Show k Er ErAt Entombs At Bingham Bing Canyon 30 39 KNOWN DEAD nl J D 21 31 MISSING ANI AND 13 18 INJURED IN ONE ONI OF OP TIlE THE WORST WORST- CALAMITIES IN HISTORY OF OP TIlE THE STATE Seventeen houses and a three- three story boarding hou house e housing about I people were swept from their foundations and buried beneath thousands of tons of snow and debris debris deb- deb ris Iris Mn Sin Bingham Canyon Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- da day r morning The heaviest toll of life was taken taken taken tak tak- en when tho slide which had started started started start start- ed from the top of at what Is known as m Sap gulch two miles distant terminated in the main Bingham canyon after making matchwood of I the three story McDonald boardinghouse boarding boardinghouse house in which more moro than sixty persons persons persons per per- sons mostly miners miner Were overe trapped In their rooms The suddenness of the crash of the tho avalanche Is believed believed believed be be- to have snuffed out the lives of many of these men without any warning The Tho o breaking out of fire fre frein in the ruins of the boarding house horror to the and many of the tho bodies were badly burned before belore rescuers extinguish extinguish extinguish ex ex- ex- ex the flames Work was suspended In the Utah- Utah Apex and the Utah-Delaware Utah mines I and about two hundred men started i and the dead from the ruins I Alta Isolated by i The mining camp of Alta has been isolated by in Little Cottonwood Cottonwood Cot- Cot canyon Telephone lines lines Jines were torn down and other property wrecked by the onrushing wall mall all of snow v but residents of the camp camp escaped uninjured Reports from the mining district were to the effect that a slide had hit the buildings building of the Alta Merger Merger Merger Mer Mer- ger Mines Minoo company but the extent of the damage was unknown The buildings were not occupied and no loss of life lite is expected there Alta AHa is known as tho the most treacherous treacherous treacherous erous sno district In the state In the entire town was wiped out with a heavy loss of life liCe During various thaw seasons since then a number of lives have been taken by bythe bythe bythe the slides |