The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-11-21
Disaster of 1936 Recalled as Avalanche Rodrs
 Off Mountain MILL TO BE CLOSED
 FORTY-EIGHT HOURS
Residents in Area Move Out on Advice of
 Mayor and Chief

down the mountain side above the City Wharf late yesterday after noon nearly three years today from the date of the disastrous ava lanche of Nov. g, 1886, which swept down the mountain but few hundred feet from the present slide to claim nearly a score of lives.
 Yesterdays slide. which will close mill operations until tomorrow night. cut the main haulage artery of the Alaska Juneau mine, but fortunately did small damage to property other than that of the mine, stopping its first plunge at the mines buried water line hun dred feet above the Home Board ing House.
 High wind and heavy rain is believed to have joined forces in uprooting a tree at the crest Of the steep ridge at the head of the slide and started the cascade of rocks, earth ana trees.
 Roar Signals Slide
 The roar that signaled the slide was heard at 4.25 o'clock yester- day afternoon, followed by a fire alarm.
 Firemen, police and mine offi- cials immediately began a survey to determine the extent of dam age and the possibility of further slide.
 Mayor Harry l. Lucas and Chief of Police Dan Ralston advised ap- proximately 200 residents in the slide area to evacuate their homes, and two hours later there were few lights burning in the endan- gered area.
 A short time after the slide oc- cured, the Alaska Juneau mill was shut down with little ore left in the bins and a crew of approxi- mately thirty miners was put to work to begin the task of cleaning buried track.
 Williams on Scene
 J. A. Williams, Assistant Gen. eral Superintendent of the mine, who was on the scene most of the night and today, said the mining and milling operations of the mine would be shut down "at least AZ hours" which estimate would give chance that operations will be re- sumed tomorrow night.
 Williams said approximately 10C feet of snowshed over the haul age track was carried away, and perhaps 75 feet of the double track road bed is buried to a depth ot about Is feet.
 Approximately half of the 94s men on the Alaska Juneau payroll will be off the job until operations are resumed, Williams said, de claring that a few shift miners will work on the slide and few will be employed in the mine proper, doing development work while actual mine and mill opera tions employees will be off.
 Damage
 Damage attributed to the slide will be the biggest for the Alaska Juneau in loss of its 13,000-tor daily tonnage. Damage to resi-. dential property is at minimum with several inches of mud in the basement of the Home Boarding House, the only appreciable result of the slide among endangered houses.
 Several residents were moving back to their residences in tht area this morning and city streets and sewers crews were still working to keep a small stream of water and mud routed into drains, dug last night, between the Northern and Scandinavian Hotels.
 This morning, Alaska Juneau miners blasted several large bould- CTS in the slide to prevent then from going down the mountainside to start further avalanche.
 Reports of marrow escape" oi miners. when investigated, were found not so marrow
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