New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-02
TWO TRAINS BURIED
IN U1SHINGTON.
Hith Three Locomotives and
-Four Electric Motors-
70 Hut, p Missing.

Everett. Wash March 2.-SWeeping
down the steep mountain side on the
west slope of the Cascades yesterday
/ an avalanche OF SHOW overwhelmed two
Great Northern trains three loconao>
tiyes. four huge electric motor engines
and brought death to more than u score
! of persons, according to meagre reports
that have drifted in from Wellington,
station near the disaster.
Most of the dead are believed to have.
been passengers on an express train
bound from Spokane 10 Seattle and
which had been stalled in the noun
tains since Thursday. The passengers
were asleep when the slide came. The
other train was transcontinental fast
mail, which carried no passengers
! Twenty bodies were recovered yester-
day and last night, aud twenty injured
were rescued. Some twenty-five are
missing
The private car of superintendent
O'Nein of the western division of the
Great Northern was buried with the rest
of the train.
! 1t is feared that \. T. Longcoy. pr
is among the dead Mr. O'Neill who has
been directing the fight against the snow
blockade for the last ten days. was not
in the car at the time. He esCa ped in
jury.
Overwhelmed at Tunnel.
The trains We're overwhelmed near the
west portal of the Cascade tunnel. All
I,i-
/ teen miles of the side.
! As soon as word reached Everett, 100
miles west q train with physicians and
nurses started for the scene This was
/ followed by a second train carrying un-
dertakers. wreckinS outfits and laborers.
AS sections of the railroad track had
been carried away farther down the
mountains the rescuers could get no
nearer than fifteen miles of Wellington.
! They made the rest of the distance from
Scenic. 10000 feet below the tunnel, by
! foot over the mountain trails.
! The avalanche swept down the noun
side just before sunrise. 1t was half
mile long. The cars and locomotives
were buried deep and it was six hours
before rescuers could reach them.
Power House Swept Away.
Reports say that the Great Northern
power house. which furnishes electric
power TO operate trains through the Cas-
cade tunnel, and the station and water
/ tank We're swept away by the avalanche.
1 The passengers had been eating at the
railroad boarding house. but had slept in
! the Pullman cars Two days ago sew
! eral passengers, fearing a dsa ster of
this kind, it is said. asked Superintend-
! ent O'Neill TO have the train moved back
! into the Cascade tunnel, where it would
be protected Mr.. O'Neil is said to have
declared that the train was perfectly
safe on the siding at Wellington and or
dered it left there
Reports of the number of passengers
on the train vary. The railroad COM
pany says that there We're only thirty
persons on the train. but men who. tired
Of the delay. walked out over the snow
to Skyhomish. where they could get a
train. say that more than sixty persons
were on board.
Spokane Wash. March 1.-Workng des
perately and almost exhausted. hundreds
of miners are trying to-day to dig from
hacked ice. snow and vreckage the VIC
tins of the six Northern Idaho avalanches
which occurred within the last two days
The death list was increased TO thirty
one TO-DAY and II is believed more dead
will be found in the spintered cabins which
housed the families Of the miners. Not
until tht sun melts the mountain of snow
will the list of known dead be completed.
So fa- thirty men. women and children
have been rescued from the Mace slide by
the miners, who re still working in shifts.
Eleven are known to be dead and eight
badly hurt there At Burke five are known
to be dead and two badly injured. At Car
Donate Hill. where the third slide occurred.
at least two are dead and half a dozes are
injured
ogden, Utah. March 1.-Flood conditions
almost unprecedented have cut off the Ell
tire Northwest and tied up traffic on half
a dozen transcontinental railroads Tha US
in the mountains have caused avalanches
that have swept away mountain towns and
sections Of railroad tracks in various places
from Nevada to British Columbia. The ex
act number of deaths probably Wfll not
he known until summer.
Four transcontinental lines into Washing
ton and Oregon are blockadcd. Only one
ia ilroad is operating into Salt Lake City. /
Several hundred westbound passengers are (
held in ogden. Through traffic on the Ore !
gon Short Line was suspended to-day, but /
will probabl-- De resumed Tomorrow. The
Denver & Rio Grandc is the only road en-
tering Ogden that reports through trains ,
in opera ton.