The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-04

lLINGTON, Wash, March 3
ist of dead and missing pas
J, trainmen and postal employees
serc carried down BY the ava
itfat DESTROYED two Great North
aif S Tuesday morning, now con
>iehty.six names. Statements of
mljcr of laborers engaged in fight
snow and who were sleeping
\ IiiIfnfcd trains varies from
ffo thirty. Consequently au
ie of 100 dead is conservative.
dead all were residents of the
est. Of the injured only one,
~. Bishop, Wingct of Chicago,
[ easterncr.
Worst Type of Slide,
,yalanche Of drv snow might
rcred its victims alive. but the
at Wellington is packcd tight
vet snow. ice. huge trees and
boulders of enormous weight.
tthc bodies recovered were those
Electricians who were living in
at the edge of Wellington and
rrc carried with their home 500
lVn the slope.
,lay stream Of men. packs
ID to their backs, wound about
iuptain path from Skvkumisb 10
and wclIiigton. reminding Alas
N the caravans that crossed The
pt trail in klondiic DAYS. The
.irried food and supplies for the
\ aud silnc went up tp dig for
lies OF friends or relatives. \
Re sightsccrs and they were told
rs. were not wanted. \ laborcr
pgbi taking trinkcls from
oman : body and was compelled
4 down ihc trail at oucc. Que
Il and fifty rVcn dug for hodlcs
lvalJncbc debris Yesterday.
Moro Bodies Recovered.
IL the bodies found ,odav were
NJ former Prosecuting ATTORNEY
-Parnhart Of Spokane. Conductor
'ettii, who, after Il trip on foot
komish. went back. 10 his post.
fs. NJ A CoviGgton of Olympia.
A. Spokane 30 celebrate in Sc
pday her golden wedding ami.
\. If the scarrhcrs locate the
NJ ears intact in rbc snow. they
pkc out many bodies in short
hit II is likely that The dead
rwn all through the debris. Al
escnt rate of progress it would
Fceks Ia recover all the bodies.
fhc track is opened, engines aud
wlil lift the huge trees and
Fs. There are no roftiuc at Wei
,, and the dead. wrapped I'm bIan.
l'e on the snow, well preserved.
y plows and wrcckpg trains
pg east from Skvkomish made
progress TO-DAY The weather is
and favorable to caving Of wet
los.
erlnicndcut O'Nclll Of The Great
ern said tough, he expected the
o be IN opcration about April
1rcat Northern s costly expert
WIN sncw in tho Cascades this
has caused renewal of the uro.
bn1ding u tunnel at i level 10On
'o"er than he present one. and
|, west portal would be AT Scenic
oprines. The tunnel was figured
'aTs ago and passed upon rs feasi.
> E'Torean engineers.
Traced by Blood Stains,
'kers searching for bodies fro
md victims by following blood
lthrough The snow. The molt;ng
,ps carried thc stains down "a ,Ieo
at The bottom of tho culch
IN shoVels, upon iiudinc Que nf
slinSon ieade. start at the edpc NJ
hn and tunnel through The SNOW
'Py come 10 the body of yictim
Nv is packed Ike ccmcn, ,nJ
es mat were not manclcd bv tho
II oi inc cars were crushed hy
7rfght OF The lev mass.
lTpcared many bodies Will novcr
~]eLed; The warm weather and
M INC last three days have turnnd
a stream thai flows through tLc
lY.o a torrent and the water is
: ."lnIng the snow which vas
ID out across the bottom of lho
W. is believed that many hodios
- % NV clear across the ptIch and
{ pu'r lorty feet of snow. As
g. rn r,scs and thr water undcr.
~ ~ uebrlS there is danger of ihc
,Jsorpn1g INTO the river and being