Valdez daily prospector., 1914-02-19
WOMAN STILL IN
 CANYON SLIDE
Rescue Workers Take Out Callagay
 and Bergman-one Living :. The Other Dead.

bringing George M. Callagay, who suf- fered dislocated knee and is badly bruised as a result of being caught in the slide yesterday at Keystone canyon. They also brought the body of P. o. Bergland, who was killed in the same slide, and report that in spite of the efforts of fifty men work ing all of yesterday afternoon, through the night and all of today they have been unable to locate the body of Mrs. Lizzie Stropp, who was buried by the slide at the same time. l Callagay was taken out of the slide soon after he was buried, as the sig nal corps boys who witnessed the ! slide immediately started the work of l resuce and when they discovered that he was severely injured they rushed { him to Wortman's. Bergland was found by the men from the Cashman Roadhouse, who went to the scene as soon as they knew of the acci- dent As they were taking his body from the snow the first of the party sent from Valdez yesterday afternoon ] reached there. Every effort was made to resuscitate Bergland by ar tificial means but it was found useless as he had suffocated
 The two relief crews combined and endeavored to locate the body of Mrs. Stropp, but so far no word of the suc- cess of their efforts has reached town. 1 Callagay it at the Hospital of the Good Samaritan and the body of Bergland is in the parlors of the Val dez Undertaking company and will be prepared for burial
 Lieut. Dougherty kept an operator on duty all night at the local office so that the operators at the scene of the slide could send to Valdez for any aid necessary, one of them having made a cut-in near the accident. The story told by those who return ed from the scene is trat Mrs. Stropp walked from her camp at Wortman's to the head of the canyon for the only purpose of witnessing the slide as it came down the mountain, as all of the mushers through the canyon expected that the warm weather would cause the immense body of snow to slide All the party were almost oy- CT the dangerous part when they they yelled to Mrs. Stropp to run she turned back towards the canyon. and thus she was caught in the center of the slide where it was the deepest. and may be buried beneath tons and tons of ice, snow and frush. Chunks of ice weighing many tons came down into the valley carried by the force of the avalanche Bergland was haul ing his last load from Comfort to Wortman's.
 Two signal corps men were caught and the horse and sled covered. but the men escaped injury excepting the driver, George N. Callagan, pros pector, who was riding with them, had his ;eg broken and was badly crushed wEtn taken from the slide.
 The party from Valdez was organ ized by Lieut.. Dougherty, and Mar shal Brenneman sent Deputy Marshal AL Bowling to take charge of the re- lief party of 35 men who volunteered
 tc go to the canyon to help in the
 rescue. work. Three hundred msn could have been secured had the ne cessity for them been apparent. The
 teams of the road commission and of
 the signal corps were used and sev
 eral volunteered the use Of horses anti
 sleds.
 Early this morning Mayor Ritchie wired to F. F. Cashman that the city
 would guarantee the expense of feed--
 ing the men who were working. but
 the roadhouse proprietor, who is a sourdohgh. had already provided them with meals without cost. .,n., |ls The authorities of Valdez. the chief \ officer lof the signal corps, the mar shal and the populace in general all aided in sending out immediate re Mief and deserve the praise of all |IEsAlaskaps for the promptness and |Hhoroufhness with which they, acted E WheA news reached Valdez that
 Ignore VI vSiunteers were needed IS, more linen VI sre :, sent t to the scene iu charge (tpf Petd Layton, and the teams were
 frHishSd by, Charles Krasmer, of the
 Gold Kns Ce, and .C, E. Runnell, of fthe e daeFon Johiaon Goa both of
 Fhich pHpanies have stock nj the
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