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Show DETAILSOFDISASTER SECTION HAND GIVES GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF THE AVALANCHE AT WELLINGTON. Slide Which Swept Two Trains Into Canyon Occurred During Terriflo Thunderstorm, and Rescuers Had Dlffloulty In Getting Into Gulch. Wellington, Wash. Slow progress is being made by tho men engaged In excavating the bodies of tho victims of tho torrlblo snowslldo In which two trains wero Bwept from tho track, and with their loads of human freight sent hurling down to tho bottom of Death canyon. Rotary plowB and hun- ' dreds of men are working with fover-lsh fover-lsh energy, night nnd day, from poth sides of tho Cascades, but tho work seems terribly slow. Looking down from Wellington Into- i tho gorge whero tno wrecked trains ' and sixty dead aro burled, nothing Is to bo seen on tho surface of tho Bnow , except broken trees, the pilot of an j engine, portions of two electric mo- ( tors and fragments of a rotary plow. Coroner J. O. Snyder of King county, coun-ty, who estimates tho number of dead at more than a hundred, believes that all tho bodies will havo been recovered re-covered within a week. ' Tho bodies when found are lnthelr sleeping garments, and Identification. Is difficult, unless tho outer clothing Is near by. Ed Clark, a section hand, wHio participated par-ticipated In the early relief work at Wellington, gives a graphic account of his cxperlenco on the night when the two trains were swept over the chasm Into tho bed of tho canyon 200 feet below. Ho says: . "On that nlgnt, about forty of us, all Americans, wore asleep with our clothes on In tho bunkhouso just above Wellington. Suddenly I heard a nolso I can't describe and then Charlie Char-lie Anderson, the section boss, rushed In. " 'Boys, for God's sake, get up;' he shouted, and tho mon sprang up. Anderson salu that tho passenger trains and motors had been swopt out. 'Got out of this quick, mon, or you'll bo cleaned out.' With that ho ran out to tell others. "It was thundering and lightning when wo ran out Tho Hashes woro blinding and tho thunder kept up an awful racket. It was dark as pltcn A when tho lightning didn't blind us. Wo heard a faint moaning down the sulch and mado a break for it. Thoro were only two or three Httlo railroad lanterns for light. All around us wo could hear trees snapping nnd other slides tumbling down. Wo didn't know how big they wero," but wo stumbled and rolled down Into the gulley where wb could hear tho crloa. "Somo had grabocd up what axes thoro wero when they first ran out, and then tho lanterns showed a row of hands beckoning in every Httlo nolo and opening In tho coaches. Wo started chopping between the outstretched out-stretched hands and so began to tako them out. "Wo had worked hard all day' and wero pretty well played out, but we all set to work, each man for himself and none leading. vVo could hear passengers pas-sengers crying for wator. Somo wero crying for nothing nt all. Wo got somo -of them o.ijt allvo, but many died be-forp be-forp wo could got at thdm, although they wore ilvln'g-'.wlto'n wo reached the SPOt." ..- . ... ;.; j . |