Show I j lEAP TU TO RIVER SAVES SAVE 25 5 MEN IN lANDSLIDE Track Workers Employed by D. D R. R G. G W. W Clearing Clear Clear- ing Line Victims of Second Sec ond Provo Avalanche Many of Those Dug From Slip Rushed to Hospitals With Serious Injuries Two Reported Missing PROVO March 29 Leaping Leaping Into the Icy waters pf of the Provo river river twenty five members of a railroadS railroad d' d dwork work crew escaped po possible death under a which buried burled thirty of 01 their fellows near near Bridal Veil falls tails twelve miles up ProVo canyon at o'clock this morn- morn f I ing Their drenched clothes congealing con con- sealing to 0 ice packs as they left the water to assist In an attempt to rescue fellow tellow workmen caught under the smothering snow blanket blanket blanket blan blan- ket those who took to the river were found In serious condition bY v by-v rescue parties sent out from here They were returned here but after a ch change of clothing many of them insisted on returning to the slide to assist in the attempts to rescue those still buried VOLUNTEERS DIG IN Several other members of of- the crew escaped the smothering smothering- smothering ava ava avalanche lanche by jumping jumping- to one side or orthe orthe orthe the other as the thundering mass sped aped past Three hundred and fifty vol volunteers volun- volun n teens from this city are now bucking buck ing the mountain of 01 snow which Mark Hislop 24 and nd Don Doti Allred 35 Provo residents buried At noon all but these t two tyro o of Qt I the more than one orie score men roen caught in the path of the avalanche had been dug dug- out Only of ot these these Leonard Leonard Sutherland 19 of Eureka Ben Carter 60 of West Vest Second South street Provo Pro and Spencer Madsen 28 also of of this city were injured so seriously as to require surgical attention They were rushed to a hospital here Carter Car Car ter and Madsen were able to wal walk into the hospital but Sutherland who Is believed to have suffered a injury spine had Dad tok b carried on a stretcher TWO MISSING S 1 No 10 0 trace of Hislop or Allred has haa I yet been found and searchers fear that caught In the face of the C catapulting catapulting cata cata- lt j snowfield the they may h Ji beep been carried hundreds of feet from front where they were working In that case little hope of ot timely recovery recovery is held out The men trapped b by this morn morn- ings ing's slide sUde were members of a railroad railroad railroad rail- rail road work worl crew crew engaged in clearing clearing clearing clear clear- ing he the Denver Rio Grande tracks of snow piled up In a slide Friday S Continued on page 3 MOVING MASS TRAPS SCORE TWO MISSING Continued from page 1 1 They were rapidly completing their task when without warning the mass mss on the hillside above broke loose and tumbled down over the tho right o of way carrying hundreds of tons of snow earth and rocks f filling fill fill- ill ill- ing In the recently cut dit channel an and burying those workmen directly in its path Many of ot the men were able to Push their way out through the tIle few feet reet of snow blanketing those on the fI flanks of the tho passing slide Im- Im they set to work free free- ing ng their companions while the S. S 0 O. O S. S was telephoned to Provo WHISTLES SUMMON MEN Whistles on factories and boiler Plants here apprised the townsfolk I of first news of the catastrophe summoned by the weird screeching 3 30 0 men assembled at the courthouse court court- h house use within twenty minutes and were dispatched by aut automobile under direction of 01 Sheriff John D. D Boyd to the scene of ot the slide Be Be- fore foie the tho first volunteer er relief relie crews crews crews' reached Olmstead reports here hero were that all but of ot the burled buried men had dug out A few are believed seriously hurt from their THIRD A rotary plow was sent out by the Denver Rio Grande to assist in clearing away the huge snow Pile and facilitate the work o of diggIng digging dig dig- ging out the entombed workmen This was the third avalanche within eight days to tear down the steep walls of PJ-OVO PJ canyon at this point disrupt power lines line and blockade traffic PLANT DISABLED The Tha first slide sUde was of comparatively comparatively comparatively small dimensions lons and In Interrupted interrupted interrupted in- in power service at the Olmstead plant at the Utah Power Light company for less than two hours I Fridays Friday's slide was of greater proportions being yards in length and more than 50 feet in depth As Aa this huge buge snow lOW bank banle I slid aUd down the canyon side J J. E. E Carter standing directly in line with the avalanche ran for safety safe safe- ty The speed of the tumbling snow was too great however and 1 Carter was caught in the face of i the huge bank and carried nearly feet He lie was rendered unconscious but was not seriously Injured according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to reports TRAFFIC BLOCKED The Friday slip came to rest its face in the Provo river and its tail tall covering the railroad tracks for a depth of fifty feet blockading traffic tra- tra tic fic over the Heber City branch of the Denver Rio Grande Immediately Immediately Imme Imme- work crews were dispatched to clear the rails Sixty-one Sixty of these workers were busily engaged digging out the huge I bank when today's avalanche caught them There was no I warning and but for the fact I that that some of the workers were at atthe atthe the fringes of th the slip all would have ha been burled buried It Is said sai I |