| Show 15 Dead Taken From Wreckage Fifty Missing ing Two Boarding Houses Methodist Church and Several Homes Crushed When Slide Sweeps Down Moun Moun- Mountain Mountain tam tain Side in Highland Boy District of Bingham Can Can- Canyon Canyon yon Fire Adds to Horror of Catastrophe ther fIFTEEN persons are known to have been killed and the I bodies of 50 more are believed to be buried in the ruins of eight buildings demolished by a snow slide at Bingham Can Canyon yon early today toda according to Associated Press and special dispatches reaching The Standard Examiner The bodies of 15 victims had been taken from frem the he debris at noon noon Hundreds of workers are put put- putting putting put putting ting forth every effort to rescue victims who may have been In- In Injured injured In Injured and are still alive e In the mass The rhe slide which descended on the the buildings at 3 P o'clock this morning occurred in what Is known as Sap a small email side aide canyon off oft Carrs Carr's Fork and near the tho Highland Boy mining district Added to the horror of the slide Itself fire broke out In the debris of the smashed buildings as the result of overturned stoves It was feared by the workers that many persons caught In the crash but not killed may have perished In the flames flame which followed The heavy snowfall of the the- past put 24 hours also Is 18 hampering rescue oper operations S Included In the structures de- de demolished demolished de demolished by the slide are five dwellings two boarding houses and a Methodist l church The disaster occurred when thousands of tons of material from the Highland Boy dump mixed with an avalanche of snow rocks and trees crashed down the steep canyon wall According to meager details received In Ogden the slide was wag started l by a slipping clipping of the mine dump after a heavy snow snow- snowfall snowfall tall snow fall The moving waste walle from the mine quickly gathered momentum gathering and starting Immense quantities of ot heavy snow sno as It descended the side of the canyon It we was Wa accompanied by a a terrific roar after gaining momentum but the warning came too late for score of persons to escape from tile the buildings In the bottom of the gulch Many of the victims victim who were either killed Instantly or died from Irom Injuries beneath the mass were miners who ho had come come off the night shift shUt and gone to bed bedIn bedin bedIn In the two boarding houses There had been beel no ho authentic list of the dead and Injured compiled by the authorities at Bingham SITUATION DESCRIBED The Reverend Lester J lagen Fagen pastor of the First Methodist church In Ogden recently was pastor of the Methodist church In Bingham He said today the Church destroyed In the slide Ude Is not the principal Methodist edi edifice edi- edi edifice fice lice in the district but Is I a branch church In the Highland Boy district about three miles from lower Bingham m The canyon has rather steep sides at the point where here the slide took place the minister said s wita I many small home homes bomea on the hlll- hlll hlll-eldes hlll sides eldes i iMen Men employed In the Highland Boy mine the Utah Metals Metal and others live In the boarding houses near the church which were In Continued Continue On Page Two Tho MANY DEAD IN IN- BINGHAM SLIDE Continued From Pane Page Oner One On the tb path of ot the Illde lido LITTLE nOPE HOPE HELD SALT LAKE LARE CITY Feb 17 17 By The Th Associated Pre Press Press-At Press s-At s I noon 15 bodies had been taken from from- the th ruin ruins of several build build Ints Ings the th Methodist church which were burled under the snow slide slid In Sap gulch In inthe the tho Highland Boy mining district near Mar Bingham BIneham 18 It miles mile south south- southwest southwest west south west of here this morning Estimates Estimate of ot those entombed In Inthe inthe the avalanche of snow now rock and brush that slid lid down the th moun moun- mountain mountain tain tam tide side ran range rani go between 10 EO and ano Little LIttI hope hop 1 Is II held h Id out for their rescue alive Fire burning In the th buildings which were ere ter crushed under hun hun- hunI hundreds hundreds I of tons of debris Imperiled tho those e who may have hav escaped tn- tn ln in I slant tant death when their thell homes were crushed No attempt has ha been made mad to IdentifY the th dead As All fast as u a body Is la dug due from the th rocks rock and snow now It Is placed on a small hand sled and taken to the th morgue In BIngham proper pro er several mil miles down the th narrow canyon which is II completely closed at the th ha scene c n of the slide MAKES lL LO LONG G SLIDE Rescue parties are ar working from each side of the tho slide elide The Th heavIest heaviest iest lost loss of life lite i Is expected at tM th J T r McDonalds McDonald and end Willis William Rimby's boarding houses housel which were completely covered by the snow The Th snow snows now which slid Ild one and one half mite miles down the th moun moun- mountain mountain tain thin lodged near the th Utah Dela war Utah ware wins mine In Sap gulch An emergency hospital wa was be- be be l ing erected at Bingham proper and s-nd the th entire force fore of doctors and nurses nurse blows avails Available waa on hand Work II I proceeding rapidly but litle hope hop Is I held hId out for 80 SO or mOre entombed |
