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Show TERRIQL KXOW-SLIDK IS COT-TOS COT-TOS WOOD. Klghtor Ten Men nd Te.ni, Baried And Killed. The following sad intelligence was received last night by Deeeret telegraph tele-graph line: Alta, Utah, Dec 20 A moBt fearful fear-ful snow-.-lide occurred near the old iimeher, below Central City, to day, in which it is suppo-ed from six to ten teams and teamsters were buried. Ihree of the teaujjtijrri dug themselves out; some of the teams were dug out, but none of the men except the three liefore mentioned. A number of teams from both ways were pas-ing each other when the slide came. It is dimcult to learn the number of men and teams buried, some say five, tome eiht, and others twelve. Kieht mules in all were found, all badly brni.-ed, some dead; one with iia jcg-i broken was Bhot. One man, with pieces of harness, sleds, etc.. was carriel at least a thousand feet. It is thought impos-;ku impos-;ku ra u.. :i spring. There is grcit excitement here to-nii(ht; the Bcarch will be resumed in tie morning. From Mr. Wallace, wbo was a passenger pas-senger on the down coach, we gather the following additional particulars of the catastrophe. He says that the coach was in the rear of some forty or fifty ore teams, and that the avalanche of snow came down the ridge of the mountain side about a half mile below the old Bruno furnaces. Tbe locality of the slide will be recollected by persons familiar with the canyon as beiDg at tho point of the ridge where, until late in the .fall, a number of springs burst forth on the mountain side of the road. He says that the staze was in waiting to pass the long line of teams in front when all at once the slide, with a width of about two hundred yards, and having hav-ing a depth of about ten feet, came down with terrific violence, carrying men, mules and wagons entirely across the creek some fifty yards distant, and burying them on the opposite Bhore. The news of the tragedy was immediately sent to Central Cen-tral and Alta cities, and a large force of men, armed with all of the shovels procurable in both towns, came to tbe rescue. Whilo a large force was engaged en-gaged in endeavoring to unbury men, mules and horses, others made a temporary tem-porary track across tho route of the slide, in oider that the mail coach and rear teams might pass, Everybody went to work with a will; animals with broken limbs, that were disentombed, were shot, and others were left standing stand-ing in snow pits, there being at the time the stage left, no means of extricating extri-cating them. Mr. Wallace thinks that there are only four mon certainly lost, and when he left the ground about 150 men were busily at work endeavoring to find their bodies- Wo know the locality, and tho force of the avalanche must have been tremendous to have carried men and teams to the opposite op-posite side of the creek, as from tho highway to the bed of the ravine, the grade of the declivity is hardly over six degrees. We telegraphed tele-graphed lost evening, just before the Deseret oflico dosed, to Alta, to ascertain ascer-tain the names of the lost, but only received the reply that on account of the great excitement, it was then impossible im-possible to ascertain who were rescued and who wcro still buried. It is a melancholy certainty that all who were not rescued previous to tho leaving leav-ing of tho stage, are dead, and we anxiously await further and fuller ad-1 vices. |
