Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-01
Nineteen Known Dead in Slide
Which Swept Mining Camps
Of Mace and Burke With the
Death List Growing.
RESCUE WORKERS TOLL.
DESPERATELY ALL NIGHT
Construction Train Rolls Down
Mountain Side; Destroys Ey-
erything in Its PATH Sleep
ing People Hurled to Eternity,


fBy Morning Journal snecinI reasea Wire
Spokane, Wash. Feb 2s.-A third
avalanche in addition to those al
Mace and Burke, Idaho, destroyed tn.
camp of the Carbonate Hin Minins
company near the IS" bridge at AIul.
ian, IDAHO about noon Sunday Three
are reported dead as follows.
GUS BERGLUND
JOHN HOLM.
ERlCK HOLMAN, miners.
The body Of Gus Berglund has been
recovered
Nineteen now are known To be dead
in the avalanches that nearly obliter-
ated Mace and Burke last night and
this morning, and the death list will
probably be largely increased as the
rescuers penetrate the debris
The fight against time and cold has
been waged brayely and persistently
by the little army Of men who are
hoping to find under the heaps of
ruin In the rayines some who have es-
capped death. Although the greatest
of difficulties have thrown discourage.
ment in their paths. these men have
dug and torn and strained frantiCally
for MOI e. than twenty fo,ir hours pans
inc scarcely to warm their numbed
bodies before rsain sei1ing their show
els and returning to their work Old
na.n and young boys have joined their
efforts with those of the bodied
in the common cause.
finger sticking above the sur
face of the snow was responsible for
saving Mrs George Gibson's life, who
WAS buried in the slide at Mace. For
more than an hour the woman lay
buried with only finger prOtruding
above the snow. Rescucrs stumbled
over the rough ground by the light of
lanterns, and saw the Hnger. They
dug her out with great difficulty. She
was half smothered and almost frozen
when rescued. Her condition is
serious.
Tonight survey oi the situation at
Mace shows that twelve dead bodies
have been recovered ana that thirty
seven persons are injured as a reslt
OF the slide. while others are believed
to be buried under the snow ana de-
brs
At Burke, MI. and Mrs A. l.. New
man and James Rogers were among
those caught in the early morning
avalanche. They We're rescued but
are not expected to live. Rogers was
buried eight hours before being res
cued.
Mace is situated on the creek bed
and the mountains rise high on either
side OF the canyon The slopes have
been denuded Of trees by the mines
The main body of the avalanche which
started from the top of Custer noun
tain. passed beyond the town, and
striking the opposite slope with ter
rifle force, rushed up the mountain
side. The canyon is filled to a depth
of from forty to fifty feet.
The damage to the town was done
by an offshoot from the main slide (
which carried q construction train
from the track as ii plunged into the
ravine and rolling up the other side (
demolished the houses in its path, (
stopping a short distance beyond the /
Pascoe home. The boarding house Of
the Standard mine, where about 800
miners were sleeping. was missed by
only 1870 feet.
The slide which wiped out almost
all of the town OF Mace, five miles up
the canyon was the first This catas-
trophe occurred at l0;45 Sunday night
while all the population except the
men on the night shift in the mines
were sleeping. The Burke avalanche
occurred at $50 this morning. That
more lives We're not lost at Burke is
due to the presence OF mind of Seaman
s. Rowe. foreman oil the Hecla mine.
Realizing the danger which threatened
the sleeping and unsuspecting citizens
of the other town a mile further up
the stream. he sent Bert Clement on
urge them TO seek safety.
by n sad caprice of fate four OF
those who lost their lives at Burke
We're members of the rescue party
which had been at work all night at
Mace. They were David Shepherd
Dick Richot, William Painter and
James Rogers. These men We're
among the first to respond to the call
for succor when the news of the Mace
disaster reached Burke. They pro-
cured tools and hurried to the scene
of the accident where they joined
their efforts with the others and
stormed the mass OF ice and earth
which blocked the canyon little af-
ter 3 O'Clock they started TO Burke
to aid in getting the women and child
rem out OF the path of possible danger.
They arrived just in time to be caught
in the slide there.
Among the last TO be taken out of
The snow alive at Mace was Mrs Geo.
Hooper. an old woman who lived on
the outskirts Of the town. She WAS
buried under the snow sixteen feet and
i took four hours of the hardest work :
10 get her out. She had suffered from :
the cold but WAS not badly injured
Many strange thoughts coursed
Ihfnnsh my mind while lav buried !,
N the snowslide for more than two ,
hours at the Missoula Copper mine.
SAID II. ]. Mcleod OF Muilan. who
WIN his son. John a. Mcleod, was :,
rescued.
Al the time the slide occurred 7 !
was sieeping In a small bunk room just