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Show tue torrwswooD catastro- I PIIK. I The following received by iJes-erct iJes-erct telegraph ycteiday and last night: i Alta, Utah, 27. Ono man found I dead was generally known as Dutch Pete from Camp Douglas. Roy Dibble, Dib-ble, K. Brown, Tom. Trip pic tt and brother not sure about the latter and two of their ttaoj.'Ueri', one of Siit1!;'s teauiMers, name:not learned, and two of livnham's tcamtern, are Million?, and it t aid th-y had three miners aboaid, but it is not certain; if so, they mui-t have met the same fate. The njau l'uund wjj Lruiicd in a most frightful maDoer. Upwards of 2w men are now at the plidc, shoveling an'l probing with iron bars, in hopeB of fitidiny more. The t-u(crintendcnt nf iho Kinma. and a larv-e force. &F well as every spare man in Alta, are doing their best to find the remainder. The slide was 2'JU yards in width, and came from the very tops of the mountains, moun-tains, nearly two miles in length and swept everything before it. Alta, 27. No other bodies except those of two mules have been found. The search will be resumed in the morning. A party of men who left there late this evening found some hair of a man on some, brush, but nothing more of the missiDg bodies. It looks like more storm. The latest news from Alta, given above, increases the numlcr of fatal r casualties, as published by ub on yesterday. yes-terday. ..Messrs. Euncan -and Smith, who came down last night, and were at the locality of the "slide" as late as 3 p.m. yesterday, say that the number of lives lost will certainly reach twelve; but they include in this number three minors said to have been on ono of the down bouod wagons, andinreBpect to theso men, wo hope and have cause to believe, that they are mistaken. Tbe violence of the storm raging at tho timo of the slide, prevented a warning of its coming, and nence a,i opportunity of escape was lost. Dan Johnson and Mr. Laogford were detained de-tained on the very edgo of the ival-ancho, ival-ancho, in fixing a broken single-tree, and thus escaped, tho only notice to them of the catastrophe, being that they were covered with snow flakes as if thrown upon them by a monster snow plow. Ono man saved himself, although badly bruised, by grasping and holding on for life, to a firmly rooted shrub, and allowing the slide to pass over him. Another eECipcd by sheltering himself under the lee of a huge boulder; and still another was swept across tho rapid and full ourreot of the canyon creek, high up on the hillside, and left in an inverted position but unharmed. Mr. Duncan says that men, muloa, sleds, and sacks of ore were carried across the stream. Tho suot, as usual in licavy slides, compacicu oioaeiy Hi- iuo ond of its route, rendering excavation very difficult and varied in depth on the borders of the creek and against the hill that blocked its progress from ten to thirty feet. We have heard various rumors as to the names of persons per-sons lost, but wo decline to publish any other names than those contained in our dispatches, until wo can procure more definite infoimation. |