Show miners have close gall call camp burro feb 3 1909 pierre peugeot prest the burro mining co dear sir I 1 am sending this special 0 report to you of an occur bonc e that happened jan ath thinking it may be of interest to you and your friends jan 7 1909 8 a m cloudy today was ono that I 1 will re member till all tho the days of 0 f my life and wo till all luul had a very narrow escape from donth cleath I 1 had just gone into tile tho tuil tunnel liol tit at 1105 a ra in the iho men wore were all in tho the tun nl working with the exception of mr kr arntz atz our timber boss and waltar the japanese cook who were in tho the cabin whon when wo ave heard it a roar and ruin bling blinoff 0 and tit al once know that a snow slide was occurring out sido side it camo came down vory very fast and as it covered the tunnel entrance tho the back air pressure was fierce and hurt our oars cars and eyes lor for a short shorb time wo we had considerable amount of tunneling ti back of us uh so we did not nob need to worry about air but what did worry us was whether mr M r kratz tho the jap and tile tho cabin us its well had all beeri curried carried away I 1 got tho the men inen busy in a hurry digging us out thoy they hud had boon been at work some time whon when wo we heard shoveling on the outside and that was the best sound I 1 over heard in III iny y life as I 1 know knew mr kratz at least had not been killed Finall finally after ter hellsing helloing hel hol loing our lungs out to make him hear us so lie he would know wo we were all cafe safe wo we wore were able to communicate and I 1 believe there never was a happier bunch of men than we wore in tile the whole world to find out everything was 0 K including the cabin the slide was an immense one and cleat cleaned iod tho the whole basin out some quarter of a mile wide certainly we will have no need toV arryl jora tor a month at boast ast until silo she snows up lip f ull full again if wo we had not built our cabin where wo we did and strong it would havo have been goodbye good bye to home and kratz the slide went each side just justas as we figured last a st summer but at that the edges burst in the door and filled the cabin three fourths full of snow put out the tire fire etc kratz got busy at once and dug his way out 0 ut of the cabin with a long handled frying pan found the shovel and with him on the outside and us on the inside we soon had the glorious words to each other that all wore were safe I 1 took a picture of the slide as soon as I 1 could get into the cabin for my camera all climbed to the top and took some snaps where she broke loose I 1 developed pictures in tile the evening evening and they turned out good the men worked the balance of the day shoveling snow and I 1 think by tomorrow loon noon wo we will bo be in running t order again mr bushnell our 0 u r assayer also ren dered us great service during our trouble yours respectfully LEON PE PEUGEOT supt bupt burro mining minim in co |