Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-24 | Page 8 | Guggenheim Party Caught in Slides

GUGGENHEIM PARTY CAUGHT II SLIDES Aboard Train in Idaho Blocked by Snow in Mountains. Special to The Tribune. WALLACE, Idaho, March 23. Simon Guggenheim, head of the American Smelting Smelt-ing & Refining company, accompanied by several other officials of the IMg metal concern. Including E. I. Newhouse and Edward Brush, were aboard a Northern Pacific train which was caught between ; two snowslides on the mountain divide be- j tween Idaho and Washington, according j to word received here late this afternoon. The slides occurred about 10 o'clock this morning. A slide 500 feet in length oc- ' curred ahead of the train, while a 100- i foot bridge was torn out to the west. I A special train has been dispatched to 1 bring back the party, as well as the 200 , other passengers aboard. There have been constant snows in this region for the j last four months, with only slight thaws. An exceptionally heavy snowfall during the past sixty hours tempered off into a rain adds to the possibilities of slides. Several mines in the hills are covered up. One man, Paul McCarthy, was caught in a slide at Mullan and buried. Men and their families are being brought from the canyons into Wallace until the danger parses. Adozen houses have been demolished by slides.