Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-03-26
B. c. HAS SNOW Slide
OYERL93 RAILROADERS DEAD
NEAR ROGERS PASS.
Avalanche 800 Feet Wide Sweeps Every
thing in Front of It-Stalled Passen-
ger Train Goes Back to Calgary-Few
Bodies Recovered-Men Were Work
ing to Clear the Tracks.

ing TO Clear the TRACKS.
Winnipeg, March 6.-Canadian Pa
cifc officials report that go met death
and that ii injured were in the hos
pital as a result of the avalanche at
Rogers pass, b. 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 depth of IS 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, a small point west of Revelstoke.
The slide is 300 feet long and 10 feet
deep.
Names of the Known Victims.
Vancouver, B. c., March 6.-Of the go
Canadian Pacific trainmen, trackmen
and laborers buried by an avalanche in
Rogers pass, on the summit of the Sci
kirk range of the Rocky mountains, all
are probably dead. Following is list
of the victims:
r. j. Buckley, conductor.
w. Phillips, engineer.
J. j. Fraser, roadmaster.
T. Griffith, fireman.
A. p. Pottruff, engineer.
}. McClelland, bridgeman.
A. johnson, foreman.
G. Anderson, foreman.
+. 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
were those Of Roadmaster Fraser, Fire
man Griffith, Conductor Buckley, Engi-
neer Phillips, A. J.. 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 mile east
of the spot where the men were over
whelmed IL destroyed q portion OF a
snowshed and buried the track for 400
yards 10 q depth of 60 feet. There
were 40 victims la the last avalanche
Today's eastbound express left here
al 3;l5 as usual. Until the tracks have
been cleared passenger traffic, east and
westbound, viii be handled via the A.
! ron Lakes, Nelson 4 Crows Nest Pass
hallway.
/. Came Wlth Noise Lake Thunder.
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