Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-03
Horrors of Avalanche at
Wellington Grow Hourly


NJ. O. White conductor.
Il. NJ Iavelle. Cook.
The train employees all lived in Ev
erett.
Employees Missing.
Beagle. express messenger
Bennington. fireman.
Richard G. Bogart. mail clerk
Campbell conductor.
/ H. j. Diehl, express messenger,
/ H. A Due.
| Duncan, porter
John Fox. mail clerk
Dan G. Gilman, fireman.
George Hoeger. mail clerk
j. f. Jarnagin, engineer.
| Jewels. Brakeman.
jerks. fireman.
/ Jones, fireman.
Kennel, brakeman.
Ed. Lindsay. conductor.
Macdonald. Brakeman.
Frank Martin. engineer.
Parry book, conductor, and his
brakeman.
]. L. Petit, conductor.
W. Il. lkaycroft. brakeman.
Strawmyer, brakeman
Hiram Touslee. Spokane.
John Tucker mail clerk.
Two unknown mail weighers
Stenographer car A-16.
Porter car A-lG.
The first news direct from the scene
Of the disaster was received here
shortly before midnight tonight when
DR. Cox one of the Great Northern
physicians who left on the first relief
train, returned from Wellington, ac-
companied by three of the Survivors.
Ray Forsyth, Il. M. Ia Nelle and FIRE
man 5. A. Bates. Dr.. Cox stated that
none of the injured are in critical
condition. The majority 81 them are
only slightly hurt. When the party
'Iert WELLINGTON sixteen were in the
temporary hospital
FORSYTH and Bates estimate that not
more than twenty of the ll0 people
who were carried into the canyon by
the avalanche escaped death or in
jury Eleven passenger cars, three
locomotives four electric motors, one
rotary plow the rotary shed and the
sand houses were swept away by the
slide.
A member Of the first relief party
who returned. to Everett tonight said
thar when he reached the scene all
the cars were completely buried Much
of the wreckage was covered by forty
feet OF snow and an that could be
seen was one partly buried electric
,greckage of the rotary. All that
could be seen OF the coaches was
steel pipe sticking out Of the snow
where q Pullman ear Was twisted
around stump and curtain that lay
on top.
Ray Forsyth ono Of the injured
was in a car in which !
there were dve women and seven |
Three women and two |
escaped but The others un |
ioubtedly 9erished.
In telling of the experience Forsyth |
said that it seemed as if the car was I
lifted bodily from the tracks and Was |
held poised in mid-air. Suddenly IL |
-oppled over the edge ana rolled |
down the steep cmbankment. In
stantly the air was filed with The
ihrielIs OF the injured A fearful
storm was raging. A high wind was
blowing and there was a spectacular
electrical display.
The first men to eXtricate them
ielves from the mass OF Wreekase set
o work at releasing those less fortu
late. They had no lights and carried
IN their work by the hare OF the
lightning, which was almost inces-
ant
This morning the severed hand of
Woman was found on finger was
ring bearing the initials which lend
he workers to believe that it belong
d to Miss Katherine O'Reilly, Of
pokane, who is listed among the
Missing. Men returning from the
Gene of the disaster hold little hope
hat any OF the missing will be re-
iscovered alive. This tends to
the belief that the total
lumber OF dead ultimately viii reach |
iehty-four.
Fireman $. A. Bates, one Of the in
lred, was buried under snow six |
ours. Other survivors heard his
houts and dug him out before the .
rst party of rescuers arrived.
Trainmaster A. r. Blackburn, who .
as sleeping in superintendent !
''Neills private car was taken out OF
he wreckage alive. His only words
iere Look out for the others. then ,
e lapsed into unconsciousncss
Station Agent F'lannery Of Yelling
on, dug Blackburn out OF the snow
nd started 20 carry him to place of .
lfety. small Slide struck them :
nd Flannery was knocked down. }
lackburn's body slipped from his
rasp ana was carried into a small "
-ream whore it disappeared from
ght. q
Last reports indicate that the ava
inche swept down the mountain :
boye wellington AT 45 a. M, in Z Z
cad of al 1870. This is the state
tent of the survivors and it is borne .
ut By the finding of watches stopped :
that hour
Forty hours have passed since the
mnders Of the high Cascades wrote '
new story OF the danger Of winter
aveling through the winding passes
the mountain.
In that time no detailed account Of 4
hat happened when the Spokane ey- i
'ess was taken from its shelter at !
e' gateway Of the Cascade tunnel v
I'd buried at the bottom Of the can q
IN has been received. 81
The only stories of the disaster have
me from those adventurous pass
lgers and engineers, who climbed ov-
the mountain trails. Several men,
leaving the sights of horror ut Il
ellington and arriving at Scenic, the p
arrest relief station, were unable to u
scribe what they had seen. The =,
.rils OF their descent OF the mountain
ld the cries Of the wounded in the
[ below the track. has made them .,
-
To add to the difficulties OF the sit So
Ition the only telegraph wires into th
enic from the west went down 20
ain tonight in
Rescue parties are working desper-
ely in the hope of saving a few at "
ist Of the passengers in the buried
aches.
The day coach and the smoker have ~
4 been found. They were smashed 81
nffaetiVolx as though tons of iron re