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Show TH K STOIl.11 IS COTTO.WVOOD. ' Aj.ia, Nov. HJ, 1ST. KJitur llrraU: I ha it en to i,-itbrm y.-.u ..f the dL-as-tiT.; that have lately befalk-n u-. Last evening, about i p. m., the tta-e driver, driv-er, 'loin Doyle, came into town leaving ins sleigh, pav-eners and mail, slating tint be wa; impeded by a btiow slide ' coming down and precipitating one pair oi' iiis aniin-ils uta. iy thirty feet , below, :i!iuo.-t ii:! 1 ifie iivim. Some thirty men wen1 soon on tf.eir way from ! Central ar.d A:i:i cities to aid m extri- , eating the b.'an from their misery. , Scarcely had thi- l.cvn accomplished, and the men on their way home, when word come to iheui that there was a ' man buried in a j-iide immediately above the old smelter, about a bail' mile Jrombere. it appears thata man named Moriisou jnd his partner were working in a tunnel near the Frederic mine. They were about to quit work and Mr. .Morris'm was at the mouth of j tho tunnel, when apprehending danger he shouted to his comrade as he came out. bearing. I Mippose, that they wouid be blocked in he ran out, and when the other man came out to (be mouth, he found himself penned in by the suow, 1 and immediately commenced working ' bis way out; and alter some considerable considera-ble struggling and scrambling, he managed man-aged to got clear, but could not see or ' hear anything of Mr. Morrison. He ! finally wended his way down to where 1 be met the men as belbro stated. Parties Par-ties were soon in search of the missing man, and continued until late last night, i but he could not be found. The Frederick cabin is also -aid to ' have been demolished, and itis-thought , there was at the time four or five per- 1 sons staying there. If this is the case, I uuuuuuiuuij nicy uiiw ueeii c-rusueu j into atoms, as the slido precipitated ; i over several cliffs, one or two upwards , I of three hundred feet, into tho gulch ; ! below, making a trcmondous avalancba i in its course. Several other slides 00- I curred during tho day, but as yet wo j have not been eblo to learn how dis-1 dis-1 asirous. This has been tho most fearful fear-ful storm ever known in this part. Trees were torn up by tho roots, and ; even houses wore thrown down, so ! great was tho wind. At tho Ohio I there is aaid to hi? another sfids and a j man In it. 'I he wires are broken. Tho mail is jus-t going and I must' closo. More anon. ! S. A. Wixom. i |
