Show uius abour am ON TUB THE SUMMIT sm T wo find tho the following particular account of the snow alido on the donner lake louto in tho the dutch flat enquirer of march 96 wo we are arc indebted to K R penny the foreman of the camp that was buried by b UY a i snow alido on saturday morning last march ad for tho the following particulars of the lamentable occurrence tho the camp is ft a lo 10 log house situated a short di distance tance east cast of too tho largo large tunnel behrig being run ran by the central pacific bifi railroad Eail road at through gh tho the surn summit mit and con bained at the time of tho the slide fifteen white men the avalanche tools took place about half past 4 1 I whilo while all in the houta were in bed smashing in tho the roof and covering the entire house v with ith snow to ft a great dep depth th and making i prisoner prisoners of everyone within for from to fousteen fou iteen houis tho the bunks ranged around the walls protecting all save three of tho the inmates who r wore ore killed ten of tho the fifteen acro rescued without being injured two acio badly cruised when taken out but 12 are arc row now doing well and will probably probable recover in a short time and three as before stated were killed outright tho the following particulars were gathe redby our informant aiom aiom an examination of the papers of the men killed thomas inglis was a scotchman by birth being and was 60 50 years oj of ago he had been ten years in california and had worked at mining iu in this county near pine grove formerly ho he camo came to this state from pennsylvania where here ho be leaves a family james dully came to this state in and formerly lived and worked in sacramento ram cato ho he has a brother and other relatives in chicago illinois ho he was about 35 years of inge jamer nagle wa about 25 years of age by birth an Irishman and came to this state in from philadelphia the three bodies were x ere brought down on tho the railroad on thursday last one was belied here anti and the other two carried below |