The Alaska daily empire., 1920-01-03
personal property and to build ings on Front Street.
 $31, ,000-Estimated Total.
Detailed Story of the Slide

scented changed appearance. Every piece of wreckage had been turned over in the thorough search made for the bodies of the two missing men It is the positive belief of the searchers and city officials that the bodies are not in the wreckage of the houses. Lines of hose have been path is being ground sluiced by high pressure of water. If the bodies are there 1t will be only a question of time until they will be found as every foot fo gravel and silt is being turned over and washed through an opening in Front street to the beach.
 Recover vaIuabIes
 Careful search is being made of all the debris for personal property and anything of value when found i3 carefully watched and placed in safe place under the direction of City Clerk A. B. Cole. A committee wll have charge of Identifying the prop erty and giving it to its rightful own CTS. Many articles are being recov cred Considerable money and jew. elry was in the wreck and much of it will be recovered.
 Workers Are Busy
 A gang of men from the Alaska-Ju- neau Mining Company in charge of Georget Getchell continued active to- dov in tho uorL of cloorinU awav th o wreckage and sluicing away the gra- vel. They followed up the work done last night by the other men who were engaged in rescue work.
 There is also crew of men un- der the direction of Street Commis. sioner E. M. Polly sclearing away wreckage from the vicinity of Gasti- neau avenue and making prepara- tion to immediately reconstruct that street. This work was authorized by the City Council at their meeting last night.
 First to See Slide
 Most probably the first man to ee the slide was Lee Rox. He, broke in the fire alarm box and sounded an alarm. Not waiting for the de- partmeM to arrive, he armed himself with an axe and fiashEght and rushed into the mass of wreckage and re- scued the first benumbed victim. At this time cries and groans were is- suing from all parts of the splintered mass of wreckage
 Vvh;, tpd;u;d,vol raccro Wnrk was carried on until the arrival of the fire department which then took charge of the rescue work. The department was handicapped for time for the lack of sufficient tools with which to work, but soon these were coming from every source and, with voiun- teers, the men in charge soon began to get the imprisoned people out and send them to the hospitals.
 Those In Charge
 The rescue work was quickly sys- tematized into three distinct coop erating groups. The Juneau fire de- partment, which quickly responded to a general alarm. was directed by Chief Sim Freman, who was on the iob all the afternon and way into the night.
 Fifty men of the Alaska Juneau joined the rescuers at 12 o'clock, within a half hour after the slide. They were in charge of George Getchell. outside foreman, and con tinued on the job until six o'clock. At APO o'clock they were joined by 50 men from Thane under charge of Foreman H. E. Garlock. At pm. another bunch of Alaska Gastineau men arrived. making 118 from that company. Fifty of these returned to Thane at midnight. and the others remained until relieved this. morning by another crew of 50 from the Alas ka Juneau mine.
 Among those who worked hard and faithfully were men from the Alaska Labor Union headquarters. Mayor J. Latimer Gray and members of the City Council. Acting Chief of Police |C. W. Forsythe. Street Commissioner E. M. Policy. Charles Goldstein and