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Show sinmeiei mil n shomh wsumiih ,uiipi" jpm-m (ojiUUM(,MI '' '" " 11 r I i Seventeen Mincrf KJIlcd in Sit cccssio n oj Snohu slide st Fevint.'cii meu were killed In a aerlea of anowalldea which occurred In the Immediate vicinity of the Liberty Hell mine on Smuggler Mountain, three and a half uillea north of Tel-lurlde, Tel-lurlde, ( olo No less than lour distinct slides occurred, oc-curred, each one Helming two or more victims. The flut slide occurred nt 7:30 o'clock In the morning and carried car-ried away the boarding and bunk housea and the tratnhouse of tho mine. The alhle funic without warning. The threo Inrcc buildings were carried down the steep mountain side a distance dis-tance of 2.0IH1 feet and ground lo splinters, splin-ters, nut a honnl being left Intact. The enow and ilehrls pile I In the bottom of the canyon twenty-five feet deep. Thoee who teapcd the slide at once btK4u Hie work of rcarutug their Icea fortiiunle couiimnlona. A doxeti or morn were taken out bIIvo, some of them badly Injured, however. Shortly after noon, while the work MIX s'llnl. Tl tilers were more or lcli'j'it.,t r-nrly nil the bnlldlnea of the Libert' Lib-ert' "'"II tnl'ic weie tarried down by tttfsl"J''- One wing of the avaluiu ie rh(t 1.T'"1 feet tonus the rnnvon. tit I -lni'ii t, k me on the opposite nioun-tal" nioun-tal" )y thlnl slide i nine down at 3 o'clock. nb.it one mile below the Liberty Hell lanes, and I, us von Klntel. John Pow-oJ'ainl Pow-oJ'ainl P.iul Dulprn, who were mi their Hi tu the nr. mi, were swept away. jihorily afterwanl the fourth allde oK'it a p.trty gotnu from TcllurlJe. Uliltl two. pile bi;l,h,,r, f , m orcnplfd dVnrh i.n the mountain side, nn.l h rc em ted In a lui ulluii that win Jl""il lo he pruteitel from snow-(iJe. snow-(iJe. ),) s riilue which It was thought ftllil divert the rnurse of any ava-(av'hs ava-(av'hs thai might in. tiiried. The vast I airumulatlon of snow within the last t" ks. however, gnve the allde 'lliene are the inountuln side lodging -houej of the men of the Liberty Hell mine at Tclliirldc. Colo., which were cartl away by the great anowallile while tin y were full of men. Seventeen sen were burled licneith the first lush of enow and Ice which look the hoiiHi ami by the succeeding snow-slides, snow-slides, which caught the reaching parties. of digging out bodies was going on, the s ml slide sane down aluioat In the track of the llrst. The influutiiln-aldn influutiiln-aldn Is steep and the dcercnt of the I anow muea waa so swift that twenty-four twenty-four of tho rescuers were caught, two in I a volume thnt nothing could atny Its Kurrcsa until It reached tho bot-ton bot-ton of the canyon. Il six months the death loss by mine sccttcnta In thia vicinity has aggregated aggregat-ed VI. |