| Show six men meet death in a at the mining camp of alta awful avalanche came down upon the men as they were sleeping sweeping away the houses and burying the victims beneath twenty ave feet of snow sandy utah after many hours of toil on the part of a large band of alta miners the bodies of the six victims who suffered death in the aw 1 at the camp saturday morning were uncovered and sunday afternoon brought to sandy where they lie in the city hall awaiting fu j aeral arrangements by friends and relatives following are the jamesj agea and tar as has been tamed the place of residences of the dead bennett albert aged 25 came from santaquin San utah history un known claybourne george aged 30 mother reel deal in salt lake erica son john aged 26 riverton salt lake county gray john aged 55 tt ranger from california jerry aged 45 miner park city powell william aged 18 sandy boarding house keeper powell was in charge of the board ing house conducted in the camp by mrs john mangon of sindy his mother gray was a miner employed by the columbus consolidated mining company the remaining victim were who had come to tha camp beeking work in the dead of night while all the victims were adeep the avalanche rushed down the mountain side with out a moment s warning sweeping away the boarding house referred to and the saloon of rose armburst the adjoining building gray and mur phy were sleeping in the saloon the other victims were in their bunka at the boarding house armburst the proprietor of the sa loon lee herrick and john baker were sleeping in that portion of the baloon which escaped the heaviest portion of the slide and by some reak of chance they escaped death Hl though they were hurled in from three to six feet of snow armburst says that when he was awakened ue found himself out of his bed and entombed in a drift was the first tu recover himself although clad in nothing but bia night shirt without even a pair ol 01 as protection from the ley armburst Arm buret probed the snow un til he found lee and baker who though burled were still alive and insisted them in digging their wai put then these three brave men with only their night garments to pro elect lect them from the storm which at that hour 2 clock saturday morn ing was raging fiercely worked toi hours in an effort to locate the other victims all suffered greatly and bakers feet were badly frozen although the slide which came from the hill on the ouan side of the canyon had traveled near ly halt a mile before finding its vie alm it seemed to spend it force at the point where the g were truck a the avalanche did not go farther the flat the rescuing force began work at 7 clock and shortly before noon saturday the last victim had been uncovered the bodies being burled from ten to twenty five feet in the hard packed snow |
