Show AVALANCHE BURIES FIFTEEN NEAR TELLURIDE COLO DEALS DEATH AND destruction besides the th known iad dead a seas boor a or more mor are III Is slug of Vict caught lu in second and third slides fill dc alf risteen teen men are known to have lost their lives and as many more injured w lille a or more at me a missing in snowa lides at the hie liberty bell aulne near telluride friday tile tho wort worst catastrophe ta of the kind kiad in the west for many years there were three separate slides the victims of tho last being rescuers of the first party the rescuers rescue ra were driven olt off tile the mountain by th the recurring aval avalanches auches of snow and the w wounded miners ifancy it any there ba left alive were necessarily abandoned to their fate fata bader tile the bow snow ri dilday iday morning ft a blizzard set let in and this started the first avalanche which carried away the buildings including the houses where the mansis slept of the liberty bell mine it was wa nearly noon before a rescue party including physicians physician reached the scene they had uncovered seven dead bodies and eight wounded when the second slide occurred the whole party was buried and at least four men killed in the second slide tile the re then determined that ft a retreat was necessary 3 in order to save their lives but they had gone only a short distance when a third avalanche overtook them killing three more of the party outright there may be many others dead under the snow there la Is no way of arriving at the number who were caught the liberty bell Is ia located about a mile and three quarters north of telluride and has baa an altitude of about feet at the mouth of the tunnel mora afore than wen men are employed in the mine and both day and t shifts are worked llie ilia buildings of the mine occupy a bench on the mountain side aide and were erected in ia a location that was supposed to be ba protected from snow slides by a ridge e which it was thought would divert the course of any avalanches that might bo be started the vast accumulation of allow within the past two v weeks beeks however pave gave tile the slide elide such volume that nothing could stay its progress until it reached tho the bottom of the canyon |