Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-03-11
KILLEDIN
TOWN OF MACE, IDAHO, UNDER
SNOW And DIRT.
More Than IS Families Suffer Great
Loss Of Life Probably rs Lives Lost
Three Box Cars Loaded with Sec
tion Hands Swept Away Rescuers
Sent From Wallace.


Ianche which has threatened the little
town of Mace, five miles up the canyon
from here, for two days, tonight, with
8 roar heard in Wallace, descended and
buried in its resistless path 25 families,
probably rs souls.
How many of these victims are dead /
will not be known until morning, per
haps not for many days, for reports tell
of snow filing the canyon to depth
of so to rs feet.
The dead bodies recovered;
Edgar Kittrell, miner, wife and two
babies.
Dick Moyel, head cut open.
Mrs. Laird.
Mrs. Fennell.
Edgar Pascoe, son Of Standard mine
superintendent.
Inez Pascoe, daughter Of superin-
tendent
L A. Pascoe and wife, missing, sup
posed to be dead.
Three boxcars containing so section
men in the employ of the Northern Pa
ciic were standing on the sidetracks
when the slide occurred. All are sup
posed to have lost their lives. Fifteen
houses have been swept away, according
to latest information.
At the Mace boarding house the snow
is 30 feet deep and covers all the fiat
from the boarding house to the end Of
town toward Burke.
Hundreds of men were awakened
from their beds in Wallace as soon as
the extent Of the catastrophe became
known. Special trains were made up,
the first leaving for Mace about mid
night and the second at / O'Clock.
Hardware merchants opened their
establishments and shovels were had for
the asking. Every able-bodied man in
Wallace that was possible to secure has
hurried to the scene. Fire bells changed
to get out the populace, and there will
be no rest until the victims are brought
out, dead or alive.
information furnished by Manager
Clark Of the North Idaho and the Inter
state Telephone companies, is to the
effect that the telephone wires to Mace
are swept down and buried, while the
high power lines Of the Washington
Water Power company are also de-
stroyed, The only communication at this
hour is from stations nearer or through
some one sent back for more materials
The little mining town of Mace lies
between precipitous mountain sides, a
struggling line of cottages in the creek
bottom, bisected by the rails Of the
Northern Pacific and Oregon Railroad
Navigation companies. Its one indus
try is mining and its big mine, the
STANDARD.
With scarce dividing line per
ceptible, the towns of Black Bear, Gem
Mace and Burke form long string Of
houses the entire six miles from Wallace
to the latter town. Mace has popula.
tion of 100, all, with the exception Of q
few storekeepers and schoolteachers, in
the employ Of the mine.
Never since Burke, another little
canyon mining camp, was almost wiped
out by landslide almost exactly 2C
years ago on February 1, 1890, has Q
Occur d'Alene district town been SC
sorely stricken by winters wrath al
was Mace tonight.
On that memorable occasion the can
yon was filed 1000 feet across by q
grinding mass of trees, stumps, eartl
and boulders so to rs feet deep packed
almost as solid as ice. Its track dowr
the mountain side was swept as clear
as floor and the deafening roar wa,
heard for miles up and down the guleh
Chinook Starts 1890 Slide.
Chinook winds and warm rainl
started the snow sliding on Burk,
mountain, increasing in velocity will
every foot down the mountain, until il
gained such Roadway and force thai
only binding mist and roar warned
the score families of miners of tn,
approach. Surface trans were crushed
and twisted and cabins ground as egg
shells.
Warning was yesterday given resi-
dents of the canyon towns that condi
tions similar to those prevailing be
fore the famous Burke slide prevailed
but none seemed to take heed.
Four Killed at Avery.
Thursday night snow and landslid
snuffed out the lives of three pros
pectors and a woman at Avery, a smal
town on the new Milwaukee road nea
the Montana line. All were in tn
cabin at dinner when the snow descend
ed with rush.
During the winter of 1888 the sno'
piled high in the canyons and nevs
since has such heavy fall been II
corded until this year. Mining me
have been jubilant because of Il
moisture promised for spring operation
Chinook winds accompanied by RAJ
have prevailed since Thursday with Il
snow from two to ten feet deep.