The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-03-04
MACE AND BURKE WIPED OUT
BY AVALANCHE OF
SNOW.
DEAD Ma NUMBER l25
Northern Pacific Work Train Dis
appears.-Hundreds Of Rescuers
Working to Dig Out
Bodies.
BULLETIN


st 900 fee long and. save for a few y
= places. is packed As solid as ice.
i A cod wind sweeping the can
= yon and impeding those who are =
4 working to save a few more lives. "
y Those who have journey from =
4 Wallace to Mace and Burke say y
= that the number of dead probably =
: W. will be known accurately as =
y the huge slide can never be entire
* ly removed. n
4 Twelve dead bodies have been =
" recovered at Mace and 81 persons y
4 are injured as a result of he slide. =
" i * i
Wallace Idaho. Hundreds of
f ""~r 900 1i"~ir~ f"nrticaNV 10 re-
cover the IS to 121 victoms Of an
'tnh w.. e .nu", houses
at Mace. a small hamlet five miles
tIom acre.
Three bodies have been AXE out
so far and others are reported in
sight. Owing to the nature of the
soil, the work of digging is fraught
with great peril and it has been neces-
sary 20 timber the hillsides at several
points to prevent d further slide.
It will be many hours before the
number of deaths will be definitely
known. The slide came without
warning and telephone messages to
this city state that three box cars.
containing a section gang OF the
Northern Pacific. were buried.
NI--, T.: 1890 ~ ~ "
struggling cottages are built at the
bottom of a high mountain. The lines
Of the Northern Pacific and Oregon
Railway and Navigation company.
run through the place. The big slide
came about 1870 p. m. Sunday. while
everybody was asleep. A large sec
ton of earth on top of the mountain
became dislodged ana swept down.
ward with a roa that could be heard
in this city. five miles distant.
Caught Xix" rats. the residents of
the village had no chance to escape
and many were crushed in the debris
of their demolished houses.
The latest word from the scene of
the disaster stated that % families,
YIN - ''i 80 IiuiN 1udl were
caught in the slide and that 80 other
men in the construction cars were
buried.
Mrs. n. A Pascoe. wife of the SUI
perintendent of The Standard mine.
her son Edgar and daughter IneZ.
are missing and are supposed to be
dead.
The roar of the descending ava
lanChe gave the alarm here and tele-
phone communication was imme-
diately established with Mace. AS
cor as the extern of the calamity
was known. a relief train was made
up here and every available man hur-
rlcd to the scene. According to re-
ports. many of the houses are buried
to a depth Of 30 feet and it may be
a week before the complete list of
victims can be obtained.
Seven hours later another slide
rushed down on the town of Burke,
crushing a score of houses under thou
sands of tons of earth and snow.
Because Of the larger population of
Burke, about 400, the houses are closer
together. Mothers hauled their chill
dren to the side hills, brothers
dragged little sisters to places of
safety, and when the slide struck
many Of the homes We're deserted bv
fear-stricken women and children.
while the bread-providers were rSscu-
ing injured at their stricken sister
town.
Old-timerS in the Occur d'Alene dis
trict have been sounding daily warn
ing to Mace, Burke and Black Bea1
that because of the record depth of
the snow, slides were imminent. For
Is winters these towns have escaDed
devastating slides. and so strong had
the confidence of mine residents be-
come that their home and families
were safe that no precautions were
taken.