Show r 1 BURIES j AT B MCHAM a FIRE RAGES IN COVERED HOMES DOCTORS RU RUSH H TO i i TER 15 BODIES FOUND xi 1 The Slide Followed Followed Close Upon The p Heavy Snows at the Mining Town I If f ii i 1 r- r Little Warning Given and Big f r De Death Toll Feared r 1 t s Salt u Lake Fifteen City Fifteen dead and fourteen iI Injured have been removed d froma a that burled nearly lOd 10 in in 14 residences and J two two boarding boarding board board- r ing houses near the Highland d Boy Boy oy mine at Eighty are still buried in the houses cs under the snow Fire Is reported to have br broken ken out In fn the houses below the drifts and a heavy eavy loss of life is Js feared The The Ilea heaviest vI est loss loss' of life Is expected at nt at the J. J T. T T. T McDonalds McDonald's and William VillIam RImby boarding houses which were completely covered by t tie ie e snow The snow which slid one and one half miles down the m mountain lodged n near ar arthe the Utah Utah Delaware Delaware mine In Doly's Doys gulch rf rAn r r rAn An emergency hospital has has' been erected at Bingham proper and the entire force of doctors and and- nurses av available were on hand to to rend render all assistance assistance possible possible to tho the injured f. f Rescue work is proc preceding cling rapidly but litt little o hope is held out for the 80 f or more who ho are still ent entombed in the debris The storm completely redeems Salt Lake valley from any possibility of ot water shortage Total precipitation for February is now W no-W inches as compared to an a average for the entire 1 tt of or 45 and the tile prec precipitation at the Salt SaIt Lake station for the months of October November and December and February ry to date e exceeds ex the average average year sear ear The snow blanket over the city con contains contains about 9 of an inch of water While a light storm covered the en 1 tire state the heavy snowfall was confined to the v vicinity of Salt Lake valley as a center and gradually tapered taper taper- ed off in every dir direction Yellowstone to the north r received 01 of an inch and Grand Jun Junction tion in the southeast and St. St George in the southwest received received received re re- re- re practically nothing Kanab received inches and St. St George ov over r an an inch good good storms storms' caI came l to Richfield and Monroe and sta stations lons on the west desert The st storm rm in Salt aIt Lake valley was writ accompanied for a time by a high anu despite eSPIte the tae damp clamp condition of the snow there has hris been c considerable considerable consider consider- able drifting and some parts of the city were almost snowbound The minimum temperature was Vas 30 degrees but with i rising ising barometer cold weather er will follow Wednesday night Street car service in Salt SaIt Lake was uninterrupted by the storm but the company found it necessary to keep its plows and nd brushes brushes' working all night As a a result the tracks were kept fairly Near clear and and the first cars were out on n scheduled time timed The interurban railroads nor north and sou hof of Salt Lake ex experienced dif dlf faculty In keeping their lines open High winds filled the the rights of way nay with deep drift especially between this this city city and Provo Ii Reports ports to the Union Pacific Ss tern tem are to the effect that the storm was as heaviest along its line between Salt Lake and Cache ache Junction west to Logan where the depth ranges from 12 to 15 Inches East west and a of Pocatello Idaho the storm was vas heavy ranging in depth from 10 to 12 Inches North of Pocatello it was light Rail traffic on this line was not hampered according to the report Malad valley reported a fall of from 4 to G 6 inches and Portage at the north end of Bear River valley approximately 3 inches |