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Show DEATH IX ICE GORGE. AN ENTIRE KAM1LY DROWNf D IN YELLOWSTONE RIVER. Ten Ilodlen Have Already Been Ke oere and Oilier A re Mla.iuK Ice Oorite aiiAd the Itlver to Overflow. Glcndive, Mont., April 11. An ie gorge In the Yellowstone river at this point caused the stream to overflow, drowning four persons. Eight more are missing; three spans of the steel bridge are washed out, causing a losa of S.'', 000; the Northen Pacific tracks are inundated and possibly washed away for some distance, and the loss to llye stock by drowning will involve s large sum. The dead persons are: Mrs. R. W. Snyder, wife of a rancher; Miss Nellie ReagHn, her niece; M iss Rose Wybrecht, a visitor to the Snyder ranch; Eugene V. O'Connor. The missing are: James Sullivan, wife and six children. The ice began moving at 7:30 o'clock in the evening, and continued to flow until 9:30, when it formed a gorge. The Snyder party, noticing the backwater, back-water, started for the Northern Pacific Pa-cific tracks, hoping thus to escape drowning, but before they coveredhalf the distance the water was waist deep and they took refuge in a tree. O'Connor O'Con-nor was the first to be washed from the tree, Mrs. Snyder the second and Miss Wybrecht third. A huge piece of ice struck the troe and broke it it two, carrying of Miss Reagan. It is thought that the family of James Sullivan, wife and six children, were swept away by the overflow, as no trace of them can be found. |