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Show SN0WSLIDE- Terrilio Avalanche of Snow at Superior Gulch. Superior gulch, Little Cottonwood canon, is a deadfall er man-trap for sovcral weeks during the winter, on account of tho snow-slides that como dewn at that point. The terrible slide of two years ago, which was attended at-tended with such sadly fatal results, oocurred thero, and every winter one or more of those snow avalanches descend the Bleep mountain at that place with tremendous fury. Yesterday there was another ol those exciting scenes at Superior gulch which always attends a snow-slide snow-slide whou human life is in danger. Tho snow broko from away up on the side of tho mountain, when tho ore teams of Mr. A. S. Patrick wore on tho road immediately bolow. With doafeuing roar and almost with tho velocity ol a bullet shot from a gun the immense body of bIiow rushed rush-ed down the rugged side of the mountain, moun-tain, increasing in bulk and gathering force as it descended, and sweeping every obstruction in its courso till it struck tho bed of the canon and was forced up on the opposite side, for a distance of several rods. Mr. Patrick and his teamsters made desperate efforts to get out of the way of the slide, but tho gentleman, with four of i his men and their teams, was caught and partially buried, though fortunately fortu-nately all escaped with their lives; only one outfit a span of mules, ore Bled and harness was lost. The team and driver were carried across the creek, and completely hid in the snow. Tho other teamsters went to work with a will and soon succeeded in relieving their fellow from his perilous situation. Notwithstanding tho savage manner man-ner in which ho had been knocked about, the young man found that he was not severely hurt, his only injuries in-juries being slight bruises. The mules and sled had not been recovered when our informant left the scene of tho occurrence. Mr, P. had offered a reward of $200 to the parties who would get his mulos out alive, and a largo number of men wero at work shovelling for them, but it was scarcely scar-cely possible that the animals could have survived under tho Bnow for so long a time, even if they were not ; killed outright. The slide, when it reached tho canon bed, was about 300 yards wide, and filled the gulch to a depth of fifty feet with snow and rocks. Tho unfortunate or perhaps fortunatemen for-tunatemen who were caught by the avalanche, thought for a few moments that they were "into Lhe jaws of death," and doubtless would have done some lively praying had there been timo. Mr. Patrick, who was knocked about pretty roughly, and came near finding a Bnow graye, says he "doesn't want any mdre snow-slides snow-slides in his." |