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Show III AID CHIIOIEI MEABWE Ml Hundreds of Lives Imperiled ly Avalanches; Property Worth a Million Destroyed. DENVER, March 19. By the loss of twelve lives in a snowsli.de. ncar.Sllvorton today tho death roll 'resulting from the... gieal storm or the past week In the Hnn; Juan mining districts has been Increased to at least fifteen. At Silvjrlon, at tho Camp Bird mine, a few mllesi from Ouray, and at Coal Basin, Ba-sin, on the western slope, hundreds of miners, their wives and children are facing fac-ing starvation. Mills and other mining property estimated esti-mated to be worth a million dollars, have been swept to destruction In deep gulches. Cattle Are Perishing. The cattle on a thousand hills are reduced re-duced to skin and bones. On Cumbres pass, the highest point on the narrow gaugo road from Durango to Alamosa, a tralnload of passengers Is ir.r.roon;d. dependent for warmth on a ir eager supply of coal In the engine tcn-C'er, tcn-C'er, and for food on what hardy mountaineers moun-taineers on snowshoea can bring them. Half of Colorado Paralyzed. P.allroad traffic Is paralyzed and telephone tele-phone and telegraphic communication is Interrupted over at least half of the State. Tho body of Edward Kk-ckncr, a ranchman, ranch-man, agel 7. was found today frozen stjff In the road three miles from his Lome, near Pagosa Springs, Colo. Earnest Barnes, aged ZO, who left al-don, al-don, Colo., on horseback ln the blizzard last Friday, has not been heard of since, and Is bellevod to havo perished. |