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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-03-01

Wallace, Feb. 2s-tSpeciai.) )-Nine-
teen are reported to be dead and the
total death roll may reach many times
that figure when the last chapter Is
written of the most disastrous ava
lanche which has ever visited this. re-
gon. Up Canyon creek. whose mar
row course through the mountains has
been. In years past. the scene of SO
many tragic occurrences. two tremen-
dors slides occurred between sunset
last night and sunrise this morning.
carrying death and destruction To the
busy mining towns of Mace and
Burke. Perhaps it viii never be
known how many lives were lost In
the disaster; the work Of rescue Is
50 difficult and the weather conditions
are 50 nnfavorablc that 1t will be
weeks before the last of the debris Is
removed At midnight tonight, "a
hours after the first of the slides.
there are within one OF score Of
dead and many injured-how many 1t
Is Impossible To tell on account of the
confusion which rcigns. However. none
Of the injured who were dug from
the snow today have died. at the hos
pitais tonight II Is said that the
chances Of all Of them are good for
recovery. one Of the most seriously
injured Is Mrs. Paseoe. wife Of the
superintendent of the Standard Mann
moth mine. She, however. Is better
..rT
husband and three children, who were
in the house with her were instantly
killed. On account of her condition
she has not been informed of their
fate.
OF the others of the injured, 1t Il
said that they will probably recover.
There are comparatively few frac-
tured bones In the list of injuries.
most of the wounds are from the I'M
pact of stones and broken timbers,
swept down by the slide; these
bruised and stabbed the bodies of
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-03-01
VETERAN RA|LROADER
IS DEAD UNDER SNOW

Nels Thompson, one of the victims
of the disaster at Mace. was we'll
known In Missoula, where he has rel :
atives. At the time Of his death he
was a section foreman on the o. r. &
n. railway, an occupation he had fol-
lowed for many years. He was I'm Mis-
soula two weeks ago, at Which time he
left for Spokane. where he leaves a
wife and two daughters and a son,
the children all being nearly grown
Mr.. Thompson was for time sta :
toned at Victor, where he vas en-
gagged on the section of the Bitter
Root branch of the Northern Pacific
railway. For many years he was sta
toned at DE Smet, where he became
known to all the railroad men. He
was well liked and popular He was a
brother In law to Mrs. Albert May
wife of the chief of the Missoula fire
department. and was a member In
good standing of Missoula lodge, No
16, A. r.. & A. M. Fire Chief May
was to nave left last night for Mace
going by way of Spokane, on the first
available train. Mrs Thompson Is II
at the family home In Spokane. Mr.
Thompson was intending to take his
son to Mace next week to go to worl
with himself
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-03-01
Is RESCUED ALIVE
FROM SNOWY
TOMB

Wallace, Feb. Specially
Alter having been entornbed In the
disastrous snow and landslide at
Burke for eight hours, james Rodg-
ers, aged 22 years, was rescued
alive at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
Rodgers was caught under q por-
Ton of the blanket of debris that
was preclpitated upon the little
mining camp early this morning
and buried to a depth of several
feet. Luckily for him he was not
struck by any rock or earth of suf-
hcient hardness to XIII him. but was
completely entombed In the snow.
So dense and heavy was the blan-
ket above him that he was unable
to dig his way out, and In an al
most eomatose condition was dis
covered by the force of rescuers
that worked diligently all day In an
effort to save the living and recover
tho bodies of the dead After being
taken from the snowy tomb Rodg-
ers was removed to a place where
he could be given medical care,
and 1t is said that he will recover
without suffering any serious ef-
fects from his narrowing experience.
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with his son. John A.. Mcleod. was
rescued from his perious position only
after a force of men had shoveled for
several hours. .At the time the slide
occurred ] was sleeping In small
bunkroom just off the compressor
room. Ny son was on shift on the
compressor Suddenly was aroused
from sleep by my son running into the
bunkroom crying Papa. papa... The
slide struck the building with great
force and we were buried under a
whlrling mass Of snow and timbers.
My son was knocked upon the bed
and lay upon me. With the excep-
tion Of my right hand was unable to
move. | worked this free and man
aged to scrapc away sufficient snow
to give US air.
The slide Is Approximately 1900 feet
long and save for Il few places, Is
packed as solid az Ice. Tonight cold
wind s sweeping the canyon and I'M
pedng those who are working he
rol1nlly In the hope that a few more
lives may be saved. Those who have
lourncyc1 from Wallace tn Mace and
Burke say that the dead PROBABLY
never will be known accurately as the
huge slide can never be entirely re-
moved
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-03-01
MINING CAMPS ARE BURIED
BENEATH TONS OF DEBRIS
HURLED DOWN UPON THEM
Monster Avalanche Hures Down Mountain Sdc Strikes Ridge
Bounds Into Air and Descends Upon Mace, Covering 1t
Like Blanket---Town and Sleeping Inhabitants
Engulfed in the Slide
The Freakish Movement Of the Slide

