Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-03-12
BE. HAS SNOW Slide
OVER. SO RAILROADERS DEAD
NEAR ROGERS PASS.
Avalanche 900 Feet Wide Sweeps Every
thing in Front of 1t-Stalled Passen-
ger Train Goes Back to Calgary-Few
Bodies Recovered-Men Were Work
ing to Clear the Tracks.

Winnipeg, March canadian Pa
cifc officials report that % met death
and that II injured were in the hos
pital as result of the avalanche at
Rogers pass, 3. c., Friday night.
Another slide occurred on the banks
of the Kicking Horse river near Palliser
today. 1t buried the track for length
of 900 feet to a depth of 25 feet. AS
soon as this slide is removed a west
bound passenger train, stalled 25 miles
east of Rogers pass, will be hauled back
to Calgary and the passengers and mails
shipped through to the Coast via Medi-
cine Hat and the Crows Nest Pass rail
road.
Another slide is reported from Three
Valley, small point west of Revelstoke
The slide is 800 feet long and 10 feet
deep.
Names of the Known Victims.
Vancouver, b. G., March 6.-Of the 90
Canadian Pacific trainmen, trackmen
and laborers buried by an avalanche in
Rogers pass, on the summit of the Sell
kirk range of the Rocky mountains, all
are probably dead. Following is a list
Of the victims:
r. J. Buckley, conductor.
w. Phillips, engineer.
j. J. Fraser, roadmaster.
T. Griffith, fireman.
A. 2. Pottrutf, engineer.
j. McClelland, bridgeman.
A. johnson, foreman.
G. Anderson, foreman.
f. Welsander, foreman.
d. J. Mcdonald, bridgeman.
A. Malone, brakeman.
G.. Nichols, bridgeman.
Twelve of Bridge Foreman Melon
aid S men, names unknown, and 81 Jap
anese.
Only Seven Recovered.
This afternoon the bodies of only
seven men had been recovered. They
We're those of Roadmaster Fraser, Fire
man Griffith, Conductor Buckley, Engi-
neer Phillips, A. p. Pottruff and A. Ma
hone and a Japanese. The work of re-
covering the dead and of opening the
track is greatly impeded by blizzard
that is blowing through the pass
There was also another big slide of
snow and rock this morning a mile east
of the spot where the men were over
whelmed. 1t destroyed a portion of a
snOwshed and buried the track for 40C
yards to depth of 60 feet. There
were no victims in the last avalanche
= 1af hor
at 315 as usual. Until the tracks have
been cleared passenger traffic, east and
; westbound, will be handled via the Ar
row Lakes, Nelson & Crows Nest Pas
railway.
Came With Noise Like Thunder.
The accident occurred near a snow
shed one mile west of Rogers pass ant
at the actual summit of the Selkirks
Conductor Vic Buckley and Enginee
> w. Phillips of the work train, heade'
by a rotary snow pillow, were killed.
/ The men were a working crew en-
gagged in clearing away small slid
, which had come down early in tn
evening. The men were spread GU
' over the slide and working a rotar.
8 came down and carried them to thei
f death in the canyon below.
' AS soon as the news reached Reve
r stoke the firebell was sounded an
+ within half an hour the relief trai
: conveying physicians and nurses an
n over 200 railway men and other cit
zens was speeding out to Rogers pas
Thirty Bodies Taken Out.
Vancouver, B. c., March 7.-Thirt
bodies have been found in the wreckag
9 at Rogers Pass, where the avalanch
buried 60 workmen engaged in clearin
the Canadian Pacific tracks of wrecl
h age brought down by an earlier slid
Twenty-Five of the bodies recovered al
those of white men, the other being til
bodies of Japanese section men. I'll
local offices of the Canadian Pacific a,
, here to their estimate of 62 dead. The
= say they have carefully checked the lii
6 of employees and that the number give
n is correct.
Five hundred men are at work clea
IS ing away the wreckage, and the railws
y company expects to have the line opt
:. for traffic by tomorrow night. 1t is e
4 pected most of the bodies will have bee
recovered by that time.
y The danger of other slides is INN
. nent. Rain and sleet have been fallir
80 for the last two days and tonight
a fearful snowstorm is raging. The wiz
70 blows through the pass with terri
!. force and the rescuers are greatly ham
cred in their work.