Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01
SIXTY ARE DEAD
In SNOWSLIDE
Two Monster Avalanches Sweep Down
Mountain, Burying Mace and
Burke, Idaho.
THIRTY BODIES ARE RECOVERED
. Many More Buried Under Debris Of
Earth and Snow.
THOUSAND REsCUERs AT WORK
Every Available Man in District is
Rushed to Scene.
ALL WARNINGS GO UNHEEDED
Old Timers Predicted Catastrophe, but
No Precautions Were Taken by
overconfIdent MinerS-Mine
superintendent IL killed.

Superintendent II hllAeO.
SPOKANE, Wash. Feb. 2s.-sxty lives
were lost, It is feared, in two great ava
lanches which swept down upon two min
ing towns Of the rich Occur dAiene district
in northern Idaho
At 1926 o'clock last night a snowslide
swept down the mountain side, striking the
littie town Of Mace and burying twenty
five houses and their sleeping occupants
in a mass of snow, ice and wreckage at the
bottom Of the canyon. At $50 a. m. an
other slide rushed down on the town of
Burke crushing a score Of houses under
thousands Of tons of earth and snow.
Fourteen bodies have been recovered al
ready from the ruins OF Mace, sixteen have
been found at Burke, and how many are
still buried can only be guessed at
Fifty or sixty dead is believed to be
safe estimate.
There is fear that the number of dead
at Burke may be even larger than that at
Mace. Every man who can be spared from
the rescue work at Mace has been appealed
TO- Doctors were rushed from Wallace on
special trains.
From the foot of Anchor mine plant to
the Catholic church, about half a mile
the slide Is thirty rect deep
Rush for safe Places.
when the alarm spread through the min
fnE camp that Mace had been almost
wiped out by a landslide, mothers, wives
and children Of miners employed at the
Heca Hercules, Anchor and caretakers at
the old Tiger Poorman mine began to seek
places of safety.
Wives and families Of miners who had
I9u
able 70 move and these may have been
buried in the snow.
Because OF the larger population of
Burke-about 9OO-the houses are closer to-
gether Mothers hauled their children to
the side hills; brothers literally dragged
little sisters to places OF safety. and when
the slide struck many Of the homes were
deserted BY fear stricken women and chill
dren, while the bread providers were res
cuing injured at the stricken sister town.
Old-tlmers in the Coeur d'Alene district
have been sounding daily warnings to
Mace, Burke and Black Bear that because
of the record depths OF the snow slides
were Imminent For sixteen winters these
towns have escaped devastating slides and
so strong had the confidence of the miner
residents been that their homes and fami-
lies were safe that no precautions had been
taken. u ~ UAR
list of recovered Dead,
The bodies OF the following have been re-
covered by the 1000 rescuers:
IRA HO HAsCOE, son Of Standard
mine superintendent.
EDDIE HASCOE,
INEz HASCOB.
MRS GEORGE FERNwELL.
MRS A. r. LEARD.
JOHN FENNBLL.
MRS. ED KETTRELL and TWO chill
DREN.
- THOMPSON, section foreman of the
oregon Railway and Navigation company,
buried under car in ten feet OF water in
the river.
Many Rescued Alive.
These have been rescued, some seriously
injured:
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Duncan
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Barnett.
Mr.. and Mrs. william Brandt.
Mrs. Abe Kettrell and son.
Mrs. George Hooper.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Cohn.
Mrs. /. II. Hascoe,
Tom Flanagan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Edwards and four
children.
.. II. ItuDDie
Mr., and Mrs. Albert Champagne,
Leroy. Hooper
4 Mrs. Carrie Hooper. reported dead at
first
Thirty-five Italians sleeping in an out
tit car on the Northern Pacific siding. who
were swept away with their car in the
bottom OF the canyon used the tools in
their car to dig themselves out
superintendent and Mrs. I. H. Hascoe Of
the Standard mine in which property a
large majority Of the male residents OF
Mace are employed, were asleep when their
home was crished. two sons and daughter
being instantly killed Mr. Haseoe is MISC
ing. but his wife was rescued slightly
injured.
Hundred Reported Killed.
WALI4A WALLA, Wash, Feb. ga
special from Wallace, Idaho says:
With a furious blizzard blocking efforts
OF rescuers progress In recovering those
buried In last nights avalanche is almost
impossible Five hundred men sent from
this city had recovered only twelve bodies
at $3.50 a. m. II is virtually certain that
more than 100 persons have perished."