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Show Three Killed in Idaho Avalanche MULDOON, Idaho. Dec. 13 UP) Thirty men today hunted for the body of Harold Brown. 24. killed with two other men when tons of snow, loosened by warm rains, roared down a steep mountain moun-tain slope across a mining road near here. The slide occurred Saturday. It was Sunday before nea-s of the trsgedy which swept sway three of the'Carf eld lesd and silver mine's s.x inhabitants wss l:nown. The men had been plowing the narrow, three-mil road, carved 1 through the side of the ridge aoove a deep ravine, in an effort to keep it open so they would not be msrooned. Unseasonal Chinook rsins struck, loosening and aoaking a light anow until it became a deadly mass of destruction There were two slides. , j The first struck suddenly, roll-i roll-i Ing the men snd eiijh:-ton tractor dwn into the bottom of the ravine. ra-vine. A second roared down over j - a 2000-foot front, adding more snow and debris to the first, and j oblitering' trace of the road. The dead: Leonard Gravit. 28, Carey. Idaho: Harold Brown. 24, Bellevue. Idaho; Ward Daggett, 42. Nampa. Idaho. E. W. Rowland, Nampa. manager man-ager Of the mine: Tom Bowen, the three men killed, and Mrs. Leon-srd Leon-srd Gravit, wife of one of the victims, vic-tims, hsd been at the mine. . Saturday the men acre at the upper camn,- 300 feet from the mine portal. . Rowland asked the ! ' . (Conllnued u para Two) I i (Columa Pour) I |