Show FIFTEEN MINERS I m v v KILLED IN SLIDE AVALANCHE SWEEPS DOWN ON BUILDING SMOTHERING AND CRUSHING CRUS ING MEN I Men Were Wet Sleeping When Monster Strikes Building Carrying Occupants Down Mountainside Halley Hatley Idaho Fifteen Fifteen men dead fifteen others missing is the result of an avalanche which swept down the he mountain and and destroyed the mine mino bunkhouse comp compressor and supply house louse of the Federal Mining Smelter Smelter ter tel company at tho the North Star mino mine on February Forty five men were sleeping In the bunkhouse when a monster snows tide without the slightest warning struck the building trapping the men and carrying them down the mountain thrown from their beds and battered batter d against the walls of the tumbling building The compressor and the supply house louse were hit first and the bunkhouse bunkhouse bunk bunk- house piled on top of or them The bunkhouse was a two story building about fed and when rescuing crews crews arrived only a small part of one corner orner was visible News of the tragedy was at once communicated to Ha Halley Hailey and every available man was rushed to the assistance assistance as as- of the imprisoned men fifteen fifteen teen of whom were dug out of tho the bunkhouse with only slight scratches The bodies of the fifteen dead were wert also recovered here The slide carried tho the bunkhouse oft the lower floor leaving the floor In its original position the building being beIng being be be- ing crushed to pieces I |