The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-01

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are believed yet buried OF the res
cued Mrs. R. H. Pascoe and Mrs. Guest
| will likely die of their injuries.
| AT Burke, Mr.. and Mrs. Al Newman
! and James Rogers were among those
caught in the early morning avalanche
that overwhelmed that town. They
were rescued but are not expected to
live. Rogers was injured about the
| chest. He was buried eight hours
before rescued. The two Newman
| Children are dead
Those dead in the Mace slide whose
bodies are recovered are:
! Mrs. John Fennell, AL. Laird, Mrs.
| Laird, mother of AL. Laird; Richard
| Moyle, ]. Thompson. T. B. Moore, r.
H. Pascoe, superintendent Of the
| Standard mine; Eddie Pascoe, son of
| r. H. Pascoe; Inez Pascoe, a daugh-
ter of r. H. Pascoe; Mrs. Ed. Kit
| trell, wife of bookkeeper Of the U.
| Stores company; two Kittrell chill
dren.
The injured at Mace are: Mrs. r.
| H. Pascoe, Miss Katie Pascoe, Mrs. E.
w. Hooper, Mrs. Guest, William
| Gibson, Mrs. Abe Winchester.
Others taken out alive at the
! Mace slide are:
William Brand, wife and child; John
Fennell, William Newton, wife and
child; Gano Duncan, wife and child;
Mrs. Gassaway. Ed. Wheatley. wife
and child; Paul Edwards, wife and
three children, Thomas Flanagan,
six children of William George, Miss
| George, B. n. Barnett and wife, Mrs.
George Hooper
| Those killed in the Burke slide
whose bodies are recovered are:
Dave Shepherd, Dick Richott, two
| children of AL Newman.
| The injured in the Burke slide are:
| AL Newman, Mrs. AL. Newman, James
| Rogers.
Depressing gloom hangs over both
Burke and Mace, where Sundays snow
slides occurred The inhabitants SEEM
| ingly have just come to full reallza-
| ton of the awful catastrophe which
| has overtaken them. Around miners
boarding houses and other places
where men congregate conversation is
carried on in whispers. Notwithstand-
ing the exciting scenes attendant upon
| the search and removal of victims, the
| best of order prevails. By order OF
the sheriff every saloon in the can
yon was closed tight this morning, and
so remained throughout the day. 1t
was noon today before the searchers
found the body of John Thompson, the
foreman of the o. r. & N. construction
gang. 1t was apparent that he had
been thrown from a car which was
| overturned with several others, and
tumbled down the embankment into
the river. Thompson was caught be-
meath the trucks and pinned down in
two feet of water.
The first slide came down draw
between two of the tallest hills sur
rounding Mace, distance of two and
a. half miles. The momentum thus
gained explains the destruction of IL
houses across the creek and on the
hillside opposite the residence of r
H. Pascoe. The depressions in the val
| ley were filled with heavier snow,
lice and rocks, while the main body oil
the avalanche, swept on over the leve
thus made, was hurled with terrific
force against the houses which offered
no more resistance than paper. TIC
add to the horror of the situation IN
Mace, poles bearing telephone, electric
light and power lines were borne down
and the town was thus in darkness
without ability to communicate with
neighboring places for more than ar
hour.
Rescue parties worked by the light
of bonfires made of oily waste and
lanterns taken to Mace by the Wal
lace relief party
An act that aroused much favorable
comment was that of James Murphy
injured in the Burke slide. Suffering
from numerous wounds, he discovered
near him A. J. Newman, who on &C
count of a broken leg was unable
to help himself. Murphy had almost
succeeded in freeing himself and New
man when a minor slide buried both
again. Murphy worked away with
almost superhuman effort and finally
dug his way out with Newman.
Some of the miners at the scene
of the first slide are confident thai
the remains of two, possibly three
Italian laborers are beneath the over
turned boarding cars at the bottom OF
Occur d'Alene river, from which place
the remains of Foreman John Thorn
pson were taken this afternoon.
When the Burke slide occurred
men who had been working at Mace
appealed to all who could be spared
l and all doctors were transferred to
the scene of the latest catastrophe
II Among them was James Rogers, g
young man living at Burke. His
clothing being soaked, he went to
room to change before beginning the
work of rescue. While undressed, the
second slide descended upon Burke
wrecking the house in which Rogers
roomed. He was found at 80 this
afternoon, nearly dead from loss OF
blood from deep cut in his right
hip and another On the top of his
II head.