Show I- I I A AS L- L ii r- r I One Victim Dies Others Safe After Rescue One state highway maintenance worker was killed and three others escaped without injury when they were trapped under an avalanche of snow in Little Cottonwood canyon Monday afternoon A man tentatively identified as Ross Tiny Fillerup 37 of Murray was the last to be freed from the and he was pronounced dead on arrival at Salt Lake General hospital at 3 15 pm p.m. County fire department ambulance ambulance ambulance lance crewmen administered oxygen oxygen oxygen oxy oxy- gen to the man all the way to the hospital The other man trapped in the slide was Melvin Mclvin Walker Valker 51 of Midvale He was rescued Two Others Call Cal Help Two other highway workers caught on the fringe of the slide which roared down the north wall of Little Cottonwood canyon at atthe atthe the confluence of White Pine canyon canyon canyon can can- I yon about four miles below Al Alta I called for help when they found their companions trapped When the call for help reached authorities rescue parties were started for the scene from Salt Lake and Alta The county fire department ambulance ambulance ambulance am am- state highway patrol cars and snowplows were dispatched from Salt Lake A rescue party led by F. F C. C Koziol Wasatch national forest supervisor Monte Atwater Alta district forest ranger and Alf Engen well-known well skier went to the slide scene from Alta The slide occurred shortly after 1 pm p.m. O Of State Stale Road Shops Shop Mr Walker Valker is foreman of the state road shops at Midvale Mr Fillerup is an equipment operator One of the other two men caught by the slide Vernon E E. E Palmer 1 S S. S State st st. made the call for help Identity of his companion was not known immediately Cause of the slide was not The state highway department said the Little Cottonwood canyon road Utah would be closed for at least one and possibly two days isolating persons now in the Alta area for at least that length of time Snowfall at Alta this season has totaled inches 26 inches of which fell since Saturday Blizzard Blizzard Blizzard Bliz Bliz- zard conditions were reported inthe inthe in inthe the area Monday |