IS
hills which
gain eacls II
"ga
board the of he IN the
theni
$ d o
the canyon
heard the
fromth 0 thesn
0
cne the features Of tornado Everywhere the vicinity are evidences OF its awful
rushed from their homes the nights darkest hour awakened by the
the
Intellectual buffer
the resuts
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-03-01
TWO GREAT ROADS
BATTLE WITH SNOW

Unprecedented weather Tor this time
of the year is causing great amount
OF trouble and expense to railroads
h western Montana and the coeur
q 1Alenes. Conditions are seemingly
progressing from bad 10 worse and
one Slide and washout follows 50
closely upon the other that they ure
becoming tile rule instead of the ex-
eeption.
The scene of trouble has seemingly
shifted from the east IA the west
during this winter, The Dakotas and
eastern Montana have not caused
delays this winter that usually orig
mate In that section. but this has
more than been made up In the west,
The Cascade range is the cause of u
great deal Of delay, slides and wash
outs practically paralszlng all traffic.
y A. bad Washout near Pasco has
stopped all eastern movement and no
trains from the coast reached here un-
til $50 yesterday afternoon. Another
Is expected about $3.50 In the morning.
The Occur d'Alene line OF the North
ern Pacific i has been nearly entirely
blockaded for the last two days
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hesitancy, even though II WAS known
that another slide might come at any
time.
this morning another rumble and It's
succeeding roar of impact told of IA
second disaster. Burke was the scene
OF the later disaster and the town at
the head of the canyon was sorcy
stricken. This slide was not as ex-
tensiye as the earlier one and In
cluded only "A part of the town. How
many 1t caught can only be conjec-
tured tonight. as the rescuers have
made slow progress. although vast
amount Of snow has been removed.
There are many houses Involved In
the ruin here. The estimates of the
number of persons buried beneath the
snow vary from 80 To 100. None Of
the larger buildings Of the town were
caught
This morning. daylight revealed n
pitable spectacle In the canyon There
were wreck and ruin. widely spread
In two places the canyon was abso-
lntely filled with snow and lee, the
mass Which had slid down the hillside
containing Immense stones, gathered
In the lightning dash down the preeipi-
itous slopes, Scattered about were
fragments of houses. which the nigh,
before had been the shelters Of happy,
comfortable homes.
Everywhere was disaster. every
whore were tho evidences Of the aw-
ful destructivcness Of the visitation
lT. the awful agents of death which
nad come under the cover of darkness
ana bad done their work too well. IL
Is Impossible adequately to describe
the scene. ON every hand were evil
dences of the terrific force Of the
slides. 1t was appalling.
Here, a house entirely clear Of the
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-03-01


Yesterdays train out ot Misseufa was
tied up at Satese with 81 passengers
and Will not attempt a passage II iii.
hill until morning, Wire service With
Wallace has been Interrupted but the
local office got the Wallace office for
a fow minutes last evening and
learned that the slides had not seri-
ously effected The road As tna rotary
was reported past Larson, and unless
some unfeported slide Is blocking the
track. No 1sa. tied up AT saltese.
should make Wallace III the morning
The Great Northern is reported coin-
pletely tied up on the kalispell III.
vision. The track through the mqng~
tains on that division ~ one Of the
worst stretches OF road IN the country
during this kind of weather Many of
the cuts through this region are SO
narrow that the snow has 10 he taken
out on flat cars and In lnany places
the rotary is forced To back, as the
snow can only be thrown on one side
of the track. Train M Z, on tho
Great Northern, will probably be do
(1ontInued on Page Thfee) i
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THREE MEN KILLED
IN ANOTHER
SLIDE

