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Show DEATH IN A LANDSLIDE- Om White Woman and Forty Indians Swept to Thtilr Death. Nanaimo, 15. C, July 13. News 1ms been received of it heavy lamlslido on tlio banks of tho Skeeini river at tho 1 Xurt h Pacific cannery, restiliing in tho death of one while woman and forty Indians. On the morning of July tho 71 h nine houses, with their occupants, were swept rt'.vay. Thirteen bodies have been recovered. Early in tho morning n great rushing noiso was heard iu the 'direction of a high iiiotiu-laitis iiiotiu-laitis :t! the back of t he cannery. Inn moment tin avnliiiioho of rocks uud earth and trees was upon Iho doomed settlement, carrying everything before it into the slough close by the cannery. Tho occupants of the houses had time to gel outside tlio building, but before thev could escape from tho advancing tori-cut of debris they were caught mid curried along al n fearful xeiocily. Tlio body of the foreman's wife has not yet been found. But thero is not tho slightest hope for tiny living thing within the range, of the terrible slide of boulders, trees and earlh. Tho slido ju.-t missed the cannery building about two feet, had it struck' the cannery tho .death roll would have reached into hundreds. |