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Show FATHER, MOTHER AND TWO CHILDREN KILLED ALMOST INSTANTLY BY THE WORST SNOWSLIDE IN THE HISTORY HIS-TORY W BINGHAM. SLIDE OCCURRED ABOUT 4 O'CLOCK FRIDAY MORNING OF LAST WEEK. SEARCHING SEARCH-ING PARTY RECOVERS BODIES WITHIN FEW, HOURS AFTER SLIDE BUT TOO LATE TO SAVE THE LIVES. LITTLE DOG RESCUED UNHURT. ft k I p P X l i ' 4 j ; LEONARD WOOD. have resulted from a snowslide in this district for three years. In the slide three years ago William Sharp, an aged and crippled miner, was killed. This slide occurred about a half mile above Bingham. Eight years ago two men were killed in a slide in the district dis-trict Owing to the immense amount of show in the district, coupled with weather conditions, further slides are feared and every precaution against danger is being taken. The worst snowslide in the history of the camp occurred last Thursday ight in the upper end -of Highland Boy wheifthe entire family of Enoch " X., Parr, a shift boss at the Utah iMetals, met a tragic ending under many tons of snow and debris. . tV The slide started up near the ridge Of the mountain and swept down the -:tlde of the mountain, filling the gulch i. with over thirty feet of snow and ice , and crushing everything in its path. " The Parr home, which was a few rods above the mouth of the Bingham-New Haven tunnel and directly in the path ' of the slide, was crossed like an egg vv.hell and the entire family, consisting of Enoch M. Parr, his wife, Hilda, and the- two; sons,, Elmer, 14, and Harold, 4, were crushed and , suffocated to death. . Everett Studebaker antsht watch-.jnan watch-.jnan at the Bingham-New Haven, dis-..' dis-..' oovered the .slide about 1 o'clock Pri-. Pri-. 4ay mornins and gave the alarm. All the men availably, about eighty in all, began immediately to dig above where the Parr home had been. In the , course of about an hour a dog belong-. belong-. V ing to the family was uncovered from the snow nnhurt. This gave the work ri hopes that posilbty members" of e the family were still livlrg ad efforts jrere renewed. 8&rtljafVr o'clock the two boys were dug up. -Se oodles , were still warm and Harold was not quite dead yet but all effort to revive "Wa proved fruitless. Both hoys had died of suffocation. The parents were recovered a little after 10 o'clock In the other end of the house. . Their bodies were mutilated, Indicating that : tttey had met death by crushing. The ' face of a clock which was found in c the house was broken,! in by the snow and the clock had stepped at 3:30 a. m. Elmer had been seen down in Highland High-land Boy as late as 12 o'clock the evening before, so the slide evidently i eccurred between those hours. The snow was over thirty feet deep above the remains of the house, which was crushed Into kindling wood. A . rabbit kennel which stood at the lower I side of the house was not damaged and the rabbits were rescued unhurt The following is the story as published pub-lished in one of the Salt Lake papers: The dead are: ENOS M. PARR, 42 years of age. MRS. HILDA PARR, 39 years of age. ELMER PARR, 14 years of age. HAROLD" PARR, 4 years of age. The Parr cottage of three rooms was in the direct line of the avalanche Of snow, rock and debris, which swept down the mountain near, the mine of the Utah Metal and Tunnel company and it was covered to a depth of fully twenty feet. The slide, which covered a large area, occurred about 4 o'clock, as nearly as can be judged, but the fact that the Parr cottage was in its pathway path-way was not discovered until 6 o'clock. As soon as it was learned that Parr and his family had been engulfed by , the avalanche, a force of sixty men, under the leadership of Deputy Sheriff Oscar Fullmer, formed a rescue party and began the search for the bodies. After working vigorously for about two hours the body of Harold Parr , was reached. - The child's neck was broken and he was otherwise mangled and bruised. A few minutes later the searchers, cameupon the body of Elmer Parr, whose body gave evidence t that he. had met death from suffoca- Uon. The two boys had occupied a room ' at one end of the three-room cottage and there was one room between i them and the room occupied by Mr. ? and Mrs. Parr. Rescuers' Work Difficult i Owing to the wrecked condition of r the cottage, It took the rescuers fully an hour to reach the far room, where they discovered the bodies of Parr . and his wife. Parr's head rested upon ' his wife's breast and both were crushed and mangled. As soon as possible after the bodies had been taken from the wreckage they, were conveyed to an undertaking establishment in Bingham. Mr. Parr was shift boss at the mine of the Utah Metal and Tunnel company, com-pany, which position he had been a resident of the camp for four years, having come here from Denver, Colo. He made considerable money through leasing after his arrival in Bingham. He was energetic and courteous and was Immensely popular with all classes. He is survived by one brother, Samuel Parr, of Denver, who has . been notified of the tragedy, i Mrs. Parr is survived by her . mother, Mrs. Bilbertson, residing at Jennings, Kan., and a sister, Mrs. W. O. Tatmon, who resides at Oakland, Cal. ' First In Three Years. The deaths of the four members of the Parr family are the first that i f .- - i ;-. ti . , ..: I. |