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Show FOUR BURIED I BY SNOWSLiE DENVER. Colo.. Feb. 20 Four em- ployes of the ticnvcr and Salt Lake railroad wore killed when a snowslido struck an engine belonging to that road near Loop. Colo., early Sunday niornln;?. The men were swept down a canyon 700 feet deep Their bodies have not yet been recovered Those killed were Paul Paulson of Denver, assistant roadmaster of the railroad. William Mongarvis. a section laborer and George Karnabas, a section sec-tion laborer. A. S. Cane and Thomas Conway, en-pinker en-pinker '.nd fireman respectively of thf engine, escaped without serious injuries injur-ies and were taken to their homes in Tabernash. Attending physicians said they would recover. The entfiri"- had helped an castbound train over the continental divide and had just started bafk to Tabernash. Kirht miles west of Corona. Colo., tho station on the continental divide, the engine ran out of water as u result of the hard work of bucking snow that had been Piled on the tracks by previous prev-ious slides. The engine waa stopped and tW four men who later were killed kill-ed ot but to shovel snow Into the tank ; Tho engineer and fireman got Inside j the tank to distribute the snow and it was to this that railroad officials attribute at-tribute their escape. The slidr swept tho engine from the tracks and into the canyon Tho en-1 en-1 ginc turned over twice on the way i down, hut tlm men inside were protected protect-ed by the walla of the tank- Officials here said that it was prob-1 prob-1 able neither the bodies nor the en-gine en-gine could be recovered before spring The road is commonly called the Mof-, I fat. oo |