Show S BURIES 1 1110 AT 1 B FIRE RAGES IN COVERED HOMES DOCTORS RUSH TO DISASTER DISASTER TER TER 15 I BODIES FOUND The Slide Followed Close Upon The Heavy Snows at Qt the Mining Town Little Warning g Given and Big Big th o Feared Salt Lako Lake Fifteen City City Fifteen dead and fourteen Injured have been removed from a II sno slide that burled buried nearly board board- boardIng boarding boarding In 1 14 residences and two Boy Doy the Highland ing houses near mine at nt Eighty are still burled buried In the h houses uses under the tho snow Fire Is reported to have broken out In the houses below the drifts and a heavy loss of ot life lICe Is feared The Tho heaviest loss of ot life lito Is expected at the J JT T McDonalds McDonald's and William boarding houses which were completely covered by the snow The snow snow which slid one and one ono half miles down the mountain lodged near the Utah-Delaware Utah mino In Dots Doty's gulch been An emergency hospital has erected at Bingham ham proper and tho entire force torce of ot doctors and nurses available were on hand to render all assistance possible to the Injured Rescue work Is preceding rapidly but little hope Is held out for tor the SO 80 or more who ubo ho are aro still entombed In the tho II debris The storm completely redeems Salt Lake valley alley from any my possibility of ot water ater shortage Total precipitation for tor February Is now Inches as compared to an average for tor the entire month of ot and the tho precipitation nt at the Salt Lake station for tor the months of ot October November ember and December and February to date ex exceeds coeds the average year Tho The snow blanket over the city con contains twins about 9 of ot an inch of at water While a n light storm covered the entire en entire tire st state te the heavy J snowfall was confined to the vicinity of ot Salt Lake valley alley as a center and gradually taper taper- tapered tapered tapered ed ort oft in er e every direction Yellowstone to the north received 01 of or an Inch end and Grand Junction In the southeast and St George in the southwest re- re received received re received practically nothing Kanab received 13 1 inches and St StGeorge St George over an Inch good storms came to Richfield and Monroe and stations on the west desert The storm In Salt Lake valley alley war wat accompanied tor for a n time by a high wind and the damp condition ot of the snow there has been consider consider- considerable considerable able drifting and some parts of ot the city were almost snowbound The mInimum temperature was 30 degrees but with rising barometer cold weather weather er will follow tollow Wednesday night Street car service in Salt Lake was uninterrupted by the storm but the I company compan found It necessary to keep Its plows and brushes working all night As a result the tracks were kept fairly clear and the first cars were out on scheduled time The interurban railroads north and south Fouth of ot Salt Lake experienced dif dif- dif difficulty in keeping their lines open High winds filled tIlled the rights of ot way with deep drift especially between this city and Provo Reports to the Union Pacific system tem tern are to the effect that the storm was heaviest lest along its line between Salt Lake and Cache Junction west west to Logan where the depth r ranges ng s from 12 to 15 inches East west and south of or Pocatello Idaho the storm was heavy ranging in depth from 10 to 12 inches North of ot Pocatello It was light Rail naU traffic on this lIne was not hampered according to the report Malad aile valley reported a fall tall ot of from Crom 4 to 6 inches atthe and Portage at the north end of ot Bear River all valley e approximately 3 Inches |