Show TWO TRAINS BURIED AWFUL DISASTER AT SUMMIT OF CASCADE MOUNTAINS IN INSTATE INSTATE INSTATE STATE OF WASH WASHINGTON INGTON- INGTON Twenty three Persons Known to Have Lost Their Lives Twenty-five Twenty Are Missing and a Score Injured as Result of Avalanche Everett Wash three Twenty Twenty three perSons persons persons per per- sons are arc known to be dead twenty- twenty five live are missing and a score are injured injured injured in in- as a n 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 Northera North North- ern era trains one the westbound Spokane Spokane kane express and the other an overland overland over over- land mall malI train off oft the narrow ledge of the high line hurling them to the bottom of the canyon feet below Coupled to the Spokane express was was' Superintendent J. J H. H O'Neill's private car This was carried over t the e precipice precipice precipice preci preci- pice with the rest of the train Three locomotives four powerful electric motors used to haul trains through the Cascade tunnel l the depot at Wellington Wellington Wel Wel- Wellington lington and a water tank also were carried away by the slide and burled buried under tons of debris The wrecked trains lie piled on top of each other feet below the sidIng siding siding sid sid- ing upon uvon which they stood when the avalanche swept over them The Tho cars were crushed into kindling wood and Sand no one on the train escaped escape in 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 from slides is not over Warm weather in the 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 mUes long rushed down Into the canyon canyon canyon can 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 haye been passengers on the westbound westbound westbound west 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 cam The other train was the transcontinental fast mall mail which carried car car- ned ried no passengers The two twp trains were in charge of Condu Conductors tors and Pettit both bothof bothof bothof of Everett The fate of the train crews crews' Is not known Superintendent ONeill O'Neill was not in his car at the time of the slide and escaped injury but it itis itis itis is thought his private secretary A. A E. E Is dead As soon as word of the disaster reached Everett the Great Northern divisional point miles west a rescue rescue res res- cue train of physicians and nurses was started for the scene This was followed followed fol fol- fol lowed by a second rescue train carryIng carrying carry carry- ing undertakers wrecking outfits an and laborers |