The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-02-28
gaairty Bodies Recovered and an Unknown
Nunlber Of Dead in the Wreckage==-Many
Women and Children Rescued Alive===
Disaster had Been Predicted

Spokane. Feb. 2S.-In swift success
Sion. two terrible disasters have car
red death and dismay to the mining
towns of the rich Occur d'Alcnc dis
trlct, In northern Idaho At 10 &c
o'clock last night n suo~sIidc swept
down the mountain side. striking the
lttle town OF Mace and burying TWEEN.
tyhye houses and their sleeping oc.
9upants In mass OF snow, ice and
TreckaSe Al $50 n. m. another
side rushed down on the town OF
Burke. crushing II score of houses un-
der thousands OF tons Of earth and
snow
Fourteen bodies have been recoy.
cred already from tho ruins of Mace
siNten dead have been fonnd at
Burke, and how many are still buried
@nn only he guessed at
1t IS feared fifty or Sixty lives have
been lost There IS fear that the
number OF dead n, Burke may be
even larGer than that ut Mace
Every man that can be splred from
the rescue work at Mace has been
appealed to. Doctors are being
rushed from Wallace and another spc-
cia' train leaves In an hour I.-I
The bodies OF the following have
been recovered by tho thousand men
sent 10 Mace from Wallace. the Hncla
and Hercules mines and smaller prop.
critics in that vicinity
sodieo Recovered.
I, II. Pascoe. superintendent OF the
Standard mine.
Ira II. Pascoe, son of the Standard
f1ine superintendent.
Eddie Pascoc. 1
Inez Pascoe
Mrs. George Fcrnwcll
Mrs. A. II Lenrd.
John Fenncll. ...-.
Mrs Ed Kettrell
Two children
- Thompson, section foreman OF
the Oregon Navigation railroad.
Those Rescued.
These have been rescued. some Sc
riously injured
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Duncan
Mr.. and Mrs Bert Barnett
Mr.. and Mrs William Brand
Mrs Abe Kettrell and son.
Mrs. George Hooper,
MT and Mrs. Joseph Cohn
Mrs I. H. Pascoe
Tom Flanagan
Mr.. and Mrs. Paules Edwards and
Icur children
c. r. Hubble.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Champagne.
Leroy Hooper.
Mrs. Carrie Hooper. reported dead
ot first,
Italians Dig Out.
Thirty.flve Italians. sleeping in an
outfit car on the Northern Pacific SID
ing, who were swept away with their
ear in the bottom OF tho canyon. used
the tools in their care and dug them
selves out. At O'Clock this morn.
Ing all but one laborer had been ac-
counted for
Superintendent and Mrs. l. II. Pas
coe OF the Standard mine, in which
property large majority Of the male
residents OF Mace are employed were
ntleep when their homo was crusscd
rs an eggshell. two sons and daugh-
CT beIng instantly killed. Mr.. Pascoe
is micsing but his wife Was rescued.
slightly injured.
When the alarm spread through
the mining camp that Macs had been
wiped out by a snowslide, mothers,
wiyea and children OF miners en-
poyed at the Hecla, Hercules. Anchor
and caretakers at the old TIger-Poor
man mine. began 10 seek places OF
safety Wives and families OF miners
who hsd responded 10 appeals from
Mace we're unable 10 move and these
iney have been buried In the snow,
Because Of the larger population OF
Burke. about 800. the houses are
closer together.
Hurried to Places OF cafety.
Children hauled their mothers 10
The cidehills; brothers literally
dragged little sisters to places of
safety. and when the slide struck
many OF the homes were deserted by
fear-strickcn women and children,
chile the bread providers were res
cuing the injured at the c,ricken sis
ter town.
Old-umers OF the Occur d'Aleno
district have been sounding daily
warning 10 Mace, Burke and Black
Boar. saying that OF account Of the
depth OF the snow slides were immi-
mont For sixteen years these towns
have escaped devastating olideo. and
70 strong had the confidence OF the
mine residents became OF the con
r.ctiou that their homes and families
werc safe that no procauiion had
hecn taken
FTom the foo' Of the Anchor mine