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Show Slides Claim Four Victims at Price Price The toll of life taken in this section by snowslides vaa increased to four by a -monster slide that swept the mountainside for a half mile this side of Indian summit on the Castle-gate-Duchesne road and buried three government mall trucks, a car of the Dodge stage line and a privately owned own-ed coupe. John E. Stevenes, 4S, of Price, wras dead when his body was recovered by rescuers from the heap of wrecked machines and debris. The body was brought to the Wallace & Harmon mortuary. Between thirty and forty men were caught in the avalanche, av-alanche, which came shortly after 3 o'clock. The slide accurred three and one-half miles above Grant station on this side of the summit at a poinl known as the "Twelve per cent" turn, The little caravan of automobiles, with its two score of workers, had battled its way up the long dugway to this place by the middle of the afternoon, when the entrie blanket of snow covering cover-ing the section of the mountain above them moved. |