| Show TWO TRAINS BURIED AWFUL DISASTER AT SUMMIT OF CASCADE MOUNTAINS IN STATE OF washington twentythree twenty three person persons known to have lct lost their llvell live twenty five are ara mining missing and a score injured a as result of Nua avalanche lanche clarett Cv arett wash twenty three per sona are known to be dad doad are missing and a score are la in lured aa a result of the avalanche which swept down the mountain aide side above wellington at the west portal of the cascade tunnel early tuesday morning and brushed two great creat north cm ern trains one the westbound kun kano express and the other aa over land malt mail t din tin off the narrow ledge of the high line hurling rheid to the bottom of the canyon feet below coupled to the spokane express was superintendent J it 0 nellie neill 9 private car this was as carried over inver the prec pice plea with the rest of the train three locomotives locomotive so four powerful electric motors used to haul trains through the cascade tunnel the depot at wel tort and a water tank also were carried away by the slide and burled buried under tons of debris the wrecked trains lie piled on top of each other feet below the eld aid ing upon which chev they stood when the avalanche swept over them the can cars were ere crushed into kindling w wood and no one on the tiala escaped escape d injury the slide filled the shelf upon which the tracks at wellington are laid and rolled over the edge into the valley the danger from slides Is not over warm warin weather in the mountains Is the snow and frequently an avalanche Is heard beard thundering down tho the mountain side not far from the scene of the disaster a slide four miles lone rushed down into the can yon tuesday afternoon the snow Is eighteen feet on the level and in the canyon it Is piled up in drifts more than fifty feet deep most of the dead are believed to have been passengers on the west bound great northern express bound from spokane to seattle and which has been stalled in the mountain for five day days they were asleep when the elate 11 came the other train was the transcontinental fact fast mall mail which car ried no passengers the two trains were in chart of conductors book and pettit both ot of everett the fate of the train crews ie Is not known superintendent 0 nelll neill waa was not in his car at the time of the slide and escaped injury but it Is 1 thought bis his private secretary A D longcoy Iorg Lor coy gcoy Is dead aa an soon aa as word of the disaster reached everett the great northern Olvis divisional lonal point milea miles west went a res cue train of physicians and was started for or the scene thie this aaa fol owed lowed by a second saeng d r rescue acue iralu carry ing undertakers wrecking outfit outfits an and laborers |
