Show SCORES OF POP REPORTED KILLED BY SLIDES Wrecks Camp Bil d Mill in House House and Room Carried Down Dowil DownS S Details Are Meagre Oura Ouray Cole March ISA mammoth in the Mount district six miles south of Oura Ouray last night wrecked the Camp Bird mine mill tram house e boarding house and rea reading inS room Cressy Is known to have been n killed and it is feared leared other lives were lost A number of men melt it is said were seriously The property loss Is estimated at from to Th Camp Bird bunk e adjoining the reading room which was wrecked escaped being engulfed and crushed Th le were between and miners and mill in this build building lag ing when the slide came down The resi residence residence dence of Manager Cox also eS o aped destruction by a narrow margin The slide bad largely spent itself before reaching the assa assay shops and general of offices lees of time the company n near ar the tho mine minet t Slide Moves Annually I This avalanche which moves annually and is called the United States slide was larger Jarger this year than Ix before fore It started moVing last evening at j 7 follow folIo folIoing following ing its usual course As a result it spends its force bY the time it reaches the gulch b bUt t last night It continued on to the Camp Bird stamp D mill U crushing it like an eggshell This large mill being in the direst direct path of the checked it terrific force otherwise e it would proba probably probably bly have reached and destroyed the bunk bunkhouse house honse Telephone communication with the Mount Su distrIct has hus been Inter Interrupted Interrupted for four days and the first news of the di a ter was brought to this city this afternoon b by County Commissioner Smith who left the mine at daybreak A Al l rescue party started out at once but it take them several hours to reach reachE E a time the roads and trails are blocked wIth snow Scores Reported Killed A 4 telephone message rec received here from Cram Silverton at 3 stales that a report has be t received tb there rc that scores were killed by the destruction of the Camp amp Bird Bir boarding house but this report Is discredIted here Time The Camp Bird club house was wait one of the finest finet ever built fer a similar pur purpose pose Camp Bird Is Ute the mine sold by Thomas Wasi Wa fn the mint mine owner several years to an English company |