Show Fi irM d to Death 1 i. i t A f W p rin k f feet F Info hil Ravane M i l dein in Cascades Carries Carrie Two Tv Coaches Prom From Track rack Rescuers Find D Day Daiy y arl fter i I Hours Hours' Many Hours Hours' Search Buried Buried Un Under iel 1 it r T f f ft Tons 9 S of Snow now Rock and Ea Earth v I I. I I 1 j i t i t United I I By Press I I LEAVENWORTH tEA Wash Jan JaiL 22 Swept to a swift death in an avalanche of snow vas was wa the fate of five passengers passengers when the dining dining dining din din- ing car and day coach of the tile Spokane Owl train frain number 25 of the tile Great N Northern railroad were hurled from the mountain side into a aravine aravine aravine ravine feet fee below at Corea Wash f forty miles from here early this this' morning S The known dead are W. W F. F CARTER Vancouver r B. B C. C BERT BERT KIRKHAM Sheridan Wy Wy- Wyom om ming in g. g S. S BATTERMAN and his baby We- We natchee atchee S The fifth body has not yet been Identified S There was no warning With a vast fIlling sace-fIlling pace filling roar the side of the them m mountain un aln suddenly ripped loose tons of f snow and earth shot down cut the two wo co coaches ches from the rest of the train and nd the next moment the shrieks of men and women from the rest of the train some of them Just a awakened wakened echoed echoed the roar of the mountain slide Pass Passengers Asleep It was a horrible homble tragedy enacted In n the wind swept and snow covered passes of the Cascades Just six miles rom from from the scene of the Wellington I Wash disaster of March 1910 when a similarly sent sixty men I and women to death I The Tho imin train lad iad been standing still sun for or almost an hour near the entrance to o the Horseshoe tunnel while workmen workmen work work- men were clearing the snow rock and dirt that had accumulated a half mile vest west of this point as the result of a small mall slide a few hours earlier It was as ocl o'clock ck and hardly any of ofle the le passengers even knew the train had ad stopped any by l length of time The he train Had Iad left lt Sp Spokane kane at 8 16 Friday night a and d dV V Was WA s due ue in Seattle this his morning at It was several hours before rescuing rescuing ing ng parties could reach the coaches In n the gulch A sleeping car was howled bowled off the track by the slide but buthe he tue couplings held hold and It was saved from rom going over the brink Five others rescued from the m. m fated cars are severely injured ln In j all aU it Is believed d there were fifteen persons In the two cars that dropped into the ravine but the rescuers are still hard at work in an effort to reach the remaining five Telegraph and t telephone wires are down and the reports of the scene of the tragedy are necessarily mea inca ger It is reported that soon after the dining car struck the ground below below be be- low it caught fire and that one person person person per per- son was burned to death Cries for help could be plainly heard by those who were miraculously saved The I cries were agonizing but those who had bad been spared in the cars above I were powerless to render aid Within a short time after the accident accident acci acci- dent the operator at Alpine two miles away flashed word that a second tremendous tremendous tre tre- tre slide was under way At this point all wires were lost Rescue e trains were hurried from Leavenworth Cashmere and chee The searching parties were more moro th than n an ho hour r In locating the day coach It was buried burled literally under tons of snow rock and luid earth Wiped Out The train carried altogether sixty passengers Late reports have added new terror in the fact that other snow- snow I slides seem unavoidable Pour FoUl bundred hundred hundred hun bun dred feet of near Corea has been wiped out She tracks and roadbed roadbed roadbed road road- bed had also been torn away and it will be ten days or longer before the I I damage can be repaired Among those who whO- are known to have escaped injury are Mrs l Batterman and son Wenatchee Wenatchee chee Mrs B B. Rogers Seattle Miss Ruth Buth Rogers Seattle Miss Gatha Lloyd S Seattle attle Miss Jessie Ferguson S Seattle G G. H H. Musser Spokane I George Georg Walker Spokane W W. R R. Scrip i ture EY rett Mrs l George GeQrge Douse Continued Q o on i il u ie j FIVEr HURLED FIVE HURLED i Continued from page 1 L okane Fern Murdock Cash Cash- ere re Wash Mrs H. H A. A Hubbard ne me Mrs Peter Shaw Vancouver C C Mrs E. E S. S Smith and son Spa ue ne ELLENSBURG Wash Jan 22 buried a thousand feet of Milwaukee l and St. St Paul acks near Lake several severalties ties les east of the Cascade tunnel and andl ep ed l up all traffic this afternoon m. m any any Hurt in Slide Trains Trams in both directions were de- de via the Northern Pacific PacificA acks A chinook hit the valley and moun- moun ins ns Friday and with intermittent tins Ins today causes fear of disastrous ides des in the mountains The snow ra ranges from 18 inches at to 14 feet near the sumit sumit sum- sum it t of the Cascades Rumors are current here that sever- sever persons were hurt in the slide The officials have applied to toe o oL L e Northern Pacific for snowplows id d men to help remove the snow |