| Show twisk Tw AVALANCHE BURIES FIFTEEN 1 COLO DEALS DEATH AND lies ldes the own dead a score or more are of victim caught 11 second and third fifteen men are kno to have lost their lives and as anany more injured while a score or more are miss ng in des at the L berty bell mine near telluride lel luride pr addy the worst ca ta strophe of the kind in the west for many years chere were three separate sl des the v of tl e last being rescuers of tl e first party tl e rescuers were driven off tl e mounta n by the drecun ing avalanches of sno v and the wounded miners if any tl ere be left alive were necessarily abandoned to their fate under tl e snow friday morn ng a blizzard set in and th s started the first avalanche wl ich c away the bu adins including the houses where tl e miners slept of the liberty bell m ne it was nearly noon before a rescue party including pi ys clans reached the scene tl ey had uncovered seven dead bodies and e wounded when the second slide occurred the whole party was buried and at least four men killed in the second sl de the rescuers then aeterna ned a retreat was in order to save their lives but they had gone only a short d laface eneli a th rd avalanche overtook tl e u kill ng three of the party outright chere maybe many oti ers dead under the snow there is no way of arriving at the number who caught tl e liberty bell is located about a nile and three quarters north of tel lunde and has an abtil ie of about 12 feet at the mouth 0 tl e tunnel more than 20 men a e employed eup loyed in the mine and both day an in ht shifts are boil cd the bu id of the mine occupy a bench on the mounta n aide and were erect 1 n a location that was supposed to be pi elected from snow slides by abile it was thought would coune of any avalanches that n 11 be bartel the vast accumulation f low will in the past two weeks however gave the slide such volume that nothing could stay its progress 1 it reached tho bottom of the |
