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Show AVALANCHE ON THE MILWAUKEE HITS ROTARY ENGINE SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 22. The Chicago, Chi-cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway's transcontinental line was tied up in the Cascade mountains today when an avalanche ava-lanche covering a section of track 450 feet long buried a rotarv snow plow-near plow-near Lake Keechclus, on ihe east slope of the mountains. According to reports received at the genera offices tonight, no lives were lost in the snowslide. The westbound train from Chicago found the track blocked hy snow and was sidetracked while a rotary cleared the track. The rotary crew had just emerged from a tuunel when a huge ava-laucho ava-laucho swept down the mountain, burying bury-ing the rotary aud its locomotive under several feet, ' of snow. The passenger train was not touched and was sent back-to back-to Ellensburg, where it was transferred to the Northern Pacific tracks, over which it continued its journey to Seattle. |