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Show FOUR IN MEET OEATII III QNRUSHIHG AVALANCHE Mass of Snow Sweeps Down Mountainside Mountain-side and Entombs Unfortunate Men In Icy Grave. Grand Junction, Colo. Four men wero killed nnd moro than a score had a narrow escape from death when an nvalancho of snow swopt over tho Camp Dlrd mlno at Ouray lato Saturday. Satur-day. Tho dead: 8. G. Douhltt, a veterinary; veteri-nary; retor Synot, n teamster; Georgo Kncrr,. a teamster, and John WIttwer, camp cook. , Tho four men wcro talking In the cook houso, when, almost without wnrnlng, thousands of tons of snow, rocks and dirt swopt down tho mountainside. moun-tainside. Tho shanty was directly In tho path of the avalanche, nnd tho men were hurled Into tho canyon and their bodies covered with biiow. It will bo mid summer before the bodies can bo recovered. Ono of tho heroes of tho dlsastor is a largo dog owned by Kmll Johnson, a teamster. Johnson saw tho slldo coming com-ing nnd made a despornto effort to drlvo out of tho way. He was caught nnd burled dcop beneath 'tho snow. Tho dog had seen his master caught In tho avalanche, and, rushing nt tho imow, began to dig furiously. Ho kept nt It until ho reached tho burled man, and Johnson crawled out, nono tho worse for his experience. |