| Show fOUR MEN KILLED IN A Tragedy Occurred at Camp Bird Mine Near Ouray Cole Colo late Yesterday SCORE HAD NARROW ESCAPE t 11 by Jo flog illig 1118 Iu tur Out Grand Junction J Jim mon men were killed and t than a bad a narrow m death an avalanche ot it ROW evor tile the Camp BIrd rd mine at t late ister da day TUB TILE S K O 0 a Peter a teamster hole a John Wittmer cook The four men were to In tb the cook house houlle when almost without warn warning I ing Ina thousands of tons of oC MOW rocks rock and dIrt swept pt down don the Lbs J side lid The shanty was dIrectly i thi the of t the aNd 11 the mso were ere hurled burled tnt into the ca canyon and their b bridles I covered r with snow I It wil will l ho recovered midsummer bore before tb the b bodies 0 cast t be I I Caught In tile the strep mountain trails b by the waG which raged aU all d sin were re eight tea Ni tM tim Cm Camp r hul bullion ag stags tn in ingold gold ald and m ln It io feared i that Ihl they IJ may ha b In t the of to for th the theto I 1 a sd gt anxiety II Is felt Celt e a 1 J to their was I 0 tt feet high aa and I It rn down th thu mountain side de with Irresistible tm orce The rhe men work ln Ins II ill t the OuRS led tIed for tor ther theIr Iv but th the af shaft was wa nt not In III the peth of th the slide 1 I I It was 1 clo close enough however to tremble a as the avalanche rushed b by OF rUE of Ule Ike h heroes of the disaster is 18 isa a lf large dog one owned by EI K a teamster saw W the slide and nci 1 made a desperate elot effort to drive out of the wy way 1 he wa was caught Ild burl buried deep beneath the snow W be to dog ha had seen n h his master 4 Ought caught In t and at the snow nw b be 1 to dig Curly furiously n II kept a at It I until lie he reached the burled man am Johnson cra led out out none nOM O the worl for tor hi his experience Bi Bill Barber a a a saw tle tue shida coming and unhitched on on ot of hl his horaN bore hI he escaped on h his beck back th the ld missing el him by only a few In Inch ch chit Dad Austin hr hero o of moy many wild ride through th the mountains and n on one ot of the driver lii the heard ht heist stage II 1 jt I tl the slIde when It started tr Ie U was driving a StagS t flied with pI people Ild and the bo horse We Were plunging alne along at t I a gallop klop when h he t W Ih the lund sound Instantly he trw threw all ld his weight on th the bk brake and Mc succeeded In IA the stage ott OR Ut th vet very tie edge if tw thi Two o or of the th leding ho wert were cut o oft b by m mass or of orno snow no ald and dbr dahlia ad and I carried down Into the elyon canyon hundreds Of tl feet below The he Camp of tb thu freight YU was completely wiped ot out Porty Pony hur horv WetS into IRIo t the Oy and bur buried Id under t tens o of snow slimiest l escape ICA w was that o of Sam n More Moray eec o of ho be teamsters Hi Its 14 reached the cd edge if f tl the a wa whets b his toot oot sUpped Rod and h he pIU plunged 1 Into a aW bank The slid I p 0 over hla him 1 hf he crawled rId out in ht M Sil another tere teamster In safety y tn II the edge o of tl the ep elide Ie oay only to be d tm from his hors a and the animal thrown throw t to t the cR ground b by t the fOI force of the wa wind the 0 H Us was D not la laJ J |