AT noon yesterday discovery was
made that there had been slide
during Sunday night at the mine
OF the Carbonate Hill Mining COM
pany. near the famous S trestle on
the Snake branch. This slide, took
with 1t the entire plant of the COM
pany and killed three men:
ERIC HOLM.
: JOHN HOLM.
GUS BERGMAN.
The hills at this point are almost
entirely denuded of their timber,
fire and the axe having removed all
of the trees, and snoWslldes of many
winters have left their paths on the
slopes. This means. Of course, that
when great weight of loose snow
piles up. without the anchorage Of
frozen hold upon the earth, there
Is certain to be slide. The unus.
ual depth Of snow this season makes
II probable that there will be more
slides In this district unless there
is radical drop In temperature.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-03-01

was not III destructive ~ life ag this
one This hig slide came down Just
above tho row Of houses at the Black
Bear mine: its lower edge caught four
or five or the cottages and the NUM-
ber Of dead was not more than five pr
six. But yesterdays slide had its
very center against the big boarding
house: its upper wing caught the
house Of tho superintendent, the last
cottage In the row. This accounts for
the high total OF tile list III dead.
Terrific Force.
This 1895 slide came with such ter
rifle force that the snow piled nearly
80 feet deep above the railway tracks.
It's weight Of snow was removed with
shoycls and n rotary plow But the
force of the slide packed the snow
upon the O. n. Il n. tracks so deep
and 80 solid that the rotary could
make no impression upon 1t, u was
not until summer that the line was
opened and then the track was cleared
by the use of giant nozzles, hy-
draulic line having been laid from
the fumes on the mountain side
which supply the power houses aud
the mills below
! Scores of smaller slides have oc-
CURED here; there has been no win
ter without lis record OF some slide.
| But 1t has been only those winters
when late and heavy fall of snow
has piled up great weight without
/ anchorage that have furnished the
/ disastrous avalanches of which yester-
/ days vast slide IN an example Tho
wonder Is that the people In the cam
yon did not heed the warning given
] by old residents that big slide was
| probable. This warning. the dis
patches say. was given Friday and
was repeated Saturday and Sunday.
But the people had heard the warm
| ing so often that they regarded II ~
! q wolf, cry and did not leave their
| homes.
In Burke canyon have been fought
| sanguinary engagements In the labor
wars of the coeur d'Alencs. II was at
the old Frisco Mill just below Mace.
that the great tragedy of the strike
| of 1892 was enacted. II was here tlTat
! the uynaH1llh WIS stu Hb@u lne npbn
| chute into the mill. wrerking the
structure and killing the men nj work
| there. 1t will be remembered that
Harry Orchard was credited with par
| tieipation In this outrage. II was tho
dastardly act In the whole list of
| crimes that made the strike OF 1899 4
! notorious struggle
/ Carrying Dynamite
/ II WIS down Bnrka canyon too,
] that striking miners came In 1893.
/ upon stolen train. carrying vast
/ quantities of dynamite which they
| took down the creek TO Kellogg where
they destroyed the Bunker Hill Dc
| Sullivan mill and blotted out several
lives. This was the preliminary step
In the strike which led to the estab-
lishment of the famous bull pen aud
the inauguration for the second time,
of military law In the Occur d'Alenes.
Yesterdays tragic events form an-
other chapter III the sanguinafy his
tory OF Burke canyon Deplorable as
the story is. ii is gratifying that the
tale Is not one Of human depraylty.
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Spokane. Feb. 2S.--Nineteen are now
known to bc dead ut Mace and Burke
and the death list will probably be
Increased ns the rescuers penetrate
the debris The fight against time ana
cold has been waged bravely and per-
sistently by the little army of men
who are hoping to find under the
heaps of ruin In the ravines some who
have escaped death. Although the
greatest of difficulties have thrown
encouragement In their paths. these
men have dug and torn and strained
frantically for more than "A hours.
pausIng scarcely to warm their numb
ed bodies before again seizlng their
shovcls and returning 10 their work.
Old men, young boys and men of the
cloth have joined their efforts with
those OF the abcbodies In the common
cause Mace is situated on the creek
bed and the mountains rise on either
side or the canyon. The slopes nave
been well lcnudcd of trees by the
slide. The main body of the ava
lancle. which started from the top
of Custer mountain. passed beyond
Inc lDWH, uHQ hiN pPpo2''N
slope with terrific force. rushed up the
mountainsidc. The canyon liz filled
up to depth of from 40 to so feet.
The damage to the town was done
by an offsboot from the main slide,
which carried away the construction
train on the track az II plunged into
the ravine, and shooting up the other
side, stopped short distance beyond
the Pascoe home. The boarding
house OF the Standard mine, where
about 300 miners were sleeping, was
missed only about l20 feet The first
slide was that which wiped out al
most all of the town of Mace. five
miles up the canyon from here. This
catastrophe occurred at 1916 Sunday
night. while all the population except
the men on the night shift In the
STANDARD and In the other mines In
tho locality were sleeping, The Burke
avalanche occurred at $3.50 this morn
in-.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-03-01

