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Show ENTOMBEDBY SLIDE FIFTY MEN KILLED BY AN AVALANCHE AVA-LANCHE WHILE AT WORK ON CANADIAN PACIFIC TRACK. Were Engaged In Clearing Traoks From Previous Slide When Larger Slide Came Down and Swept Them Into Canyon Below. Vancouvor, B. C Fifty men who wore ongagod In clearing the Canadian Pacific tracks in Rogers Pass, at tho summit of tho Selkirk rango, wore entombed en-tombed by nn avalancho Saturday morning. Fourteen others Injured havo been taken to tho hospitnl. Tho men were a working crow engaged en-gaged In clearing awny a smnll slldo which had como down early the previous pre-vious evening. They wero working a rotary cnglno ovor it when a larger slide camo down nnd carried them to their death In tho canyon below. At first It was believed that all of tho hundred men engaged wero killed, but during tho early morning It was found that many had oscapod, and tho death list is now placed In tho vicinity of fifty. Tho nccldent occurred near a snowshed ono mllo west of Rogers' pass and at tho actual summit of the Solklrks. Sevcnty-fivo por cont of the dead woro whlto men, the remainder Japanese. Conductor Duckloy nnd Engineer En-gineer Phillips of tho work train headed head-ed by a rotary snow plow wero killed. |