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Show ANOTHER FATAL SNOWSLIDE. It Leaves Four .Men Dead at Park City Nine Were Buried. SFrom The-tsalt Lake Tribune. Park City, March. 7 At 10:20 a. m. today a very heavy snowslide started start-ed from the mountain peak west of .the Morgan mine, and hit one of the Daly mine bunk-houses and boiler and shaft-house. The bunk-house was shivered into .atoms and the boiler-house was considerably con-siderably damaged. Nine men -were sleeping in the bunk-house at the time; five were rescued alive about one hour afterward. They were Thomas Hodges, Harry Tenny, .James Hallinan, James Magavva, -Charles Mattison. No two were found together. Chles Mattison was, found on the roof of the boiler-house, boiler-house, about 1 25 feet distant from the bunk-house. Thomas Hodges was found -300 feet away with his 4feet sticking out of the snow, and head dowrward. James Hallinan -was found up' the hill about 100 feet and James Magavva about fifty feet an an opposite direction. Four remained unaccounted for. These bunked on the ground floor of the buik house. The four occupying: oc-cupying: the same room. To get at rthem was a task of no small proportions. propor-tions. The snow was piled up over ;an acre cf. ground, and from ten to ififty feet 'high and packed almost as hardas" ice. The telephone line Jto the Daly was down and consequently conse-quently it was 12 o'clock before messages for physicians reached Park City. Doctors Le Conte and Gregor proceeded to the Daly, twhere ;they found about 200 men vshoveliug the snow. At 4:45 one man was found. He swas dead. His name was Nicholas "Paffis, a married man with a wife and three .children. Fifteen minutes afterwards James Keatiag was found. He was also -dead. 'He was found on his bunk with his bedding wrapped around him. His death was caused by suffocatiou. Keating was born at -Palmer-Hill, New Y., fifty-three he remained a half minute longer he wouid have been killed. John Doyle, Al Blaker and John Whalem were working in the 200-foot 200-foot surface tunnel, at the mouth of which snow was piled fifty feet high. They succeeded in working their way out after several hours. SLIDE AT THE ANCHOR. There was another very heavy, slide at the Anchor boarding-house' but no lives were lost; also a slide at the Silver King, but no damage was done. The snow has been falling here for three days. This is considered the heaviest snow stormat Park City for the past. ten years. zucca's body found. Park City, March 8. Joseph F. Zucca, the fourth man killed, whose body was not removed last night, j was found at 9 o'clock this morning in his bed, pushed up against a boiler-house about 200 feet from where he slept in the bunk-house. Like the others,he was wrapped in his bedding as if asleep. The presumption, presump-tion, based upon ''facial appearance, is that the men were killed while asleep and that their departure from life was to them unknown, so speedily did the avalanche of destruction doits do-its work. , ' Zucca, the man found this morning, morn-ing, was buried beneath a pile, of hard packed snow: fully thirty feet deep. An Italian, he had papers in his pocket that indicated that he resided re-sided for a time at Rutland, 111. Ruffetto and Zucca were both unmarried un-married men, while Paffin and Keating Keat-ing were men of family. The former's family reside at Murray, thelatter's at Butte, Mont. IT WAS EXPECTED. Now that it is all over, some are blaming the miners because they did not leave the bunk-house. -The snow cone was visible from the building, and many predicted that it would slip down, but they thought its course would be in a different direction. di-rection. Eleven years ago a slide nearly as large as the one of yesterday yester-day slid down from the identical place and hit the same house. Then it was used as a boarding house. The entire front was wrecked, but fortunately fort-unately no lives were lost. One man named Andrew Freddies, who worked at the Daly, "drew his time last week, saying that he had a presentiment that something dreadful dread-ful was going to happen. He cautioned cau-tioned his brother to throw up his job also. -years ago and has a wife and four children at Butte, Mont. Nicholas Rufetto, the third and last ma-n-found, was also dead. His arms weje broken and his forehead -discolored by four or five bruises. In-his pocket was found the by-laws of the Ancient Order of Foresters, No. 7 r 06, -.Ferris, Cal. The man not yet found is named Joe Zucca. He too, is, no doubt, dead. The recovered bodies are lying in .the carpenter shop at the Daly mine, ;and will remain there until tomorrow. John Adamson, the engineer had uuveryxlose call for his life. Had ( |