The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-03-03
AvALANCHES Kill
SIXTY PERSONS N
MINING VILLAGES
Thirty Bodies Have Already
Been Recovered, and Res
cuers Are at Work.

spokane. Wash, March 2.-Sixty
lives were lost. 1t is feared, in two
great avalanches, which swept down
on Two mining towns of the rich Occur
DAlene district in northern Idaho.
AT 1885 o'clock last night a snow
slide swept down the mountain side,
striking the little town of Mace, and
purying 20 houses and their leeping
occupants in a mass of snow, ice and
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-
cred from the ruins of Mace; is have
been found at Burke. inc how many
are still buried "a only be guessed. at.
Fifty or go dead is believed to be a
safe estimate. There Is fear that the
number OF dead at Burke may be even
larger h q that at Mace. Every man
VINO 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
cnurch, o half a mile. the slide is
80 feet deep.
Wild Scramble for safety.
When the alarm spread through the
mining camp that Mace had beer al
most wiped out by a landslide, moth
ers, wives and children Of miners m
ployed at the Heckla, Hercules, An
Choir and ~caretakers 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
or the homes were deserted by fear
stricken women n children, while the
bread providers were rescuing 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, because of the record depth
of h snow, slides were imminent.
For sixteen winters these towns have
escaped devastating slides and so
strong had the confidence of the miner
residents been that their homes and
families were safe that no precautions
had been taken.
List of Known Dead.
The bodies of the following have
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. & NJ, buried under car
In 10 feet Of water in the river.
These have been rescued. some seri-
ously injured: ,
Mr.. n Mrs. j.. d. Duncan; Mr.. and
Mrs. Bert Barnet; Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Brandt; Mrs. Abe Kettrel and,
son; Mrs. George Hooper,; Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Cohn; /. H. Pascoe; Tom Flani-
gan; Mr.. n Mrs. Paul Edwards a.I
four children: c.. r. Hubble; NJ. and
Mrs. Albert Champagne; Laroy Hoop
er. Mrs. Carrie Hoorci, reported dead
at first.
Thir.y-ive Italians sleeping IN an
o:tnt car on the Northern Pacific sid
Ing, who were swept way with their
car in the bottom Of the CANYON used
the tools in their car to dig themselves
out.
superintendent and Mr.. I. H. Pascoe,
Of the Standard mine. in which proper
ty a large majority of the male resi-
e of Mace are employed, were
asleep when their home was crushed,
two o and a daughter being instant
ly killed. Pascoe was probably killed
but his wife was rescued. slightly in
tured.