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Show The Maroon Pass Horror. Denveb, Col., - January 23. An Aspen speoial to the Tribune-Bepublican says: Maroon Pass road has been the scene of a fearful loss during the recent storm. The horrors of Thursday were intensified by developments yesterday, whioh show the Pass to be a snow-bound tomb. While the men were hunting yesterday for the bodies in Thursday's snowslide, word was received of another farther up the canyon. The avalanche struck tho latter place at midnight mid-night Tuesday. Clayton Gannet, Sol Camp. Charles Tuttle, Martin Biley, Jap Farrw, August Goodwin, AL Soma and Martin Patterson Pat-terson were asleep in a cabin which was supposed sup-posed to be safe, as it was built in a grove oi heavy timber, but when the slide came down it snapped the trees as though they were pi pe stems, hurling them against the cabin and crashing everything in a mass. Martin Biley Bi-ley and August Goodwin had their backs broken and Biley was suffocated. suffo-cated. When the slide . struck the timber it divided, part of it rushing across the i gulch, carrying a cabin on the opposite side occupied by three men without injuring them. These - men worked their way out, and at noon started to rennnA their friends. . Wednesday evening, after cutting through numberless fallen trees, they effected ef-fected an entrance to the cabin, and found three dead and the other five suffering terribly terri-bly from suffocation.. Sol. Camp lay on his faoe dead. The body of Farris was pinioned across the back by a heavy timber. Biley died five minutes after the disaster, and his dying convulsions nearly caused the death of the man underneath him. - Camp had sustained a terrible '. cut on the head, from which blood flowed profusely. He became terribly thirsty, and being ina position where he could hold his hands under" his bleeding head and lift them to his mouth, he quenched his thirst with his own blood. All the men alive were nearlv crazy when, found. All were undressed, and had bitten themselves on the hands and arms in their delirium, and presented a sickening spectacle. specta-cle. They may all recover, but thewes-o -one or two are extremely doubtful. ,..'- |