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Show I EIGHT MEN ARE BURIED ALIVE By III AVALANCHE Were Caught by Mammoth Slide o Snow and Four Were Dead Before Be-fore Their Comrades Could Dig Them Out. IUclllnghnin, Wash. Eight minors wero hurled allvo In nn avalancho of snow nt tho Drlttanln mlnu on Howo sound, forty nillus north of Vancouver. Four wcro taken out dead; four wero rescued. Two Japanese wero In tho group, nud ono wait killed. Tho men had heeu working In tho logging camp owned by tho Copper company, securing mnterlal to timber tho mine. About I) o'clock n storm over the mountain nnd tha workmen work-men started down tho Incllno to the mine. They had not proceeded far when n hugo ninss of snow swept tho side of tho hill, burying tho men In Its path. Follow workmen rushed Instantly to tho sceno nud began digging out their comrades. Tho first mnn taken out was nllve, but unconscious. Tho rescue pnrty noxt caught sight of a pair ol feet spread npnrt nud sticking up out of tho snow. Tho men worked us fast ns possible, but for Eomo tlmo It was not known how many men had ben covered by tho slide. Several hours had elapsed before be-fore last body was rccovorod. Tho rescued Japanese who wns tho last of tho men to ho brought out, had been burled for nlmost nn hour under thirty foot of snow. Nono of tho rescued men, It Is believed, be-lieved, will dio as a result of tho accident. |
