Arizona republican., 1910-03-03
Survivors Of Wellington Ava
 IdDChe Cannot Describe Il LATEST ESTIMATE OF DEAD
When the Spokane Express and Overland Mail Were Swept Into Canyon On Tuesday Morning, Place Number at Eighty-four

Everett. Wash. March .-Aecord- ing to lists completed tonight it is estimated by Great Northern officials that the total number of those killed by the avalanche that overwhelmed the Spokane express, will reacU eiShty-four. Eight passengers ard nine trainmen are known to be deld. including A. F. LOngcay, secretary of Superintendent O'Neill Thirty-s ght passengers and twenty-nine railroad employees are missing. Among the passengers yet uuaccounted for are Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Beck and their three children of Pieasantton. Cal
 A comprehensive story of the dis aSter and it's circumstances has not vet been obtained. Several men who saw the catastrophe at Wellington ar rived at Scenic today. but they we're hysterical from horror. and the peril> of the descent of the mountain, anu were unable to describe the scene at Summit and the work of recover ing the bodies.
 While some of the missing may b, found alive the fate of the majority must be death All the injured ar, cared for at Wellington by doctors and nurses sent from here. The res cue party that left last night did not arrive at Wellington until noon.
 The coaches are still buried OH- woman was rescued with two children after twelve hours under the snow and debris. It is believed that all the injured will recover.
 Mrs \. A. Covington of Olympia. rr, lfa- to celebrate the golden wedding at Seattle of her mother and father. Rev J. Covington. superintendent of tn" Washington children's home Mrs NJ Starrett of ChemaniuS. B. C. is als" among the missing with one of her children. Two Of her daughters were killed.
 The first news direct from the scene of the disaster came late to- night when Dr. Cox. one of the Great Northern physicians who went on the first relief train returned from We'll ington. accompanied by three of the survivors. Ray Forsythe. R NJ. La velle and Fireman :. A. Bates.
 Dr. Cox says that none of the in jured are in critical condition When the party left Wellington sixteen were in the hospital. F'orsythe and Bates estimate that not more than twenty of the no persons who were carried into the canyon by the avalanche eS- capped injury. Eleven passenger cars. three locomotives. four electric mo- tors. rotary snow piow. a rotary shed and d sand house were swept away by the slide.
 X member of the first relief party who returned to Everett tonight said that when he reached the scene all the cars were completely buried. Much of the wreckagc was covered by forty feet of snow and all that could b" seen was one partly buried electric motor. two locomotives and Che wreckage of the rotary. All that could be seen of the coaches was a steel pipe sticking out of the snow where Pullman was twisted around d stump. and curtain lay on top
 Forsythe was in car in which there were five women and srNru children. Three woroG and two chd- dren escaped but the others undou't- edly perished. Telling of his eNir- rience Forsythe said it seemed d~ h the car were lifted bodily from the tracks. and held. poised in midair- Suddenly it toppled over the edge anu rolled down the steep embankment- Instantly the air was filled with the shrieks of the injured.
 X fearful storm was raging \ high wind was blowing and there was spectacular electrical display. The first men to extricatc themselves from the wreckage set to work releasing those less fortunate. There were np lights and they carried on the work by the glare of the lightning which was almost incessant.
 This morning the severed hand of a woman was found. On d finger was a ring bearing initials which lead the workers to believe il belonged to Miss Katherine O'Reilly. of Spokane. who is listed among the missing
 Men returning from the secene of the disaster hold out little hope that
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