Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-04-10 | Page 1 | Snowslides Maroon 30 Autoists on High Colorado Pass

Maroon 30 on High Colorado Pass GEORGETOWN Cob Colo olo April 10 lJ UP More Fl More than 30 people including including including ing three small c children ildren were trapped Monday on the summit ol 01 foot Berthoud pass by snow avalanches that blocked both the eastern and western approaches tc to the pass across the continental di divide vide A just west of the summit Sunday night buried burled two autos and a a. highway snowplow and knocked a third off of the road Lieutenant Helen Durfee of Denver Denver Denver Den Den- ver a member of ot the W WAVES A VE S was m inthe the car shoved off the high high- way She suffered a serious back i injury Lieutenant Catherine Cockburn Cockburn Cock- Cock i burn D of Denver member of the theS S SPARS P PA A R It S S. S was vas in the car with I IS I'S Lieutenant Durfee but was not in In- In i Edith Foster 24 of Craig Colo Cob i ia a school teacher at La Junta Colo Cob i iwas was alone in one of the cars buried under the avalanche he She tunneled I about eight feet with a a screwdriver screwdriver screwdriver screw screw- driver the only tool available to reach the surface of the slide Three more slides roared across across' U. U S highway 40 JOA on the west side of the pass Monday and another I appeared on the tle eastern approach