Show feet over burying prospector e camp particulars of to have occurred at sunrise city alaska about march 20 have been rei in seattle in a letter from ben a pioneer miner of that section to W D van S acklen the elide did not occur at bannse but at smith a camp on lynx creek twenty two miles above sunrise the dead are lee S graham san jose cal fred shackleford rhode dick lane cal henry hogan known as old man hogan ban franc the slide started on the side of an gid jacent mountain and came thun deri ing down over a cliff on to the camaj beneath a sheer fall of feet there bad been noti ing to give the benj warning of tl air danger and the first known of the catastrophe was when they heard the roar of the great bodaj sliding down the mountain there were at the camp in all seven men two besides the five who were killed the entire seven were buried under the mass but frank fleeharty Flee hardy a young man was not buried as deeply as the rest and by dint of six hours hard work succeeded in getting out of the slide As soon as he reache dj the surface with others he began digging for his co the first man reached was gilbert devoe he was alive but the others were dead when found |