Coalville Times | 1910-03-11 | Page 2 | Entombed by Slide

ENTOMBED BY SLIDE rirry men killed by an ava- LANCHE WHILE AT WORK ON CANADIAN PACIFIC TRACK. j I Ware Engaged In Clearing Tracks I From Previous Slide When Larger slide Came Down and Swept Them Into Canyon Below. Vniiroiiter. II C-Fifty men ho were eiiKHited In clearing the t'anaillHn 1 Pai Ifle trarkn In lloseis l'nn. at the i siiinnilt of the Selkirk rani;, were en-tomici en-tomici by an avulanch Haturilay i morning- Fmirieen oth'rs Injured 1 huvn I n taken lo the hui-plinl. The nun were a working crew en gaged In rlesrlng am ay a small slid which bad com down early th pre Hons evening. They went winking a rotary engine over It when a larger slid rame down and curried theui lo their ib-ath In th canyon to-low. At firs- It wan believed thai nil of the hiiiiilred men engage were killed. j but dm tug the early morning It wan found that many had enrapeil. and the j deaih lint In now placed In the vicinity of fifty. The accident occurred near a nnownhed one tnlln west of lingers' pans and at Ihe actual summit of the ! Helkliks. Herein y five cr cent of th dead were whit men, th remalndet Japanese. Conductor lluckley and F.n glueer Phillips of th woik train headed head-ed by a rotary snow plow were killed