Dut et the canyon which reaches out
from Wallace ID the north and which
extends To Burke at its upper end,
have come millions OF silver and lead.
the wealth If the hills that rise
abruptly on either side. In this can
yon have been enacted many tragic
scenes in the labor wars and In the
conflicts with the elements which
have characterized the development Of
the richest lcad-mining district In the
world.
II Is a narrow defilc. this famous
canyon. In places its floor IL just
wide enough for tho little stream
which flows through II and the two
railway lines which lead up to the
mines jostlc and push each other all
the way up: In places the same ties
serve for the two lines. SO closely are
they crowded into the narrow space
which nature has allowed them. The
towns which are located along the
canyon stretch along these lines of
railway. They are towns of single
street. which Is formed by planking
. over the railway ties: along this street
are lined the houses which make UP
the towns, stuck In between the rail-
way and the base of the hill, Into
which builders have burrowed. to gain
space to set the small structures
] which house the people OF the towns
In each town the company board
i ing house Is the principal building,
on either side of 1t extend the cot
tages which are the homes of the men
with families; these houses are stuck
! In wherever there has been found n
| space large enough. There Is the lit
tie group OF stores and there Is the
! line OF saloons. Up or down. as the
case may be. is the office OF the min
/ Ing company. The hoist and the mill
complete each group. Unattractiye arc
these towns in the extreme. But they
have produced great wealth and they
/ have been the scene of many stirring
/ incidents.
Yesterdays snowsldes are not the
/ first that have visited the canyon
! with destructive force At least two
doath-deallng avalanches have swept
down the abrupt walls of the canyon
one at Burke and the other near
where yesterdays slide occurred at
/ Gem.
No Avenue OF Escape.
Burke Is ut the head of the canyon
and Is more crowded than any OF thu
other towns. The mountain sides al
Burke are as abrupt as mountain
sides can grow. An they come 50
close together at their bases as T.
leave no room except the little Silt
which II filled by tiny houses. two
ose-loekrd railway lines and the
creek There Is absolutely no avenue
of escape from n snowslide coming
down the hills at this point. except
/ down the canyon The slide which
dashed down the hills In 1890 filled Tho
gnlch completely and 1t Is likely thai
yesterdays destructive avalanche re-
peated the performance. The greai
mass of snow filled the canyon from
Side 10 side: everything In the town
was buried.
The slide Of 1895. which cam,
down the hills near where yesterday,
avalanche destroyed the town of Mace
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DEAD AT MACE

K. II. PASCOE, Superin-
tcndent Of the Standard
mine.
EDDIE PASCOE. son Of X.
III. Pascoe.
INEZ PASCOE, daughter Of
X. LII. pascoc.
MRS. ED KITrRELL, wife
of the bookkeeper of the
u. Stores company.
Two Kittrell Children.
MRS. JOHN FENNELL.
AL LAIRD.
MRS. LAIRD, mother Of Al
Laird.
RICHARD MOYLE.
NELS THOMPSON.
7. B. MOORE.
x Y asssB
DEAD AT BURKE
DAVE SHEPHERD.
DICK RICHOTT.
Two Children of AL Newman.
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cARTRlcHT SAFE.

There WAS some anxiety yesterday
among the Mlssoula friends Of Charles
Cartright, formerly a Missoula base
ball hero, and now a mining super
intendent In the canyon. but 1t was
learned last night that he Is safe,
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-03-01
INJURED AT MACE

Mrs. II. II. Pascoc
Miss Katie Pascoc.
Mrs. Il. w. Hooper.
Mrs. Gust.
William George.
George Gibson.
Mrs. George Gibson.
Mrs. Abe Winchester.
Others taken out alive ut
Mace slide: Six children
of William George, Miss
George, B, 7. Barnett and
wife, Mrs.S George Hooper,
William Brand, wife and
child; John Fenncll; Will
liam Newton, wife and chill.
dren; Gano Duncan, wife and
child; Mrs. Gassaway; Ell
Wheatley, wife and child;
Paul Edwards, wife and three
.seliilt!1 M Thomas Flanagan.
INJURED AT BURKE
Al Newman.
Mrs. AL Newman.
James Rogers.
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BATTLING BRAVELY
TO RESCUE VICTIMS
Fighting Time and Cold, Little Army Of Men
Is Digging Persisiently for the Dead
and the Dying.

The Hope That There May Be Some Beneath the Mass Of
Snow and Ice Who Are Still Alive and Who May BE
Saved if Reached in Time, Spurs the Bands Of Sturdy
Rescucrs on to Dogged Fight Against the Greatest Of
Difficulties and Discouragements in Their Path