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Show FOUR MEN MEET DEATH IN OHMS AVALANCHE Mass of Snow Sweeps Down Mountainside Mountain-side and Entombs Unfortunate Men in Icy Grave. Grand Junction, Colo. Four men were killed and more than a score had a narrow escape from death when an avalanche of snow swept over the Camp Bird mine at Ouray late Saturday. Satur-day. The dead: S. G. Douhitt, a veterinary; veteri-nary; Peter Synot, a teamster; George Knerr, a teamster, and John Wlttwer, camp cook. , The four men were talking in the cook house, when, almost without warning, thousands of tons of snow, rocks and dirt swept down the mountainside. moun-tainside. The shanty was directly in the path of the avalanche, and the men were hurled into the canyon and their bodies covered with snow. It will be mid-summer before the bodies can be recovered. One of the heroes of the disaster is a large dog owned by Emll Johnson, a teamster. Johnson saw the slide coming com-ing and made a desperate effort "to drive out of the way. He was caught and buried deep beneath the snow. The dog had seen his master caught in the avalanche, and, rushing ai the snow, began to dig furiously. He kept at it until he reached the buried man, and Johnson crawled out, none the worse for his experience. |