The San Francisco call., 1910-03-05
SEARCH FOR DEAD
DELAYED BY STORM
Rescue Force at Wellington Is
Hampered by Rain, Snow
and Blizzard
Forty Bodies Recovered and
Scores More Are Buried
Under Debris

ELLINGTON, Wash, March 4.-The
men digging for bodies in the ava
ianche tomb made little progress today,
and late this afternoon only 40 dead
had been brought out, leaving 45 pas
sengers and railroadmen and an un-
known number of laborers in the gorge.
The searchers are working in the
daytime only. The Great Northern
railroad today sent in Is Alaskan
sledges, on which the bodies will be
taken to a train at Skykomish, to be
carried to Everett and Seattle.
All the railroadmen's homes were at
Everett. Donald Cameron Gilmore,
fireman, aged 80 years, whose body
has been recovered, was formerly a
West Point cadet and his mother is a
prominent resident of Santa Barbara,
Cal. Edgar Lennon of Hunters. Wash.
whose body and that of his wife have
been found, was formerly one of the
leading attorneys of Seattle and has
relatives and business connections in
Walla WaITa.
MANY MAIL SACKS LOST
OF 700 sacks of mail carried away
by the avalanche only $50 have been
recovered. There is no trace whatever
of one mail car and seven clerks and
weighers. In some places cars are
known to be under 20 feet of trees,
snow. earth and rocks.
The Great Northern is using all the
resources at its command to open the
track. Every man and every plow
that can find place to work is busy
night and day. superintendent O'Neill
estimates the actual loss to the road by
destruction of property at S1,00O,00O.
The working force in the avalanche
ruins now consists of / 80 men, Amer
leans. Three of the Greek and Sla-
vonian laborers stole clothing from
the ruins, but they did not actually
rob the dead bodies. The misconduct
of these men aroused such Indignation
that the railroad sent all the IS for
eign laborers away. The corpse rObber
who was caught in the act of taking a
watch from the body of Sol Cohen of
Everett gave his name as Robert Rob
erts, to the disgust of Deputy Sheriff
John Roberts. who arrested him.
Bailets hotel on the edge of the
gorge. lurched toward the slope today
and ii is feared that it will slide into
the gorge. This would be a calamity
owing to the scarcity of shelter.
Another name has been added to the
list of missing-that of Harry Otto
Partridge of Biloxi Miss, a railroad
of the lost engines.
BECK FAMILY FOUND
The bodies of George Beck and wife
of Pleasanton, Cal, and their three
children, Emma, Marion and Baby, have
been recovered. The bodies will be
taken out today and shipped to Cal
ifornia.
The first bodies found were mutt
lated. but those found lower down are
unmarked and the expressions on the
faces is that of persons who never
woke from sleep. The only man who
saw the avalanche, a lodger in a Well
ington hotel and who dashed down the
mountain to Skykomish with the news,
has not yet recovered his senses.
An unpleasant incident at Wellington
is a clash between rival undertakers
The accident occurred in Kings county
and the inquest viii be held in this
county. representative of the Kings
county coroner claims jurisdiction over
the bodies, and. according to the Ever
EFT undertakers, objects TO their taking
charge of any. Everett is in Snoho
icI