Mullen. eight miles east of Wal
n lace, the roof of the opera house col
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