The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-05
SIX KILLED
. IN NEW SLIDE
Forty-Eight Bodies Recovered
From the Mass of Snow and
Wreckage at Wellington
Cold Rains Increase Fears.
SIX LARoRERs KILLED.

= Seattle, March 4.-Six laborers y
+ are reported to have been killed =
= by an avalanche that destroyed y
4 Cascade, small station east of 4
the Cascade tunnel. The report =
y was brought to Seattle by a sec y
+ ton man. He said that he \
= walked through Cascade this =
= morning and that everything had y
= been wiped out but cook shack. y
= Two men at the scene told him of =
= the death of the six labOrers, 4
y whose names are not known. The y
= Great Northern has received no y
= report of an avalanche at Cas- =
y cade, but il is known that sew =
\ eral bad slides have occurred on y
= the east slope OF the mountains. =
= All communication with tfkt sec
y ton has been cut off.
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Wellington, Wash, March 4.-The
men digging for bodies In the ava
lanche tomb made little progress to-
day, and late this afternoon only forty
eight dead had been brought out, leav-
ing thirtythree passengers and, rail-
road men and an unknown number of
laborers in the gorge where the two
trains are buried. The seaTchers are
working in the daytim only.
More Bodies Found.
The Great Northern railroad today
sent in fifteen Alaskan sIedges, on
which the bodies will be taken TO a
mems homes were at Everett. The body
of Donald Gilmore, fireman, was re-
covered. Edgar Lennon, of Hunters,
Wash, whose body and that of his
wife have been found, was formerly
one OF the leading attorneys of Seattle.
superintendent O'NeilTs private car,
containing the bodies of Trainmaster
A. B. Blackburn and Secretary Long
coy, was found today. All the wound
ed in the temporary hospital here are
recovering. Of zoo sacks Of mail
carried away by the avalanche, only
$50 have been recovered. There is no
trace whatever of one mail car and
seven clerks and weighers. In some
places cars are known to be under
seventy feet of trees, snow, earth and
rocks.
The Great Northern is using all the re-
sources at its command to open the track.
superintendent O'Neill estimates the ac-
tual loss to the road by destruction OF
property at $1,0O0,000
Gloom at Wellington.
Cold rains and increasing fear of snow
slides added to the gloom of Wellington
today. Two bodies were sent down the
trail, and the Others, wrapped in blank
cts, are lying in railroad building. The
recovery of bodies viii be slow until
the locomotives arrive 10 pull away the
giant trees whose trunks and branches
are interlocked above the dead. The
rain, falling on snow already packed so
tight that shovel will not enter it, is
turning il to ice.
The working force IN the avalanche
ruins now consists of $50 men. Ameri-
cans. Three of the Greek and Slavonian
laborers stole clothing from the ruins.
but they did not actually rob the dead
bodies. The misconduct of these men
aroused such Indignation that the rail-
road officials sent all the seventy-five
foreign Iaocrers away.
Much JeweIry Found.
Coroner Snyder has taken charge of s10.-
900 worth of iewelry and other vaiuables,
which he viii hold pending identified
ton By relatives of the victims
Superintendent O'Neill said tonight that
the line TO Skykomish will not be open
for at least eight days. Recent slides
on the east slope of the mountains shat
tered hopes that the line to Spokane
would be opened soon.
Snow is falling tonight, making the
work Of rescue more difficult.