Show 6 iDIE DIE AS SLIDE CRUSHES CAMP igl ig t Snow Tow Toward rd Survivors MANCOS MANGOS Colo Cola Feb 1 iS 19 UP UP-A UP A rescue party of 20 men fought its way through the deep snow toward towan the Hesperus mine today where a had wiped out a mining camp and taken a toll of six lives Jives Headed by Sheriff Jess Robinson the 20 men traveled slowly on snowshoes snowshoes snow snow- snowshoes shoes and pulled toboggans upon which the bodies will bo be brought to level countr country A tractor was able to break through tho the huge drifts to Schubert flat fiat five miles from the scene of at the tho fatal bu but but from this place to the mining camp the men had to proceed on snowshoes snow snow- shoes Sen en Hartley who es escaped aped injury when the avalanche struck late Sunday guided the party to the mine Hartley fought his way through tho the drifts for tor ten hours yesterday to bring word of the Catastrophe catastrophe ca ca- to Mancos Vo Womans Woman's m ans Body Found Five miners and a woman cook were were killed and two men rilen were were in injured injured in- in when the struck the camp and swept it into a n. ravine Twelve men escaped injury am and were wera at work worle today searching for forthe forthe the tho bodies of their five companions buried under tons of ot snow rock and debris The body of Mrs Janie Janio Roes Rees camp cook of Cortez Corte Colo Cob had hac been removed from tho the slide The Tho bodies which had not been beer recovered were Earl Wyman Vyman of Denver Denver- Parley Jensen Roy Cuter Guier Clint Noble Nabla and Charles Roessler all of Mancos Only portions of the cook shack and the stamp mr were left Jeff stand stand- ing Tho slide about three quarters ola ata ofa ol of a mile long Jong started at tho the top of ofa ofa ofa a ridge 1000 feet above tho the camp With a crash and a roar it tumbled down tho the mountain and carried virtually virtually vir vir- vir- vir every building in tho the camp 1150 feet and dumped them theta into a adeep adeep adeep deep ravine Tells of Catastrophe Although tho the slide struck the camp late lato Sunday it was not until last night that Hartley nearly exhausted exhausted ex ex- hausted staggered into Mancos with an account of ot the tragedy I I was in the mill at the time the slide struck Hartley said I 1 didn't realize what was happening until tart part of ot tho the building broke away and skidded into the deep canyon When I climbed out of the mill mUl I saw that the bunkhouse part of the cook shack the storehouse tool shed and other buildings had b been en swept away The boys yelled that some some- of the men wore under the pile and we started digging We Wo found Mrs Rees She Sho was still sUll' alive but died a short time after wo we vo had removed her from the snow Neil 20 20 and AlvIn Fink 20 20 were removed from the debris Both had been injured seriously but Hartley thought they would re re- re cover I i 1 |