| Show IAVALANCHE IN I COLORADO CAMP Snowslide Wrecks Buildings at Monarch and Several Persons Perish Terrific Slide Came Without Warning Wrecking Buildings and Burying Inmates Beneath Fifty Feet of Snow and Dirt Sallda ColoAt least seven lives wore lost in a terrific snowsllde that came down Monarch mountain striking strik-ing the little town of Monarch at 9 oclock Monday night completely overwhelming over-whelming three business houses and burying their occupants under fifty feet of snow and dirt The wrecked buildings are Stove bklnners saloon Fred Masons roomIng room-Ing house and Fred Schraders restaurant rest-aurant the inmates of which had no warning mid no time to get out before be-fore tho crash came Several of thorn however have been rescued They are Fred Schrador and family of five James Smith and one child and Fred Mason rho slide came down with such force as to continue Its course across the main street of Monarch caving In tho front of Carrolls hotel None of tho guests or employes wero hurt however Mrs Fred Mason James Lecky and ono unknown man havo been taken from the slide dead Leckya son is under the snow but has not been located Monarch Is an active mining camp the center of n rugged section of Clmffee county to wuich access at this time of the year Is difficult except by the single track of railroad which serves for ore transportation but which is now covered with fifty feet of snow In the cuts and gulches |
