Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-01
SLIDES IN IDAHO
BURY 3 CITIES
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION FOL-
LOW AVALANCHE
PITEoUs SCENES WITNESSED IN
NORTHWEST GuLcHES
Twelve Known to BE Dead and Thirty
Seven Injured-Many Have
Narrow Escapes from
Being Killed
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the cold. but was not seriously in
jured. ,
MANY strange thoughts coursed
| through my mind while | lay burled
in the snowslde for more than two
| hours at the Missoula copper NINE
said r. J. Mcleod of Mullan, who with
his son, John A. Mcleod, was rescued.
"At the time the slide occurred was
sleeping in a small bunk room just
off the compressor room. My son was
on shift at the compressor. L was
aroused from sleep by my son running
into the room crying Papa, papa!
"The slide struck the building with
great force and we were buried under
a whirlng mass of snow and timbers
MY son was knocked on the bed and
| lay on me. With the exception OF my
right hand I was unable to move. l
worked this free and managed to scrape
! away sufficient snow to give us air.
When the alarm spread through the
mining camp that Mace had been al
most wiped out by landslide, moth
| ers, wives and children of miners en-
ployed at the Hecla, Hercules, Anchor
| and the caretakers at the old Tiger
Poorman mine began to seek places of
| safety. Wives and families of miners
! who had responded to appeals from
! Mace were unable to move and these
may have been buried in" the snow.
Because Of the larger population of
| Burke, about 800, the houses are closer
together.
Children hauled their mothers to the
side hills, brothers literally dragged
! their little sisters to places of safety
and when the slide struck many of
| the homes were deserted by fear
| stricken women and children, while
! the bread providers were rescuing in
| jured at the stricken sister town.
| Old-timers in the Coeur d'Alene dis
trict have been sounding daily warn
| ings to Mace, Burke and Blackbear
| that because of the record depth of
the 1now slides were imminent. For
| six n winters these towns have es-
capped devastating slides and so strong
| had the confidence of the miner resi-
dents become in the conviction that
| their homes and families were safe
that no precaution had been taken
Thirty-five Italians, sleeping in an
outfit car on the Northern Pacific sid
ing, who were swept away with their
car in the bottom of the canyon, used
| the tools In their car to dig themselves
! out, and at o'clock this morning all
| but one laborer had been accounted
| for superintendent and Mrs. I. II.
| Pascoe of the Standard mine, in which
| property a large majority of the male
I residents of Mace are employed, were
crushed like an eggshell, Mr.. Pascoe,
two sons and a daughter being in
stantly killed. Mrs. Pascoe was res
cued, slightly injured.
With a bitter wind blowing. every
available man within ten miles of
| Mace was rushed to the little mining
town at midnight. where bonfires were
built. torches lighted and the wood in
crushed houses used for fuel to keep
the workers warm. Shovels were
brought from hardware stores in the
several towns in the canyon, special
trains over the oregon Railway &
| Navigation company and Northern
| Pacific bringing tools and food.
The scene around Burke following
| the slide was appalling. The whole
| village, with its 900 inhabitants, was
thrown into panic Cooler heads at
once began to seek places of safety
| for their wives and children.
Later reports from Burke, Idaho,
| indicate the disaster is not so bad as
was at first feared. Previous reports
from Wallace confused the death lists
of the two snowslides.
At noon but four bodies had been re-
| covered at Burke, the victims being
A. D. Pitchett Richard Shepherd and
the children of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Neuman, both of their parents being
reported as injured.
James Rogers, a boy. is known to
have been killed. Whether other
bodies are hidden under the sixty feet
of snow cannot yet be determined.
my husband-Where is he?" cried
Mrs Pascoe, wife of the dead superin-
tendent of the Standard mine. when
rescuers pulled her out of a tangled
mass of twisted iron bed rails under
forty feet of snow at Mace Only a
cast iron bed post which protected her
saved her from instant death Her
husband, who was sleeping beside her,
was battered almost beyond recogni-
ton, Three children of the Pascoe
family lost their lives, but little Katie
was rescued by a toiling crew of
brawny miners after being wounded on
the head by piece of flying steel.
Mrs. Carrie Hooper was taken from
the ruins Of her home to be started
to the train where were the corpses of
the victims. On the way she began to
show signs of life and was resusci-
tated. Shock stunned her, but she will
| recover.
Snowslides are reported from widely
separated points in the whole Occur
d'Alene district. At Murray, twenty
two miles north of Wallace, mining
plants were damaged to the extent of
| several thousand dollars.
AT Mullan, eight miles east of Wal
lace, the roof of the opera house col
lapsed with the weight of the snow
while the building was filled with
people. All escaped injury.
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