Show AVALANCHE BRINGS RINGS DEATH DEATH TO THREE MEN SEA SEATTLE TLE Wash Feb 19 Three Three men perished n in a on Prince of Wales ales Island on the morning moring of February 3rd Their Ther bodies bodles were carried 40 t feet feet et down a mountainside by the avalanche and burled buried deep beneath the snow The Te bodies were recovered The news was brought the city by one of the Alaskan Alaskan Alaskan Alas Alas- kan steamers which arrived yesterday The Disaster arrve at the Copper company's mines near the h head ad adof of Scowl arm The men were employed In the company's tunnel and were on their way to work w-rk wh when n caught in the great rush of snow They had Just left the house cook-house which is 3 yards from the entrance to the tunnel tunnel A fourth fourthman man man Charles Chlrles Farran remained in the house cook-house to wash up the breakfast dishes This saved his life It I was still dark when the men started over the trail trai for r the tunnel after eatIng eating eat eat- ing their breakfast They had no warpIng warp warn ing of their Impending doom until they were engulfed by the avalanche that suddenly came roaring n down the mountainside moun moun- on which c the mines are r situated t t Hearing ot the crash Farran rushed from the tho house cook-house in search of ot his compan- compan lo ions lons In the darkness he could find no tr trace ce of ot them but hoping hoing that they had reached the tunnel and were safe he hastily hasty ran to its is mouth only to find that the they were missing He searched in the snow for their tracks but could not find them and then real realizing what had hap hap- he quickly spread the news of the catastrophe among the miners In the vi vi- vi emily A rescue party of six was formed which searched all 1 da day for th the l lost st men hut finally Were Were compelled to abandon the work thinking it hopeless Later Later Later-a a fUrther further further fur- fur ther search made and serch was the bodies re re- covered |