Arizona republican., 1910-03-02
Buried Deep By an Ava
 |anChe In the Cascades TWENTY THREE LIVES LOST
The Victims Were Passen- gers of. Westbound Train Which Had Been Stalled for a Week at the Tunnel Entrance.

Everett. Wash. March 1.-Twenty- three are known to be dead. twenty five missing and q score injured as result of an avalanche which swept the mountain side at Wellington at the west portal of the Cascade tunnel and brushed two Great Northern trains. one the westbound Spokane Express. and the other the overland Mail train. off narrow ledge of high line. hurling them to the bottom of d canyon. 200 feet below From reports received at the Great Northern offices it is evident that the greatest loss of life was among the passengers of the Spokane local.
 The wrecked trains lie piled on top of each other 200 feet below the sid ing upon which they stood when the avalanche swept over them. The cars were crushed into kindlinG. No one on the trains escaped Injury. The danger from the slides is not over.
 Superintendent O'Neill's private car. three locomotives and four big cleo tric motors. used to haul trains in the Cascade tunnel. were buried.
 MOSN bl Ailf pdSH'h6'AC N'A' on the Westbound. Spokane Express. which had been stalled in the noun tains since February 2i The other train was the fast Transcontinental Mail. with no passengers. The names of the passengers are unknown here and the wires in the mountains are interrupted The fate of the train crews is unknown. It is feared that F. A Longcoy, Superintendent O'Neilrs secretary. is among the dead. O'Neill. who has been directing the work of fighting the snow blockade for the past ten days. was not in the car when the slide occurred. and es- capped injury
 The avalanche swept down the mountain side shortly after o'clock this morning and was a half mile long. Snow. stones and uprooted trees were piled several feet deep. Most of the passengers were asleep and re- ceived no warning. The train and To- comotives were completely buried. It was six hours after the avalanche be- fore rescue parties located them. Will ing hands at once proceeded to the task of rescuing the living and re- moving the dead from the debris.
 An appeal was at once sent to Ev- erett for help and a train load of phy- sicians and helpers started for the scene.
 Owing to the fact that previous slides had destroyed sections of the track. the rescue train could only go as far as Scenic. Wellington is at the west portal of the Cascade tunnel, a thousand feet above Scenic. and al- most directly over the little resort. If the rcscuers follow the tortuous windings of the railroad as it climbs the mountain. they will have to walk ten miles. but by taking a mountain trail they can cut the distance to three miles. X second rescue train contain ing a wrecking outfit and additional workers and undertakers. left Everett at o'clock tonight.
 Reports received tonight say that the Great Northern power house which furnishes electric power to op- crate trains through the Cascade tun- mel. and depot and water tank were the railroad boarding house was badly wrecked. X number of the dead and injured are railroad men and residents of Wellington. Late tonight it was stater that twenty bodies had been re- covered.