Show I AHO VISITED I IBY BY LANDSLIDE AND 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 Special to The Herald Boise Ida June tA IA S A special to the Statesman from Roosevelt Thunder Mountain May day 11 M vie va vi Smiths Ferry Farry June 2 says saysA A landslide three miles in length and ando IX o j feet wide that piled pHd up along Mule I creek to a depth oC of 1 feet teet occurred lure Jr IJ re today The creek was vas forced to d out Or ot its bed the backwaters flooding Josevelt sevelt until as this word is Ia sent senti i ost of the buildings in town are float t ting mK ng The placer property of o Caswell is destroyed the giant pipe being buried No lives Uv were lost bet and no none itne ne was injured so o far ar as known K try thing is ig in a chaotic condition By Mail and Telephone The foregoing dispatch giving meagre news of or a calamity Cf overtaking the mining town of Roosevelt in n the Thunder Mountain district was wae sent mt ut b by Mrs Wayland the Roosevelt postmistress by mail mati to Smiths Ferry in nj nd telephoned from that point t 4 G O Caswell of Boise Boille one of the plo pera of Thunder Mountain when ap an of the disaster ter said saki he be had warned the people of o Roosevelt of the of a landslide having em it u In connection with a con and Involving the townsite iDine llIe placer property It SIt was a avery very vet unsafe place for or a town to be built aid Caswell While White I regret very that the people there were over v helmed at the same DOH time I am not surprised It was something that might have hae occurred at any time The won ier ir is it had not occurred before Cause of the Slide Mr fr said his brother A B Baswell Baswell aswell had been at Roosevelt tot for some Mime time working the placer pta r claims owned ned by the brothers and ad Martin Cur Curat at of Boise The claims were located I near flear the bead head af clea aDe two miler above Roosevelt were were being f jf or with ith a system s em of hydraulics piping had been installed and nd a giant The Th Tb mans dispatch I Mat tats s they ate are all buried Mr Caswell the belief that the slide was wae w Hartt by the hydraulic operations Started on en Thunder Mountain Th ih rho town of is III located I mg sho Shore he e creek and near the con fiu nef with Monumental river The nt that the slide was three mil s long lone Indicates starting at the thed claims on the theM i I d t well wel Curran placer M of f Thunder mountain it followed Mul creek down to the Monumental and tore down that stream some som Roosevelt R es esp esP t distance While hilI aped p d I the th slide it received a baptism 1 reason of or the earth and rocks dam damming ming Mule creek c er ok k and perhaps the river rivet c It Tt not likely the buildings on the I J y i it were damaged as a they are areti ar ari arti i ti t placer claims |