The Oskaloosa herald., 1910-03-03
TRAIN IS CAUGHT
IN sNOWsL|DE
Great Anxiety Felt for Safety Of
Sixty Passengers.
FEAR FOOD is EXHAUSTED
Great Depth of Snow Prevents Relief
Train from Reaching Scene
of Disaster for Many
Hours.

Everett, Wash, March 2-Twenty-
three persons are known to be dead,
twenty-five are missing and score
are injured as result of the avanl-
anche which swept down the noun
tain side above wellington at the
west end of the Cascade tunnel early
this morning. The avalanche crush
ed two Great Northern trains, one the
westbound Spokane Express and the
other an overland train, hurting them
to the bottom of a canyon 200 feet
below. Three locomotives, four snow
plows and other equipment were ruin
ed in the slide.
Everett. Wash. Mar. 2.-Word was
received here that the Great North
ern Spokane express, which has been
stalled close TO the west entrance OF
tunnel on the summit of the Gas,
cade range since Thursday, had been
caught in a snowslide near Willing.
ton, Wash, and the greatest fear is
expressed for the safety Of the trains
60 passengers.
relief train was sent out from
Everett but it will probably be 4S
bours before the scene of the disaster
ean be reached. Huge banks of ice
and snow have blockaded the tracks
for miles and the relief expedition
will have to travel fully ten miles on
snowshoes.
Fear Provisions Are Exhausted.
II is feared that the store of pro-
L.. IaA
the passengers, if they have escaped
death from the snowslide, will under
go extreme suffering from cold and
hunger.
News of the disaster was brought
10 Everett by two passengers who
made their way over the snowbanks
by the use of snowshoes and accord
ing 10 these passengers, the train
crew was asked to run the tran into
the tunnel to avoid the danger OF
snowslides, but the request was met
with refusal.
Warmer weather has prevailed in
the mountains for the past "a hours
and with 1t has come danger of even
more disastrous snowslides than those
already experienced
The tracks for distance of 80
4 miles in the vicinity of the stalled
train are covered with 40 feet of
snow.
Deaths Now Reach Thirty-one.
AS the relief work progresses in the
six northern Idaho avalanches the
death and destruction brought by the
n To- no. a.
fed. The death list, which was esti.
mated at 10, has reached 81 and it is
believed as many more bodies will be
found in the ruined cabins which
housed hundreds of miners.
The known death list at Mace,
where the first avalanche struck has
reached IL and eight others are badly
injured. The avalanch of snow came
sweeping down the mountainside
without warning. crushing cabins and
the small houses like so many paper
boxes Those killed were either
smothered to death or crushed by the
falling walls.
It is believed that many residents
olong the mountainside have been
buried under huge piles of snow
where their bodies will remain until
the spring thaws.
Burke was the second place to feel
tae effects of the snowslide. Five
persons are known to have met death
here and many others are missing
Two persons met death at Carbonate
Hill and half dozen others were bad
ly injured.
Scores of miners are working des
perately at Mace and already 80 men
women and children have been res
cued. The heroic band OF workers
is being added to hourly and every
effort will be made to rescue any un
fortunates who are buried alive be
meath the snow and ice.