The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-03

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Conductor ParzYbook and his brake.
man.
i. p. Petit, conductor.
w. Raycroft, brakeman.
- StrawmcvcT, brakeman.
Hiram Touslce. Spokane
John Tucker. mail clerk.
Two unknown mail weighers.
Stepopraphcr car A-l6.
Porter car A-l6.
Forty hours have passed since the
thundcrs Of the high Cascades wrote
a new story of the danger Of win
ter travel through the winding passes
Of the mountains.
Details Yet Unknown.
IN that time no detailed account OF
what happened when tho Spokane OK
press was taken from It's shelter at
the catewar Of the Cascades tunnel
ard buried 81 the bottom OF the canyon
has been received.
The only stories of the disaster have
como from those adventurous pasScu-
gers and engineers who have climbed
over The mountain trail. Several mcu
on leaving the sights Of horror at Well
ington and arriving at Scenic. the ucar.
est relief station. were unable tO de-
scribe WHIST thcv had seen The pcrils
of their descent Of tho mountain and
lbf fTlfS III luf Nbuh''' III lhF I'Al w
low the track bad made them bys
tcrlcal.
To add to The difficulties Of tho stu
alton the only telegraph wires into
Scenic from the west went down again
tonight.
Rescue parties arc working despcr-
atcly TO save at least few of the pas
scuGcrs in the buried coaches.
Two Cars Yet Missing
The day coach and the smoker have
not beer found. They were smashed
as effectively as though tons of IRON
had fallen on fhcm.
One woman was rescued from n Pull
man after twelve hours in a prison Of
snow.
Brakeman Duncan and Conductors
Purcell and Clary. who were in one
of the cars that was smashed tp spliu-
ters, escaped with slight bruises in
bare feet they worked for hours help
ing the injured aud saving those caught
under thc wrcckggc.
4 few facts have been learned of
the dcad and missing paSScngers-MrS.
VI. A CoVington OF Seattle who IS miss
ing was on her way 10 celebrate her
golden wedding tomorrow. Mrs. Star
rctt Of Chaminus. i. c., was returning
from Spokane. where her husband was
Mrs. Starrett and one child were saved.
but two of hcr children were killed.
All the iniurcd arc being cared for
at Wellington aud Scenic II is thought
all Will recover.
II is stated the train was not kept in
the tunnel where it would have escaped
the slide as passengers feared they
would be blockaded and suffocated
there
First Direct News.
The first Dows direct from tho scene
Of the disaster was received here short
ly before midnight tonight. when DR.
Cox, ono of the Great Northern phN
siciaus, who left on The first rciIcl
train, returned from Wellington, ac
companicd hv tbrce of the survivors
Ray Forsyth, r. NJ. Lavclle and Fire
man s 4. Bates. DR.. Cox stated that
none of the injured is in critical con
slightly hurt When the party lcfi
Wellington sixteen were in the ten
porarY hospital.
FORSYTH and Bates estimate that moi
moro rhan twenty Of the 10 people who
were carried into the canyon by the
avalanche escaped death or injury
Eleven passenger cars, three locom0
snow rloU, the rotary shed and thC
hand house were swept away by tn,
slide,
Under Forty Feet Of Snow,
\ member of the first rchcf party
who returned 10 Everett tonight saiC
when he reached the scene all tho car:
were completely buried, Much of the
wreckagc was covered by forty fee
Of snow and all that could be seen wa.
one partly buried electric motor, two
| locomotives and the wreckage Of tho
rotary. All that could be seen of the
coaches was a steel pine sticking out oi
the snow where a Pullman car wa.
twisted around stump, and a curlaiI
| that lay on top.
Ray FORSYTH, one of the injured pas
/ scngers. WAS in Il car IN which ther,
were five women and seven children
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