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Show KIO SOLDIERS EHH During Terrific Snow Storm and Blizzard Monday Night Two Soldiers Guarding Railroad Tunnel Have .Narrow Escape When Snow Slide and Wind Hurls Cabin Down Mountain Side One Man Tumbles Several Hundred Feet to Near Foot of Mountain Were Treated at Straup Hospital and Later Tak-v Tak-v . en to Fort Douglass. ' ; " v i ' Shortly before midnight Monday during the most terrific snow storm j and blizzard that has visited Bingham in several years, when the wind blew a hurricane through the narrow mountain moun-tain defiles and the snow fell in blinding gusts, two soldiers . guarding the Bingham & Garfield Railway Tunnel Tun-nel No. 2, were swept from their moorings moor-ings by an avalanche which came down the gulch, carrying away their cabin and hurling one of the men over 900 feet down the mountain side, seriously ser-iously injuring one and slightly wounding the other. Privates Harry Albert and Carl Rhodes, both members of the 25th Co. California Coast Artillery, who are at present engaged in guarding the property prop-erty of the Bingham and Garfield railway rail-way company at Bingham, were at post number two, situated near the Old Yampa smelter in Bingham, Just at the lower end of the Markham tun- ' nel, when at 12 o'clock Just as they were changing guard, they were hurled hurl-ed over the side of the mountain by a snowsllde, started they know not how. ' P Private Harry Albert was rolled down the mountain to the foot, near the Copperfield Coal company's coal yard. He immediately tried to climb back up the side of the mountain, but weakened by the cold and exposure he was unable to do so, so he began , to yell for help. Some of the residents ; heard him and immediately went out '.--f.o help him look for his comrade, j About this time Private Dowllng and I , two friends, who were on their way i .home, mslied to-the-&cene and after V few minutes were successful in locaf-tfi'- ing the, helpless and nearly rofen form of the unfortunate soldier. Prl-vate Prl-vate Dowllng pulled him out and a team was rushed to the Bcene of the acoident and the two frozen and wounded men were rushed to the Straup hospital, where after hours of hard work Dr. F. E. Straup was successful suc-cessful in saving their lives. A Albert did not suffer much from the I . cold, but received some painful but not serious wounds and many bruises. He received deep and painful wounds on the arms, the left hip and a slight scalp wound. (Rhodes, the soldier who was not on guard at the time, was in the shack getting warm after having been on guard for a considerable length of time. (He was suddenly aroused by Albert Al-bert opening the door and then immediately im-mediately there followed one of those i wild blasts of wind, sleet and snow that filled the shack full of flying snow and then they were startled by feel-in feel-in r their shelter belne bodilv lifted and thrown over the mountain side. Rhodes received nothing but a few bruises, but was recued In an unconscious uncon-scious condition, made so by the terrific ter-rific cold and the wind. Rhodes was Inside and so did not have on his overcoat, over-coat, and the sudden change from a warm room to the deep snow and the penetrating cold was too much for his nerves. He was suffering a collapse when removed to the hospital, he Is now suffering from what is known as demore of the lungs Dr. Straup reports re-ports that the man was nearly dead from exposure when he started to work upon htm. But the skill and long A experience the doctor had him in good shape and he was conscious after four j hours, A few more minutes in that snow bank would have meant death ' for him, but luckily his hand was protruding pro-truding a ifew inches above the surface and that aided Dowllng and his associates asso-ciates in finding him. iPatrolman Phil Culletln was also on the Job as soon as he found out about the accident. The patrolman was there in time to help pull the man out of the snow, and great praise is due him for his sneed in reaching the scene of the accident as he did only a few minutes behind the foremost. j Tuesday the soldier boys were re- moved to the fort hospital at Fort Douglass. The only dangerous possl-! bility is that Rhodes may contract pneumonia. If this should happen there would be small chance for his recovery, as it is if he is well cared for he will recover and be back in Bingham in a short time. Albert will j be released from the hospital In a i few days, as soon as his wounds are healed enough to enable him to walk. The California Coast Artillery boys that are guarding the property of the . Bingham and Garfield Railway Com- Y- pany here In iBIngh&m are only a small detachment of the main company, which is also guarding the Utah Copper Cop-per Company's property at Garfield snd Magna, and are also stationed at Tooele. Last Tuesday the detachment was moved to Magna and a new squad was sent to TMngham, The two men who were hurt were of the new squad j and two of the boy who are well known around town. The names of the boys who are leavln" are, as follows: Ser geant I, barely. Corporal O. Jemm. (unl rrlvates Fotthoff, Marr, Crowley, Johnson, Johnstone, Dowllng, Wald, Greeiiberg, Lefkowlt. ilowsett, Russell, Rus-sell, Shelt. iSmit.l), Scully. Sullivan, Steiger and Frank Smith. The names I of the members of the new detach-Inient detach-Inient are as follows: Sergeant Coel-I Coel-I isschonn. Corporals Peterson and 'An-Iderson, 'An-Iderson, firf t class privates Krummel i 'and Umgfellow, and Privates Frank-! jlln. 'Booker, iDradner, Chllds. Consnnl, 'Cutler and Winhan. This crowd of I hoys are fine fellowa and are sure to ihcl'mve Hiid enjoy themselves. We ex-I ex-I tend our irr "Mings and wish them a ' happy sojourn in our community. |
