The Montgomery tribune., 1910-03-04
AVALANcE 80 FEET DEEP AND
b. HALF MILE LONG OVER
WHELMS VILLAGE.
NOISE IS HEARD FOR 8 MILES
Rescuers Hurried to Scene on Special
Trains, But Their Work Is Hin.
dered by Furious Blizzard
Then Raging.

have been recovered from the
snowslide that buried the little min
ing town of Mace, five miles from
here, on the Northern Pacific railway.
1t is certain the death list will be 100,
and it may be two or three times that
figure. Much OF the town is buried
under dirt, snow, trees and debris to
depth of 30 feet.
Seven hundred men sent from here
are digging into the snow in an eff
fort to reach the houses. About 25
men, women and children have al
ready been taken out alive, many Of
them badly injured. A furious bliz-
zard is hindering the work of the
rescuers. The roar of the slide was
distinctly heard here.
Many Trapped in Hotel.
Mace is divided into two parts,
known as Upper and Lower Mace, re-
spectively. The catastrophe occurred
in Lower Mace, where are quartered
about three hundred miners employed
in the STANDARD mines. Most of these
men are single and live in the Stand
ard hotel. Meager reports by tele-
phone are that the hotel was in the
path of the avalanche, which was
half mile long,
Though first reports of the disaster
were that the town of Gem, Idaho,
located mile above Mace, on the
same side of the canyon, had been
overwhelmed, later news seems to in
dicate that the town escaped.
Fire Bells Call Rescuers.
Hundreds Of men were awakened
by fire bells in wallace as soon as
the catastrophe was known. Relief
trains were made up, the first leaving
for Mace at about 1890 and the other
about l a. m. Hardware merchants
opened their establishments and SHOW
els and picks and other implements
were had for the asking. Every able
bodied man in Wallace that it was
possible to find was hurried to the
scene. There will be no rest until
the victims are brought out either
dead or alive.
The little mining town of Mace
lies between precipitous mountain
sides, struggling line of cottages in
thee reek bottom, bisected by the
lines of the Northern Pacific and the
Oregon Railrod and Navigation com.
panies. It's one industry is mining
and it's big mine is the Standard.
With scarce a dividing line percep
tible the towns of Black Bear, Gem
Mace and Burke form long string
of houses for six miles. Mace has
population of several hundred, all
with the exception of few store
keepers and school teachers, in the
employ of the mine
Partial List of the Dead.
Following is a partial list of the
bodies recovered:
Edward Kittrell, miner, and his wife
and two babies.
Dick Moyll.
Mrs. Fennell.
Edgar Pascoe, son Of the Standard
| mine superintendent.
| intendent.
Mrs. George Farwell.
A.AJ. Laird and wife.
Mrs. Carrie Hooper
H. A. Pascoe and wife are miss
ing an dare supposed to be dead.
| Section Men Buried In Cars.
| Three box cars containing so sec
ton men of the Northern Pacific were
standing on the sidetrack when the
slide occurred and all these men ar,
supposed to have lost their lives,
Fifteen houses have been swep
away, according to the latest informa
ton.
At the Mace boarding house thu
snow is 30 feet deep and all the fla
from the boarding house to the enc
OF the town towards Burke is buriet
in the slide.
Not since Burke, another little can
yon mining camp, was almost wipe,
out by landslide on February /
1890, has Cour dAlene district tow
been so sorely stricken as Is Mace.