| Show THE AVALANCHE The same old story from Alta is told grin this morning It comes along with a regularity that may be counted Upon with little likelihood I that ii will flail It may come earlier or later than in previous years but it seems necessary neces-sary that it must come This year the disaster L unusually appalling in its results the terrible tale of death and destruction being told in all the mournful mourn-ful details in another part of THE JlFBALD It is no time to rail against late anu quarrel with the destiny which has again sent a number of brave men and men and women to their long home over the identical and awful route that so many have been made to travel in years past these men and women are buried in the snow at Alta while others are in peril The firstduty of the living is to rescue the few who are in such danger and to recover the bodies of the victims of the horrible avalanche Already we have heard men berating the courage and condemning con-demning the unwisdom of inviting violent death by remaining in Alta aUcr the season Tor snowslides sets inn t in-n is better to talk of this after the f heroic jet wonderful duty noted herein I II t Las been performed in full And even then it will be a waste of words and a I i reckless squandering of suggestions The poor men and women who have I J been riitblessly stricken down were It I not in Alia because they preferred t pre-ferred the isolation the discomforts and I 1 dangers of tie snowbound camp to the pleasures and safety of city homes they were there for the same reason which I andaees the Swiss peasant to brave the terrors of winter in the Alps the same II < < son that mans the worlds ships that lakes men into direst danger and in I I i daees them to face any terrors that may ie presented r they were there for the I fcreatlitbafc theymust have It was not I a matter of choice between existence in Alta and lines cast in the worlds I r pleasant places We can honor and praise them for they were heroes and I heroines who had t courage to fight I iiMuwa battle ngainstnatures threaten I I fags The weak and the timid would nol t I no-l dare the terrors of the treacherous I eattilp because they are less men and less women than the little band whose sad fale we mourn I |
