Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-03-05
KILLEDIN SNOWSLIDE
TOWN OF MACE, IDAHO, UNDER
SNOW And DIRT.
More Than 25 Families Suffer Great
y Loss of Life-Probably rs Lives Lost
Three Box Cars Loaded With Sec
Sion Hands Swept sAway- .Rescuers
Sent From Wallace. ~ - = y ,.s.t -'

Wallace, Idaho, Feb.:..sg The ava
yanche which has threatened the little
Gown of Mace, five miles VI, the canyon
from here, for two days, tonight, with
=. O. roar heard in wallacesdescended and
buried in its resistless path rs families,
. probably rs souls. srGt
How many of these victims are dead
will not be known until Smorning, per
haps not for many days, FOR reports tell
of snow filing the canyon to a depth
of so to rs feet
The dead bodies recovered:
Edgar Kittrell, miner, Wife and two
babies.
Dick Moyel, head cut open.
AIRS. Laird.
Mrs. Fennell.
Edgar Pascoe, son of Standard mine
superintendent.
.Inez Pascoe, daughter of superin-
tendent.
i. A. Pascoe and wife, missing, sup
posed to be dead. =.
Three boxcars containingsS0 section
men in the employ of the Northern Pa
cifc were standing on the sidetraeks
when the slide occurred. All are sup
posed to have lost their lives Fifteen
houses have been swept away, according
30 latest information.
At the Mace boarding house the snow
is 80 feet deep and, covers all the fiat
from the boarding house to the end OF
town toward Burke.
Hundreds Of men were awakened
from their beds in Wallace as soon as
the extent of the catastrophe became
known Special trains were made up,
the first leaving for Mace about mid
might and the second at 1 clock.
Hardware merchants openedt their
establishments and shovels were had for
Che asking. Every able-bodied. man in
Wallace that was possible to SECURE has
kurried to the scene. Fire bellstclanged
Go get out the populace, and thfre will
be no rest until the victims are Brought
out. dead or alive.
information furnished by Manager
CLARK of the North Idaho and thq Inter
state Telephone companies, is 10 the
effect that the telephone wires td' Mace
are swept down and buried, while the
high power lines of the Washington
Water Power company are alSQ de-
stroyed. The only communication - this
hour is from stations nearer or Though
some one sent back for more materials.
The little mining town of Mach lies
between PERCEPTIONS mountain SIDES, a
struggling line of cottages in the Reek
bottom, bisected by the rails off. the
Northern Pacific and Oregon Railroad &
Navigation companies Its one iI,pus-
try is mining and its big mines ,the
STANDARD i,
With scarce dividing line ser
ceptible the towns of Black Bear, Gem,
Mace and Burke form a long stringSSf
houses the entire six miles from WalEce
90 the latter town. Mace has popla-
dion of 100, all, with the exception u a
few storekeepers and schoolteachers,k in
the employ of the mine. 5.
Never since Burke, another little
canyon mining camp, was almost wiped
out by landslide almost exactly 10
wears ago on February 1, 1890, ha,1a
Occur d'Alene district town b, EN- So
sorely stricken by winter s wrath as
was Mace tonight.
On that memorable occasion the caa,
yon was filed 1000 feet across by
grinding mass of trees, stumps, eartt
and boulders so to rs feet deep packed
almost as solid as ice. It's track down
che mountain side was swept as clear
as floor and the deafening roar was
heard for miles up and down the gulch
Chinook Starts 1890 Slide.
Chinook winds and warm rain
started the snow sliding on Burk'
mountain, increasing in velocity will
every foot down the riountain, until i
gained such Roadway and force tina
only binding mist and roar warne'
the score families of miners of tn
approach. Surface trans were crushe
and twisted and cabins ground as egg
shells.
Warning was yesterday given resi-
dents of the canyon towns that cond
lions similar to those prevailing b'
fore the famous Burke slide prevailed
but none seemed to take heed.
Four Killed at Avery.
ihuioody hiSh0 a onO" o"N '"-
snuffed out the lives of three pro
pectors and a woman at Avery, sma
town on the new Milwaukee road nea
The Montana line. All were in I'll
cabin at dinner when the snow descend
ed with rush.
During the winter of 1888 the sno
piled high in the canyons and new
since has such a heavy fall been T
corded until this year. Mining me
have been jubilant because of Il
moisture promised for spring operation
Chinook winds accompanied by RAJ
have prevailed since Thursday with Il
snow from two to ten feet deep.
Latest Report.
Tuantv-one lives snuffed out,