The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-01
Disaster OVeTlakss Several Towns In Idaho Through
 bva|anches
MIRACULOUS ESCAPES
 MADE BY BURIED PEOPLE
Four Members of Rescue Party That Worked at One Place Are Killed in a Slide of snow at An-
 other Town

Spokane Wash. February 2S-Twenty- four are known to be dead as the result of the snowslides yesterday and today in the mining district of northern Idaho. To the 19 known to have perished In the snowslides at Mace and Burke. Idaho. last night and this morning are added two more, who died in a similar dsastes about noon yesterday, when the camp Of the Carbonate Hill Mining company at Mullan, Idaho. was destroyed.
 Two more were killed at Dorsey, Idaho. late this afternoon.
 The fight against time and cold at e-a9 and Burke has been bravely waged large army of men, who hope t, among. the ruins in the ravine som may i've escaped death. The re- have lug for many hours. Every able ,ble-bodied man has been into ,,service, old men and boys also in the rescue forces.
 Mace is situated on the creek bf the mountains rise high on eithe of the town. The main body avalanche, which started from the
 Custer mountain. passed beyond u
 and, striking tie opposite slope
 rife force, rushed up to the
 mountainside.
 | The ravine is filled to a depth
 40 to 90 feet. The damage to |
 was done by a branch of the ma which carried construction traih l track away as 1t plunged into the
 As it rolled up the other side isiscd tAo houses in it's path and .s.ss shnrt 1frfa ho.,hnd fha E,s, ar 0s.
 The boarding house of tho Stehdsrd mine. where about 300 miners were sleep
 ing, was missed by 12 feet The frs, slide. which almost wiped out the town of Mace, occurred at 1o:45 o'clock Sunday night while all except the men on the | night shift in the mine were sleeping. The Burke avalanche occurred at 5:Se o'clock this morning. That more lives were not lost at Burke is due to seaInai: Rowe, foreman of the Heca mine. Real izlng the danger that threatened tbt sleeping citizens of the town, a mile fur ther up the stream, he sent D. Clement to Burke to arouse the inhabitants and urge them to seek safety.
 Four of those who lost their lives a Burke were members of the rescue party that had been at work at night at Mace.
 Among the last to be taken out of the snow alive at Mace was Mrs. GcorgsH tOOpeT, all Oiu WOiiidil WHo liNcQ oH fI outskirts of the town She was buried - feet under the snow and it took 10 hours to rescue her. She had sufferso from the cold but was not badly injured.
 The little town of Burke, it was leernt tonight. is buried 50 feet under a mass O. snow and earth. The slide is 5000 feet long and completely fills the canyon
 James Rodgers, who was supposed to have perished. was rescued at Burke late this afternoon. He had been buried in the snow eight hours The slide at Mace Is approximately 5000 feet long and save for a few places is packed as solid as Ice.
 Tonight a cold wind is sweeping the can yon and impeding those who are workinr to a few more lives. &
 Those who have journeyed from Wa1- lace to Mace and Burke say that the o1sz act number of dead probably never wIil be known the huge slide can never en. tirely be removed. finger sticl<1nr k above the surface of the snow savo6 ,th6z life of Mrs. George Gibson. who wo6 buried in the slide at Mace.
 For more than an hour the won~- -~-< : buried with only a finger pro lsi ifs .-.-. above the snow. Rescuers searchfns w4E lanterns saw the finger and dug ,er saf. She was half smothered and almos frb75r when rescued. Her condition is ffons
 Twelve persons have been reco- srs st Mace.
 The Destruction of Mae
 Wallace, Idaho. February B. a- lanche which for two days has tn assrss the little town of Mace i've mile .,s f canyon from Wallace. descentea night about 11:5s o'clock witt rsE heard in Wallace, i've miles av 4fs buried in it's path 25 families, or tti.s.s,l + persons. How many of these .z ft&S will not be known until some tir and perhaps for many days fo ..-ss tell of snow filling the canyon tc ershs of 50 to 75 feet
 Twelve dead bodies are reporte ts, been recovered and 6 people v. fats taken out alive. Superintendent ,% of the Standard mine is said to .. ing. but child of his was four a1t3e
 Hundreds of men were ava . ~ Ire bells here as soon as the fs aS the catastrophe became known ~Fse.Ss. q trains were made up, hardware sesh .., <, f opened their establishments. xtsrs,.. picks and other implements wei sss the asking and every abie-bodis assn , 4 Wallace was hurried to the scene. z fSsfsf~z
 The little mining town of Mace Ifo9 tween preciptous mountain nt3rz: {I | struggling line of cottages sin tkS 951< bottom, bysected by the lfnre cf 5< Northern Pacific and Oregon Railro, X 1S% Navigation companies. Its one ir,d,,17 .< 1'3I U mining and its big mine is the e{S7: With scarcely a dividing line pre6S22571 || the towns of Black Bear, Gem. 1fr{'1< Burke form long. string of for six miles. AYSfhe popnia11z | { Y Mace, with the ex9 stion of a' IT. ~ keepers and sch9 teachers. ars 1 employ of the F.ne t 'y||
 According to some reports fbAv-. have been many more than 10o v1 in the avalanche. Mace is divid5 # two parts. known as s,nner nt1 Mace md the catastrophe oc<,;r<5 x' :} lower Mace Most of the emulo,,1< i,l 4;1 Standard nine were unnlarris6 ,y E2 t 11.* ing in the Hotel Standard h lower 31 &~ scme estimates of tho n,sfri,es sv ~, <,E S0. ' NH X
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