Show iHO VISITED I IBY BY LANDSLIDE AND ANO flOODS Avalanche Started on Side of Thunder Mountain and Swept All Before It TOWN lOWN OF ROOSEVELT SCENE OF DISASTER MULE CREEK DAMMED BY EARTH AND ROCK WATER SPREADS OVER COUNTRY 1 Special to The Tho Herald Boise olse Ida June JUM X IA A special to W the Statesman from frosi Thunder Mountain tty May W II 1 Vie via Smiths Faery FelTy June JuneA 2 says saysA A landslide three th in n length and 00 feet wide WidO that piled up along Mule creek to o a depth of oC feet occurred today tay The creek was wa forced out of its t bed the th backwaters flooding Roosevelt until as this thY word Is ts sent sont of ut the buildings in town are float floating ing ins Tho placer property of ot Caswell Curran is destroyed the tM giant pipe being buried burled No lives live were lost loot and no noore nor ore r was vas as injured JK far as aa known k is Ic I in a a chaotic condition By Mall Mail and Telephone Tnt foregoing dispatch giving meagre news of or a 8 calamity overtaking the mining town of Roosevelt Roo evelt in the Thunder Mountain district was sent ut mt b by Mrs In Wayland the j by mall mail to Smiths Ferry arid nd telephoned from that point pointe e G Caswell of ot Boise BoUie one of ot the plo of Thunder Mountain when ap apprised of the disaster said he lie had the people of Roosevelt of or the thep p of a landslide having em it in connection with a 8 con eon cont t f involving the townsite and some 1118 placer property It was a very unsafe place for tor a town to be built aid Caswell CUlwell While White I regret re ret very much that the people there were over overwhelmed i whelmed helmed at the same me time U I 1 am ant not surprised ed It wax was w something that tbt might have liae occurred at any Ume time The won wonder tier der is it had not occurred before Cause of the Slide Mr Ca well said MId his brother A B Baswell BI I aswell had been at Roosevelt for o oine time working the placer pta r claims owned by the and Martin Cur of or Boise Dollie TIle The claims were located i near earthe the Mad head of J creep noen two twomile miles mile above Roosevelt R and were w being or ed d with ith a system of t hydraulics piping had bad been installed i and a giant The TIt Tb ns dispatch dl I tat s they are all ll 11 burled buried Mr Ir Caswell the th belief that the slide sUde was wa started by b the hydraulic operations Started on en Thunder Mountain Th rii town of is located i liing shore creek erek and near the eon con lun nep f with Monumental river The that the slide was wa three milos s long indicates starting at the i Curran placer claims on the tle i of Thunder mountain It followed hilp nIp reek creek down to the Monumental river and tore tOTe down don that stream some somo Itlo distance While Roosevelt Roo es Pfd pd the th slide it received a baptism 1 I iy reason of or the earth and rocks dam damping ping ng Mule Mille creek erek and perhaps the river rIve i It not likely the buildings on the 1 I i ie w were damaged as 8 they are aro aret aroI ar arv I v t Io i placer claims |