Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-06
90 ARE KILLED
IA INJURED IN
CANADIAN SLIDE
RESCUERS THREATENED BY
AVALANCHE
SCORES BURIED UNDER TONS OF
DEBRIS
Rogers Pass at Crest of sekIrk Range
Scene Of Disaster When Work
Train Is Overwhelmed by
Snow and Earth
fAsaooIated presal

VANCOUVER, B. c., March 5.-OL
the 106 Canadian Pacific trainmen,
trackmen and lahorers buried by All
avalanche in Rogers pass on the sum-
nit Of the sellsirk range OF the Rocky
Mountains, o.. are dead and IA injured.
Following is list of the identified
Victims:
r.. j. BUCKLEY. conductor.
w. PHILLIPS, engineer.
j. j. FRASER. roadmaster.
Il. r. GRIFFITH. fireman.
n. PETERHU, engineer.
J. McCLEL1IAND. bridgeman.
A. JOHNSON. foreman.
G. ANDERSON. foreman.
+. II. WELANDER, foreman.
ID. ]. MCDONALD, bridgeman.
A. MAHON, brakeman.
G. NICHOLAS, bridge foreman.
Twelve of Bridge Foreman McDon-
AIDS men, names not known.
The remainder are japanese and 9TH
er foreigners.
This afternoon the bodies OF only five
men had been recovered. They were
those of Roadmaster Fraser, Fireman
Griffith, Conductor Buckley, Engineer
Phillips and Japanese.
The bodies of Mail Clerk Richard G.
Bogart and George Hoefer, both of
Spokane, were identified later These
are the first bodies of postal employees
to be taken from the ruins.
Forty-five bodies have been recov-
cred and identified. The bodies of
seven railroad men were taken to Ev-
erett today and the bodies of seven
passengers were taken 10 Seattle.
Additional bodies recovered were
those of A. Pottruff. engineer of the
work train, and A.. Mahon, brakeman.
Another slide occurred on the banks
of the Kicking Horse river near Pal
User today. IT buried the track for
800 feet to a depth of 25 feet.
Another slide is reported from Three
Valley, small point west of Revel-
stoke. 1t is 300 feet long and ten feet
deep.
The work of resculng the dead and
repairing the track is greatly retarded
by blizzard that is blowing through
the pass. There was also another big
slide of snow and rock this morning a
mile east of the spot where the men
were overwhelmed. 1t destroyed a por-
ton of a snowshed and buried the
track for 400 yards to depth of sixty
feet. There were no victims in the
last avalanche.
Today's eastbound express left here
al 3:15. as usual.
Traffic VIII Be Detoured
Until the tracks have been cleared
passenger traffic east and west bound
will be handled via the Arrow Lakes,
Nelson and the Crows Nest Pass rail-
way.
The men were a working crew en-
gagged in clearing away small slide
which had come down early in the
evening. They were spread out over
the slide working rotary engine
over it, when a large slide came down
and carried them to their death in the
canyon below. 1t was believed that all
of the hundred men engaged were
killed, but during the early morning
ii was found that many had escaped.
Last night was one of the worst that
was ever experienced on the railways
of the Canadian Rockies. There was a
heavy storm of rain and sleet and some
times snow, and weather conditions
were at their worst. A storm also oc-
Cured in the Arrow Lakes. Communi-
cation with the east is down. A hong
section of telegraph line was carried
away by the slide.
The accident occurred near a snow
shed one mile west of Rogers pass and
at the actual summit of the Selkirks.
Seventy-five per cent of the dead were