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Show A SNOWSLIDE IN BIG COTTONWOOD KILLS A MAN. Alta, Utah, May 26-About 4 p. m., yesterday, a terrible snowslide came down the mountain side, directly over the Richmond & Teresa mine; in Big Cottonwood Mining District, instantly killing Robert Greaves, who had at the time a lease of said mine. He was chopping wood on the dump near the mouth of the tunnel. Robert Greaves, Jr., was in the cabin close to the mine. He heard a rumbling noise and rushed to the window and saw his father, running with an ax in hand, towards the ore house, about fifty feet from the dump. The old gentleman seemed to be greatly excited and knew not whither he was running. He was carried four hundred feet and buried under sixty to seventy five feet of snow. Thirty men have been working twenty-four hours but have not as yet discovered the body. It is useless to search and the parties have given up all hope for finding the body until the snow disappears. The cabin was crushed to the ground by the slide, burying Mr. Greaves' son. He was almost suffocated when the laborers from the mine came to the rescue. Four hundred sacks of ore were carried down the mountain.-Ogden Herald. |
