The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-01
Carbonate Hill Mining Camp, as
Well as Mace and Burke
Buried.
KNOWN DEAD NUMBER
SCORE. OTHERS MISSING
Rcscuers Work HeroicaIIy and
Some Are Themselves
Lost.

Burke. Ida, destroyed the mining
camp Of the Carbonate Hill Mining
company near the "S' bridge at Mul-
Ian, Ida, about noon Sunday.
reported Dead.
Gus BERGbUND.
JOHN HOLM.
ERICK HOLM
The body of Gus Rerglund has been
recovered
Dead at Mace.
il. II. PASCOE, superintendent # the
Standard mine
EDDIE PASCOE, son Of r. H. Pas.
coe.
GNEz PAsCoE, daughter of r. II.
Pascoe
MRS. ED KTTTRELL, wife Of book
keeper OF thc Stores company.
TWO KITTRELL CHILDREN.
MRS. JOHN FENNELL.
Al LAIRD.
MRS. LAIRD. mother Of Al Laird
RGCHARD MOGLE.
j. THOMPSON.
T. e. MOORE.
Injured in Mace Slide.
Mrs r. H. Pascoe.
Miss Katie Pascoe.
Mrs. f. w Hooper.
Mrs. Guest.
William George,
George Gibson
Mrs. George Gibson.
Mrs. Abe Winchester.
Others taken out Internally injured
include. six children Of William George,
Miss George. p. T. Barnett and wilc.
Mrs. George Hooper, William Brand,
wife and child: John Fenpell, William
Newton. wife and children: Gano Dun
can. wife and child; Mrs. Gassaway,
Ed Whcatlcy. wife and child: Paul Ed.
wards, wife and three children; Thomas
Flanagan.
Killed in Burke Slide.
DAVE SHEPHERD.
DICK RlCHOTT.
TWO CHILDREN or Al >'EWMAN.
Injured in Burke Slide.
Al Newman.
Mrs. Al Newman.
James Rogers.
Nineteen are now known TO be dead
in the avalapches that nearly oblter
ated the towns Of Mace and Burke,
Ida, last night and this morning. and
the death list will probably he largely
increased as the rescuers reach other
bodies,
Heroic Rescue Work.
The fight against time and cold has
been waged bravery aud persstently by
the little army cf men who are hop
ing 10 find under the heaps of ruin
in the ravines some persons who by
good fortune have escaped death. AL
though the greatest of difficulties have
thrown discouragemeut in their paths.
these men have dug ana torn and
strained frautically for more than
twenty -four hours, pausiug scarcely 10
warm their nuubeG bodies before again
Selling their shovels and returning 70
their work Old men. Young boys and
men of the cloth have Joined their cf- |
forts with those of the ablebodied IN
the common cause.
Slide of Great Magnitude,
Mace is situated on the creek bed !
and the mountains rise on either side |,
f the cauyon. The slopes have been |
we'll denuded of trees by the nine. /
The main body Of the avalanche. which |
started from the top of Custer monG.
tain passed beyond the town. and.
the opposite slope with ter
rifle force rushed up the mountain side. I
The caDvon is filed MP 10 depth of |
from forty 10 fifty feet
The damage 10 the town was done bv
m offshoot from the main slide, which
carried away the construction train or
the track as it plunged into the ravjne.
and shooting up The other side. demol-
shed the houses in It's path. stopping
4 short distance beyond the Psscoe
home. The boarding honse OF the
Standard mine, whore about 500 miners
we're sleeping. was missed BY only
bout 120 feet
The first slide was that which wiped
,ut almost all Of the town OF Mace,
i've miles up tho canNoU from here
This catastrophe occurred at l0;+j Sun
lay night. while all the population eX-
'cpt the men on the night Shift iu
ht STANDARD and in the ether mines :
II the locality were sleeping.
Second Avalanche,
The Burke avalaucbc occurred mt $50 I
his morning That more lives were /
4 mind Of Seaman :. Rowe, foreman F,
# the TIecla mine. Realizing the dan. 4,
,er which threatened the sleeping and
citizens Of the other town
milo further up the stream, he sent
iert Clement on 90 Burke 20 rouse the !
nhahitants and urge them TO seek :
afetv.
BY sad capricc Of fate -four Of those Q
mo lost ibeIr lives al Rurk" were L
IcmhcrS of The rcscuc party which had s
cen ar work at night al Mace, They
'eTc David Shepherd. Dick Ejchot Viii y
am Painter aud James Rogers These ~
len were among The first Ia respond e
, nc call for succor when the news q
I the N1Cc disaster reached Burke. %
hey procured tools and hurried to the {
.cuc cf the accident, where they Joined
lcir efforts with the others and stormcd !"
rc mass * ice and earth which blocked :,
lc canyon. A little after , clock. h,
'ing impressed with The same idea as C
owe, That the town Of Burke was in Il
imminent danger or being visited with .
similar catastrophe ar any moment, ~
lcy started back 10 aid in getting the
omen and children OUT of the nnth of d,
&c greatest danger, They arrived at iu
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