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Show Ti LIVES LOST M A SNOWSLfDE Salt Lake, March 9. The snow cov. orcd hillsides of Big Cottonwood canyon can-yon added twp victims Thursdav morning to the long list of those who have lost their lives in snowslldes In the canyonB of the Wasatch mountains. moun-tains. Gus Branborg of 969" West Fifth South street aud Niels Matsen of 2122 South Thirteenth street, employes em-ployes of the Tar Baby mine in the Bouth fork of the Big Cottonwood, were caught in nu aalanche froni a hill abovo the mine and wore smothered smoth-ered to death beneath tons of the fleecy moisture. There was but ono eyo-wilness to the catastrophe. Gus Peterson, an omployo of the same mine, waB Jn tho tunnel when Branborg and Mat-Ben Mat-Ben started up tho hillBide for tho purpose of cutting timber. Tho hill is a comparatively small ono, less 'hail 500 ' feet in hqlgbt. and although ' ttio 8idcB were covered with tinow, TtHe men anticlpatednb danger Peterson returned to the. tunnel and when "'ho again emerged a few moments later he saw his two companions near the i summit I Suddenly and without warning (he mass of snow coating the hlllsldo began be-gan to move and Peterson dashed fo:; the safety of the tunnel's mouth. Ho made the goal In safety and a mo-mont mo-mont later the mass oi snow crashed into the canyon Tho "unfortunate mon were buried beneath the mass. Without losing a moment Peterson dashed for the camp of the Cardiff mine, a short distance away, and gavo the alarm. j The entire force of miners at the t Cardiff responded and attacked tho mass of snow The body of Matflen was soon found, a foot protruding from the snow A short time later Bran- j borg's "body was found. Life was extinct, ex-tinct, although no wound was fountj ' on either body Death Iriboth cases had come from suffocation In the Bnow The bodies were brought to town yesterday and are at S M. Tnylor's undertaking establishment awaiting arrangements for the funerals Gus Branborg, one of the accident, t victims, is a native of Sweden, where he was born in 1S67 He came to Utah in 18S2 and with his brother, John Branborg, has been engaged for a quarter of a century in mining work, In Big Cottonwood canyon. - |