The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-03-03
AVALANCE 30 FEET DEEP AID
HALF MILE LONG OVER.
WHELMS VILLAGE.
NOISE IS HEARD FOR s MILES
Reseuers Hurried TO Scene on Special
Trains, But Their Work is Hin.
dered by Furious Blizzard
Then Raging.

Wallace, Idaho -Twclyc bodies
have been recovered from the
snowsidr tina, buried the little min.
ing town OF Mace. nyc miles from
here, on the Northern Pacific railway.
i is certain the death list will be- 100
and 1t may be two Of three times that
hsul". Much m the town il buried
under dirt. snow trees and debris to
Il depth Of 30 feet
Seven hundred men sent from here
are digging into the snow in an ef.
fort 70 reach the houses About IS
men, women and children have al
ready been taken out alive, many Of
them badly injured 4 furious biz
gard Is hindorlnu the work Of the
resCuors. The roar Of the slide was
distinctly heard here
Many Trapped In Hotel
Mace is divided into two parts.
known as Upper and Lower Mace re-.
spcctiNely The catastrophe occurred
IN Lower Mace, whore are chartered
about three hundred miners employed
=
men are single and live in the Stand
ard hotel. Mcager reports by tclc-
phone are that the hotel was in the
path Of the avalanche, which was
half mile long
Though first reports Of the disaster
were that the town Of Gem, Idaho.
located a mile above Mace, OH the
same side Of the canyon. had been
overwhelmed, later news seems 10 In.
dictate that the town escaped.
Fire Bells Call Rescuers
Hundreds of men were avail, ned
by fire bells in Wallace as soon as
the catastrophe was known. Relief
trains were made up the first leaving
for Mace at about 1880 and the other
about ! a M Hardware merchants
opened their establishments and shoy.
els and picks aud other implements
were had for the asking Every able.
bodied man in Wallace that II was
possible to find was hurried 10 the
scene. There will BE- no rest until
the victims are brought out either
dead or alive
The little mining town Of Mace
lies between PERCEPTIONS mountain
sides, a struggling line Of cottages In
thee rork bottom. btscctcd By the
lines Of the Northern Pacific and the
Oregon Rairod and Navigation com.
pani"s Its one industry is mining
and its big mine is the Standard.
with scarce a dividing line percep.
tiblc the towns Of Black Bear. Gem,
Mace and Burke form a long string
Of houses for six miles Mace has
n population Of several hundred. all. .
with the exception Of few store.
Keepers and school teachers, in the .
employ OF the mine
Partial List Of the Dead.
Following is a partial list Of the /
bodies recovered:
Edward Kittrcll, miner. and lis wife
and two babies
Dick Moyll
Mrs Fcuncll.
Edgar Pascoc, son of the Standard
mine superintendent
lnoz Pascuc, daughter Of the super.
inicndent
Mrs. George Farwcll.
A. ]. Laird and wife
Mrs. Carrie Hooper
II 4 pascue and wife are miss.
Ing nm dare supposed to be dead. z
Section Men Buried in Cars.
Three box cars containing 80 sec.
ton men Of the Northern Pacific we're
OIL the sidcrrack when the
slide occurred and all these men are
supposed to have. lost their lives.
Fifteen houses have been swept
away according to the latest nforma-
ion
At the Mace boarding house the
snow is 80 feet deep and all he fiat
rom the boarding house to the end
II the town towards Burke is buried
n the slide.
Not since Burke another little can
ION mining camp. was almost wiped
nj by u landslide on February /, I
$50. has Cour d'Alene district town {
'ccn so sorely stricken as is Mace ,