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Show j iBiO SN0WSL1DES B . IN IDAHO GANYONS fTvro Men Reported Dead as tho Ee-( B suit of an Avalanche Near H' Custer City. R , Reports from central Idaho 3how un-K un-K usually sovero weather and heavy snow-B snow-B ' slides, causing loss o life. Near Custer K City four men were covered In slides V: recently, of which number ono Gene B Truskl was rescued, by great efforts on B tho part of citizen) of Custer City. Thomas, John Davis and Silas Homer are reported dead. Tho latter was an H old-time resident of Custer and a famous trapper. He was entombed somowherc botwecn Custer City and tho Sunbeam H mine on Jordan creek, tho route to tho Loon Creek mine. Tho Custer Pros-H Pros-H pector says: "The Miners' union held a H meeting- Thursday and appointed four-teen four-teen men to search for Silas Romcr. They 1 returned Friday evening. Homer may not H he found until spring." H A lotter received In Salt Lake yestor- B day by J. A. Czlzck says tho Lost Packer H leads at Loon creek have suddenly H widened to ten feet on tho 3XV-foot level H und assay $78. Traffic Is temporarily H 'blocked by snow between tho towns of B Custer and Challls. BOISE, Ida., Feb. 21. A special to tho H Statesman from Huntington says: A Hi imowsllde occurred today about seventeen H miles west of this place and flvo miles H cast of Durkeo that delayed tho east- H bound passenger. The wrecking crew H; left early this afternoon for tho scene of H the slldo and It Is expected to have the H track cleared soon. |