Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-03-18
B, c. HAS SNOW SLIDE
over 93 RAILROADERS DEAD
NEAR ROGERS PASS.
Avalanche 800 Feet Wide Sweeps Every
thing in Front of It Stalled Passen-
ger Train Goes Back to Calgary-Few
Bodies Recovered-Men Were Work
ing to Clear the Tracks.

Winnipeg, March 6-Canadian Pa
cific officials report that 90 met death
and that IA injured were in the hos
pital as a result of the avalanche at
Rogers pass, B. c., Friday night.
Another slide occurred on the banks
of the Kicking Horse river near Palliser
today. 1t buried the track for a length
of 900 feet to a depth of 25 feet. AS
soon as this slide is removed a west
bound passenger train, stalled 25 miles
east of Rogers pass, will be hauled back
to Calgary and the passengers and mails
shipped through to the Coast via Medi-
cine Hat and the Crows Nest Pass rail
road.
Another slide is reported from Three
Valley, small point west of Revelstoke.
The slide is 800 feet long and 10 feet
deep.
Names of the Known Victims.
Vancouver, B. c., March COZ the 90
Canadian Pacific trainmen, trackmen
anu ldUOIClo ny dh III
Rogers pass, on the summit of the Sell
kirk range of the Rocky mountains, all
are probably dead. Following is list
of the victims:
R. j. Buckley, conductor.
w. Phillips, engineer.
J. J. Fraser, roadmaster.
t. Griffith, fireman.
A. P. Pottruff, engineer.
j. McClelland, bridgeman.
A. johnson, foreman.
G. Anderson, foreman.
F. Welsander, foreman.
D. J. Mcdonald, bridgeman.
A. Malone, brakeman.
G. Nichols, bridgeman.
Twelve of Bridge Foreman Melon
aid IS men, names unknown, and 81 Jap
anese.
Only Seven Recovered.
This afternoon the bodies of only
seven men had been recovered. They
were those of Roadmaster Fraser, Fire
man Griffith, Conductor Buckley, Engi-
neer Phillips, A. P. Pottruff and A. Ma
hone and japanese. The work of re-
covering the dead and of opening the
track is greatly impeded by blizzard
that is blowing through the pass.
There was also another big slide of
snow and rock this morning a mile east
of the spot where the men were over
whelmed. 1t destroyed portion of
snowshed and buried the track for 400
yards to depth of 60 feet. There
were no victims in the last avalanche.
Today's eastbound express left here
at 3:15 as usual. Until the tracks have
been cleared passenger traffic, east and
westbound, will be handled via the Ar.
row Lakes, Nelson & Crows, Nest Pass
railway.
Game With Noise Like Thunder.
The accident occurred near a snow
shed one mile west of Rogers pass and
at the actual summit of the Selkirks.
Conductor Vic Buckley and Engineer
w. Phillips of the work train, headed
by rotary snow pillow, were killed
The men were a working crew en-
gagged in clearing away small slide
which had come down early in the
evening. The men were spread out
over the slide and working a rotary
engine over it when larger slide
came down and carried them to their
death in the canyon below.
AS soon as the news reached Revel-
stoke the frebell was sounded and
within half an hour the relief train
conveying physicians and nurses and
over 200 railway men and other citi-
zens was speeding out to Rogers pass.
Thirty Bodies Taken Out.
Vancouver, B. c., March Thirty
bodies have been found in the wreckage
at Rogers Pass, where the avalanche
buried 60 workmen engaged in clearing
the Canadian Pacific tracks of wreck
age brought down by an earlier slide.
Twenty-Five of the bodies recovered are
those of white men, the other being the
bodies of Japanese section men. The
local offices of the Canadian Pacific ad
here to their estimate of 60 dead. They
say they have carefully checked the list
of employees and that the number given
| is correct.
Five hundred men are at work clear
ing away the wreckage, and the railway
company expects to have the line open
for traffic by tomorrow night. 1t is ex-
pected most of the bodies will have been
recovered by that time.
The danger of other slides is immi-
nent. Rain and sleet have been falling
for the last two days and tonight a
fearful snowstorm is raging. The wind
blows through the pass with terrific
force and the rescuers are greatly hamp-
cred in their work.