The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-02-28
IDAHO VILLAGES
BURIED UNDER
TWO AvALANCHES
Twenty-Six Families Buried
Under Fifty Feet of Snow
Piles
|SEConO snOWSLIDE MAY
HAVE BURIED 4 HUNDRED

+, Have BURIED 4 HUNDRED
One Report Gives the Probable Dead
as a Hundrad-Thirty Bodies Have
Been Recovered-Whole Gorre Il
Filled With Snow.
Spokane. Feb. 2s.-sixty lives havs
been lost 1t is feared, In the two great
snowslides which have brought dis
may to the mining towns of the rich
Couer D'Alene district in northern
Idaho. At 10:35 o'clock last night, q
snowslide swept down the mountain.
striking the little town of Mace. and
burying twenty-five houses and their
sleeping occupants in mass of snow
and ice at the bottom of the canyon.
At $3.50 o'clock this morning another
slide rushed down ON the town Of
Burke, crushing a score of houses
under the thousands of tons of earth
and snow. Fourteen bodies have been
recovered already from the ruins Of
Mace. Sixteen dead have been found
at Burke, and how many are still
buried can only be guessed at.
Fifty or sixty dead is regarded "a
conservative estimate. It Is feared
that the number killed at Burke may
be even larger than that at Mace.
Every man who can be spared from
rescue work at Mace has been appeal
ed to-. Doctors were rushed from
! Wallace on special trains. From
the foot of the Anchor mine plant
to the Catholic church. about half a
mile. the slide is thirty feet deem.
When the alarm spre ad through the
mining camp that Mace had been al
most wiped out by the landslide, the
mothers. wives and children Of the
men employed at the Hecla, Hercules
and Anchor mines and the caretak.
ers at old Tiger-Poorman shaft he.
gan to seek places of safety.
The families of the miners that had
responded to the appeals from Mace
were unable to move and saved from
being buried In the snow. Because
OF the larger population Of Burke.
about 900, the houses are closer to.
gether. Mothers hauled their chill.
dren to the hill sides; brothers drag.
ged their little sisters to places of
safety and when the slide struck.
many OF the homes we're deserted by
the fear stricken women and children.
While the bread providers we're rescn.
ing the injured at the stricken sister
town..
! Old timers in the Couer O'Alene dis
trict have been sounding daily warn.
lngs to Mace, Burke and Black Bear
that because of the record depth of
snow the slides were imminent.
The Calamity.
! Wallace, Ida, Feb. 2S.-An Avail.
anche which has threatened the Ifttia
town of Mace, five miles up the can.
yon from Wallace for two days. de-
scended last night about 1885 with
roar heard in Wallace and buried
Ill Its path twenty-five families or
about seventy people. How many Of
these are dead will not be known IN.
til some time later this morning and
perhaps not for many days, for the
reports tell of the snow hlling the
canyon to depth Of fifty to seventy.
nve feet. Three bodies are reported
to have been recovered. Superintend-
ent Pascoe of the Standard mine n
said to be missing but child Of his
was found alive.
Hundreds of men were avaken.a
by the fire bells as soon az the al
tent of the catastrophe became known.
Special trains were made up. the Art
leaving for Mace at 1880 q. m. he
hardware merchants opened their e.
tablishments. and shovels, picks and
other implements were had for the
asking. Every able-bodied man in
Wallace was hurried to the scene.
The little mining town Of Mace lies
between precipitious mountain sides.
struggling line of cottages in the
creek bottoms bisected by the line of
the Northern Pacific and Oregon
Railroad and Navigation company.
Its one industry is mining and its biz
mine is the Standard.
Three box cars containing fifty sec.
tion hands in the employ Of the North
ern Pacific railway were standing on
the sidetrack when the slide occurred.
All Of these men are supposed to have
lost their lives. Fifteen houses have
been swept away according to the
latest information.
Hundred Dead.
Walla Walla, Wash, Feb. 2s.-A
special to the Union says: Five
hundred rescuers have taken out
fourteen dead bodies, while twenty-five
men. women and children were taken
from the slide alive that occurred at
Mace last night. 1t is known that 100
additional are dead. The slide Is half
a mile long and thirty feet deep.
MAY BE MURDER VICTIM.
jamestown, N. D., Feb. 24.-The
disappearance of E. r. Stearns, a
we'll known butcher of Cleveland, this
county, has resulted in a thorough
search being made for him by rela-
tives. who fear that he has been mur-