The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-03-03
BY GEORGE c. coWING.

WELLINGTON March 3-Temporary tombs built q
snow and ee IN canyon high in the mountains
Instead OF being arranged long grewsome rows in hastily
prepared morgues such may ordinarily near the
scenes Of catasophcs the bodies Wellington after den-
cation carefully laid away the and ice ombs which
have previously been constructed
The helpless injured viii likewise remain carefully cared
for at improved hospital Wellington until train service
TO that station resumed it would be very dangerous to
attempt take the seriously over the trail from Wei
lington o Scenic
Today the Gres, Northern offices gave out the following
figures OF the dead and injured at Wellington
DEAD. 81
TOTAL SWEPT DOWN INTO THE CANYON io2
All hope Of saving the lives any missing in the We'll
and the that have kept hoping against hope in the
missing column have been transferred to the dead"
BUT TWENTY ALIVE.
OF the persons known 70 have gone over the bluff with
beneath the depths OF canyon now held as fan
tse hope beyond all and the death list fixed
the lowest number Fourteen Of the dead lived Seattle
Division Supt oNeh said today that il might be several
weeks before all the dead bodies could be The
April l.
I, possible that the may the bodies of
track labores Of whom there is present In COM
png list the Great Northern only with persons known
to have been aboard the train
ol ie' uS9 aoag Injured fatally aseQrng to Or Cox
in a temporary hospital weiiu ston
RELIEF WORKING
gueh work finding carried on under he greatest
difficulty The soft Is eacherous the
river Every The O a man. q a
child drogged 20 the surface and passed
each body q searched and identified
and assistants from Seattle taking immediate charge
uckctcd that there will difficulty ia identify
Ing them when they are finally brought out
This 80 carried while 10 fall In the
mountains The constant Of falling Fields
like artillery fire Several small slides have
wellington and there cut
cuing party had been wiped ont
DOCTORS AND NURSES ON SCENE.
M h g',@s t ana g on teS relief trains so' into Weingten
track k stun blocked with slides q telling
useless as e Is piled from 30 10 40 high
VIII tunnel The
nothing could drive them through these drifts The track
cleared with shoFets ana this viii take "a long time
Conditions the Cascade mountains and es
poay the Cascade tunnel duplicated
the Great Northern railway has been operating Never before
past years there many snowsldes but these
invariably have followed the gues snowsheds have been
suowsde the places where they
on The mountains considered Tor years as bene protected from
Small peaks the mountain sides that the past
pended obstruction sweep
thing that Is not known 10 have occurred before The guies
filled snow.
higher The mountains strikes obstruction in us mad
RoTARes USELESS
O practically n
who LETT the train and made his safety that the
powR uo service than oohpck would have
The blades OF the fans snapped of by che hoders
stumps buried In the snow covering the tracks
The places between Wellington
Springs s covering the telegraph poles Alaskan
muahers familiar with winters in the Alaskan mountains declare
has fallen continually weeks. /
Il m falling so heavily that one has difficulty seeing directly
safety avalanche yesterday lust the
moncement OF the havoc that viii be caused by the snow