The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-03-03
AVALANCHES KILL
SIXTY PERSONS IN
MINING VILLAGES
Thirty Bodies Have Already
Been Recovered, and Res
cuers Are at Work.

spokane. WASH, March 2.-Sixty
lives were lost, it is feared, in two
on " mining towns of the rich Occur
D'Alene district in northern Idaho.
At 1885 o'clock last night a snow.
slide swept down the mountain side
striking h little town of Mace, and
burying 20 houses M their sleeping:
wreck at the bottom of the canyon.
At $3.50 a. M. another slide rushed
down on the town of Burke, crushing
q score of houses under thousands Of
tons Of earth and snow. :"
Fourteen bodies have been recov-i
cred from the ruins of Mace; 1e have;
been found at Burke, and how many
are still buried can only be guessed at.
Fifty or so dead is believed to be a.
a estimate. There is fear tha the.
number of dead at Burke may be even;
farger than hat at Mace. Every man;
who can be spared from h rescue
work at Mace has been appealed to-.
Doctors were rushed from Wallace on
special trains. From the foot Of the
Anchor mine plant to the Catholic
church, about half a mile, the slide is
30 feet deep.
Wild Scramble for safety.
When the alarm spread through the
mining camp that Mace had been al.
most wiped out by a landslide, moth
ers. wives and children Of miners en-
ployed at the Heckla, Hercules, An
Choir and c~aretakers at the old Tiger
Poorman mine began to seek places
OF safety Wives and families OF min
ers who had responded to appeals
from Mace were unable to move and
these may have been buried in the
snow.
Because Of the larger population of
Burke. about 900. the houses are closer
together. Mothers hauled their chill
dren to the %sidehills; brothers liter
ally dragged little sisters to places Of
safety and when the slide struck many
of the homes were deserted by fear
stricken women n children, while tho
bread providers were rescuing injured
at h stricken sister town. /.
Old timers in the Occur d'Alene
district nave been sounding daily
warnings to Mace, Burke and Biach
Bear that. because Of the record depth
Of the snow. slides were Imminent.
Fol sixteen winters these towns have
escaped devastating slides and so
strong had the confidence of the miner
residents beer that their homes and
families were safe that no precautions
had been taken.
List Of Known Dead.
The bodies of the following have
been recovered by the 1000 rescuers:
IRA H. PASCOE, son of STANDARD
superintendent.
EDDIE PASCOE.
INEZ PASCOE.
MRS. GEORGE FERNWELL,
MRS. A. r. LIZARD.
JOHN FENNELL.
MRS. ED. KETTEL and TWO
CHILDREN.
- THOMPSON. section foreman
of the o. r. & N, buried under car
in 10 feet of water in the river.
These have been rescued. some seri-
ously injured: i,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. D. Duncan: Mr.. and
Mrs. Bert Barnet; Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Brandt; Mrs. Abe Kettrel and,
son; Mrs. George Hooper: MI. and Mrs.
Joseph Cohn; I. H. Pascoe; Tom Flani-
gan: Mr.: and Mrs. Paul Edwards a.a
four children: c. r. Hubble; NJ. and
Mrs. Albert Champagne; Leroy Hoop
er. Mrs. Carrie Hoonc., reported dead
at first.
Thir..y-1ve Italians sleeping In an
o.tnt a on the Northern Pacific sid
ing, who were swept away with their
car in the bottom Of the CANYON used
h tools in their car to dig themselves
out.
Superintendent and Mr.. L. H. Pascoe.
of the Standard mine, in which proper
ty a large majority Of the male resi-
dents Of Mace are employed, were
asleep when their home was crushed.
two sons and a daughter being Instant
~ killed. Pascoe was probably killed
but his wife was rescued, slightly in
tured.