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Show y JJ-" 1 Awful Disaster on Great Northern Road at Summit of Casca3e Mountains, I Near West Portal of r I Tynnel. IwENTY-THREE BODIES RECOVERED I AND TWENTY-FIVE ARE YET MASSING t Superintendent Is Blamed for Failure to Order Stalled Trains Into Tunnel to j Insure Safety. -) !i:VI3R1STT; Wash.. M-'" - 'wcntv-thicc persons arcjknnwu to bo C &d. twentv-five are inii-sini au.l a c core arc injured as a result of the ' vnlsinclic which swept down the momi-V momi-V nin side above Wellington at the west Siortal of the Cascade tunnel early this J iforninir and brushed two Great Northern North-ern trains, one the westbound Spo-id Spo-id itnne express and the other, au over-f'fuid over-f'fuid aiail tn. off the narrow ledge c? f'Mlie high line, hurling Ihem to the fttoin of t ho canyon. 200 feet below, di buplrd to the Spokane express was 3t Bperititcndent .1. H. 0 '.Will's private f jr. This was carried over the proci-iS proci-iS ice wilh the rest of the train. Three jRi-onictivcs. four powerful electric mo-Mrs mo-Mrs used to haul trams through the rjjj?jisjde tunnel, the depot al Welling-leu Welling-leu aud a water tank also wore car-5?d car-5?d awav bv the slide and buried unto; un-to; tons of dbris. Sgj'&ommunifiition with Scenic, the uear-2'i5ioinl uear-2'i5ioinl to the M-cne of the disaster. os established lalo tonight and the ihTt imcs of a few of the dead and iu-ta) iu-ta) ttrbil were received. . ' ; f Identified Dead. JwrjfAr4.UASTV';itv a. l. black- cyUlX. E-crett. Wash. v artA. C. LOXGCOY, secret a rv to Suor-"I'Hcndoiit Suor-"I'Hcndoiit O'.Will. Everett. ' JjWliWIh WALTER, Everett. Scrioubly Injured, hofsfi rnniau l. .1. I'urdo. Slightly Ialurcrt. tpiicincers Osborne. F. 8. Martin, y.rnll. Jcrqnigi'ii and Y). Teat meter "clEvprolt; lireiiHM) Gilliiian. Beiminn-ne Beiminn-ne .linki-. Monk. 15. A. Bals and Frcl ehSjlEiiii. Conductor M. A. White. Brake-sldtrjn Brake-sldtrjn T(o.-s. M;iil Tlerk A. H. Hurdsell. .kTrters A. Smith and L. Andurson and IjBinnuiiitnr W. H.-irrincton. nduitfn"1 ron(,r'5 voneived jit tlic Great ...ll'Micrn offices here it is cn'denl the ion) r ajsercxatsl loss of 111 o whs anions pas-IVis pas-IVis cu the Spokauo line.. ;ll,v3w Nonc Bncapcd Injury. n fi$Ytw wrecked I rams lie piled on top vewdi other J00 feet below the sidinc -fin which thev stood when the aval-If'c.he aval-If'c.he swept oer llicm. The ears were XrlyWs'1c' u,, '"dlinc wood and no one tors tbu tinm escaped injury. The slide rt4n4f'' thc s,,('lf l1fa which the tracks all of'elliiituii nt-e laid and rolled over Jjj edge into the valley. The danger nj1 Midcs is hot over. Warm weather oblMfho mnuntaius is nieltina the spow jfe'.ij ffO'ienlly an avalandio is heard! Dviiderm down thc mountain side. n far r,,m lnft sccrrc of thp ,isas. 1f ttttfa slide four miles l,,B nisll0(1 j;vn . ,ho f,-'invon this afternoon. The . d6;4r 15 0,chlwn fc'fon the level and 1 Insrhe canv..ns it i3 piled up jn drifts Jf than fifty feet dcop SrSSf1 ',f 11,0 Wad !irc Revert to have g 'pert passengers on the westbound Great tlicheru express b.u.nd from Spcdiane c ndHatlle, and which has been stalled cts o?)e mouutain since last Thursday. fonoi', "fro asleep when (ho slide ramV spf. other train wa tins f ransconUueu-toiW' ransconUueu-toiW' ?El m:,ll v,"hich carried no pas- -'BlrCim Bodica Recovered. l fnftetV ,hrc, bo,,ioa h:,v,: rccov. ts frfV r'PCU r twenty are injured and 'c0nnT :'.r UI",s?i". The two oa'rcST0 U1 H",rco o1' Condnctois ?,derw hook and l'ettit, both of Ever- ' BC f"U' uf tK' i not br i?"",C cnr of Superintendent 0liSuWL TrC!,tcr" flivisio f Iho n',5lSll' i, "V 10 "Perinetndeut ,i d.iripat.w j,,IOI1K le (l0(Vl 0,NpiIIi oroHlE direct i,lir ,,e fih, S ? 7lUMV bto'U. for the last .vorW J1'1 ''Scaped injury, ovr Cut Off. m Z ovc,r-helined' near tiu115 1 fen o w,ros :,re ,"vi1 respoo;', noil iupjr,,,i ,U at nr' ff.on a " , of r "'e Great Xorlhem divisional ioinr. 1U0 miles west, a rescue res-cue train of physicians ami nurses was started for the scene. This w-as followed fol-lowed by a j,eeond rescue train carry-ins carry-ins undertakers, wrecking outfits tiul laborers, which left Everett ,al S o.'ulock touiirht. As sections of tho railroad track have beeu carried away farther down the mountains, tho rescuers res-cuers could onlvjrct within ten miles of "Welliuiifon and had to make the remainder of the distance from Sl-onie. a stalion J HOG feet below the tunnel, bv foot ihronah the tortuous mountain passes. 13 v takinir a trail they can cut this distance to three miles. No Warning for Victims. The avalanche swept down the mouutain mouu-tain side short lv after 4 o'clock this morning. Tt was half a mile long aud tho snow, loose stones and uprooted trees were piled several feet deep. Most of the passengers on the. train wore asleep aud received no warning of the danger. The trains and locomotives were buried by the debris and it wis six hours after the avalanche before the rescue paities made up from workers sent to attack the snow drifts located (hem. Reports received here tonight say that the Great Northern's power bouse which furnishes electric, power lo operate ti-ains through flic Cascade Inune.l. the depot and water tank, wore swcpl awny by, the avalanche and that fhe railroad boarding house was badly vrrceked. A uu tuber of the dead and injured are railroad men and residents at Wellington. Welling-ton. Danger Was Feared. The Spokane express has been stalled at Wellington since last Thursday. Tin, passengois have been eating at the railroad boarding house aud at nearby cottages, but have returned to the Pullmans Pull-mans fo speud the night. Two days ago several pessongors, fearing a catastrophe of this kind, asked Superintendent Super-intendent O'Neill to have the train moved back into iho Cascade tunnel, where it would .be protected. Mr. O'Neill is said to have, declared that tho train was perfcctlv safe, on the siding sid-ing at Wellington and decided to leave, it there-. "Reports as to the number of passengers passen-gers marooned on I lie train vary.' The railroad connany claims that there weie only thirty people on thc train, but men who tired of the delay and walked out over the snow to Skykomish, where I liny could get a train', say that there were more than sixty people on board. Besides the passengers, several trainmen train-men and laborers are supposed lo be among the dead or injured. |
