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Show uu SNOWSLIDE SWEEPS iflJO DEATH WHITEFISH, Mont, Jan 10 The storm on tho Essev mountain Is tho worst ever known. Thero has been a heavy fall of suow and a strong wind Is blowing causing a blinding blizzard Great Northern railroad officiate of-ficiate havo abandoned efforts to get trains through until the storm abates, as the snow fills 'as fast as it is cleared out. A relief train was started from bere yesterday afternoon headod with a rotary plow and 'it took them all night to get to Essex. Trains from the east arc belngd turned around at Cutbank and tho trains from the west are being turned hero and sent back, delourlng over the Northern Pacific The rotary snow plow, pushed by an engine, was struck by a snowslldo one mile east of Ja-va station at tho top of the continental divide In the Rocky mountains At 5 o'clock yesterday yes-terday and hurled over a -prociplco of 100 feet and then' rolled down tho mountain Bide several hundred feet to Uie rlvor bottom with Its seven occupants On the plow were Division Divis-ion Superintendent W. R Smith, Division Di-vision Road Master John Garrlty, Travel ng Engineer Charles B. Allen, Rotary Engineer William BrUlport, Fireman Clifford Hove, Conductor W. W. Smith and Brakoman Andrews. These all escaped alive except Allen and Brullport, they having boon buried bur-ied somowhero undor the snow and wreckage, and up to this afternoon have not boon found If they were not killed outright they would be dead by this tlmo from exposure and Intense In-tense cold Superintendent Stnith was quite seriously Injured, his lip badly lacerated and several teeth knocked out and his back and chest aro hurt-Clifford hurt-Clifford Hove has n broken leg. Tho otberB are all badly bruised and cut slightly but nothing serious Tho thermometer was down to 2S below zero The engine pushing tho plow was not struck b tho slide. |