Show TWO TDAlNS S Buif B D AWFUL DISASTER AT SUMMIT OF CASCADE MOUNTAINS INSTATE IN-STATE OF WASHINGTON Twentythree Persons Known to Have Lost Their Lives Twentyflve Are Missing and a Score Injured as Result of Avalanche Everett Wash Twentythree Ptr sons aro known to be dead twenty i five are missingand a score ate In jured as a result of the avalanche which swept down the mountain side above Wellington at the west portal of the Cascade tunnel early Tuesday morning and brushed two Great Northern North-ern trains ono the westbound Spo kane exprass and tho other an Over land mall train off the narrow ledge of the high line hurling them to the bottom of tho canyon 200 feet below Coupled to tho Spokane express was Superintendent J H ONeills private car This was carried over tho precipice preci-pice with the rest of the train Three locomotives four powerful electric motors used to haul trains through the Cascade tunnel the depot at Wellington Wel-lington and a water tank also were carried away by the slide and burled under tons of debris Tho wrecked trains lie piled on top of each othor 200 feet below the siding sid-ing upon which they stood when the avalanche swept over them The cars were crushed Into kindling wood and no one on the train escaped injury In-jury The slide filled the shelf upon which the tracks at Wellington are laid and rolled over the edge Into the valley The danger front slides is not over Warm weather In tho mountains Is melting the snow and frequently an avalanche Is heard thundering down the mountain side Not far from the scene of the disaster a slide four miles long rushed down Into the canyon can-yon Tuesday afternoon The snow Is eighteen feet on the level and In the canyon It is piled up in drifts more than fifty feet deep Most of the dead are believed to have been passengers on the westbound west-bound Great Northern express bound from Spokane to Seattle and which has been stalled In the mountain for five days They were asleep when the slide came The othor train was the transcontinental fast mall which carried car-ried no passengers The two trains were In charge ol Conductors Parzybook and Pettlt both of Everett The fate of the train crews Is not known Superintendent ONeill was not In his car at the time I of the slide and escaped Injury but it Is thought his private secretary A B Lorgcoy Is dead As soon as word of the disaster reached Everett the Great Northern divisional point 100 miles west a rescue res-cue train of physicians and nurses was started for the scene This was followed fol-lowed by a second rescue train carryIng carry-Ing undertakers wrecking outfits and laborers |