Show II I EIGHT MN ARE BURIED AliVE BV B AN AVALANCHf Were Caught by Mammoth Slide 01 Snow and Four Were Dead Before Be-fore Their Comrades Could Dig Them Out Belllngham Warili IClght miners wore burled alive In tin avalanche ol snows nt the llrlttanla mlno on Howe bound forty miles north of Vancouver Jour wore taken out dead four worn rescued Two Japanese wore In the group and ono wa killed The men had been working In the logging cnmp owned by tho Copper company seeming material to tlmbci the mine About 9 oclock a storm broke over the mountain and the workmen work-men started down tho Incline to thv mine They had not proceeded far when a huge uass of snow swept thd side of the hill burying tho men in Its path Fellow workmen rushed Instantly to tho scene and began digging out their comrades Tho first man taken out was alive but unconscious Tho rescue party next caught sight of a pair ol foot spread apart and sticking up out of the snow The mon worked as fast as possible but for some time it was not known how many men had ben covered by the slide Several hours had elapsed before be-fore last body was recovered Tho rescued Japanese who was the last of the men to bo brought out had boon bulled for almost an hour under thirty feet of snow None of the rescued men It Is believed be-lieved will die as a result of tho accident ac-cident |