Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-03-04
AVALANCHE DESCEND UPON MIN
ING TOWNS OF MACE AND
BURKE IN IDAHO.
WARNING NOTES NOT NEEDED.
Camps Escape Devastation for Sixteen
Winters and No Precautions
Are Taken.
MINE SUPERINTENDENT MISSING.


lives have been lost, it is feared, in two
great snowslides which have brought
dismay to the mining towns of the rich
Occur d'Alene district in northern Idaho.
At 1875 o'clock Sunday night, a snow
slide swept down the mountain, striking
the little town of Mace, and burying
twenty-five houses and their sleeping oc-
cupants in mass Of snow and ice at
the bottom of the canyon. At 5: 80 a. NJ,
today, another slide rushed down on the
town of Burke, crushing a score of
houses under thousands of tons of earth
and snow.
Fourteen bodies have been recovered
already from the ruins of Mace; sixteen
have been found at Burke, and how
many are still buried can only be guessed
at. Fifty or sixty dead is regarded as a
conservative estimate.
There is fear that the number killed
at Burke may be even larger than that
at Mace. Every man who can be
spared from the 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 mile,
the slide is 30 feet deep.
When the alarm spread through the
mining camp that Mace had been almost
wiped out by a landslide, mothers, wives
and children of men employed at the
Hecla, Hercules and Anchor mines and
caretakers at the old Tiger Poorman
Families of miners that had responded
to appeals from Mace were unable to
move, and many have been buried in
the snow. Because of the larger popu-
lahon of Burke, about 900, the houses
are closer together.
Many Desert Homes.
Mothers hauled their children to the
side hills; brothers dragged little sisters
to places of safety, and when the slide
struck many of the homes were deserted
by fear-stricken women and children,
while the bread providers were rescuing
ing injured at the stricken sister town.
Old timers in the Occur d'Alene district
have been sounding daily warnings to
Mace. Burke and Black Bear that be-
cause of the record depth of the snow,
slides were imminent For sixteen win
ters these towns have escaped devastat-
ing slides, and so strong had the conf
dence of the miner residents been that
homes and families were safe, no precau-
tons were taken.
The bodies of the following have been
recovered by the thousand rescuers:
PAsCOE, l. H, superintendent of the
PASCOE, IRA H, son of Standard super
PASCOE, EDDIE,
PASCOE, INEZ,
FERNWELL, MRS. GEORGE,
LEARD, MRS. A. R..
FENNELL, JOHN,
S1ETTERELL, MRS. ED. and two chill
THOMPSON, -. section foreman Of the
O. r. & N, buried under car in 10 feet OF
water in the river. a"
These have been rescued, some serious
ly injured:
Mr.. and Mrs G. Duncan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Barnett
Mr.. and Mrs. William Brandt. Il 49,,
Mrs Abe ketterell and son. -. -.
Mrs. George Hooper. ifr.t
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Cohn.
J. II. Pascoe.
Tom Flanagan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Edwards and four chill
dren
c. r. Hubble
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Champagne.
Mrs Carrie Hooper reported dead at
frst).
Thirty-ive Italians, sleeping in an out
fit car on the Northern Pacific siding,
who were swept away with their car
in the bottom of the canyon, used the
tools in their car to dig themselves
out.
Supt. and Mrs. I. H. Pascoe of the
Standard line in which property a large
majority of the male residents of Mace
are employed, were asleep when the
officials home was crushed like an egg
SMELL 1.-TWO SONS anu u uduSuleF OIL the
couple were instantly killed. Mr.. Pas
coe is missing, but his wife was rescued,
slightly injured.
With bitter wind blowing, every
available man within ten miles of Mace
was rushed at midnight to the little
mining town. There bonfres were built,
torches lighted, and the wooden crushed
houses used for fuel to keep the workers
warm. Shovels were brought from
hardware stores in several towns in the
canyon, special trains carrying both
tools and food. The scene around Burke
following the slide was appalling. The
whole village with it's 900 inhabitants
was thrown into a panic. Older heads
at once began to seek places of safety
for their wives and children.
Slide in California.
MONTERIO, Cal, Feb. 2S.-The
landslide started on the hillsides by re-
cent heavy rains has done no serious
damage, and it is believed the precau-
tons taken will avert disaster. Foun-
dations of all threatened buildings have
been strengthened.
TRACTION ENGINE TAKES TUMBLE.