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Show HUNDREDS- OF MINfRS -WORKING' TO DIG THE DEAD -AND INJURED OUT. OFpStJDES Six Avalanches Rave Dealt Death and Dis fraction to Towns of the Coeur d'AIene in Idaho-"31 Bodies Recovered I various small offices. $750,0f". Total, .?2,000,0iio. Spokane, Morca 1. Working desperately des-perately end almoFt exhausted, hundred? hun-dred? of miners ire today trying to gIj from parked i.e. mow and wreckage wreck-age the dead aud mjaed thought to 1h; burled In tix Idaho avalanches which have dealt drain and dewl ruction ruc-tion In the last two days. The daM to.'J, which Included nineteen yestcr-f'ay, yestcr-f'ay, l.as reached tli.r'.y-oneioday. an. I It is believed more 'ead will be fuind J" the Fplintered carlm? which housed the families of th" rilncra. At Mace, whero ihe first slid? oc-cUnvc. oc-cUnvc. eleven are known to be de.il or.d eight are hajly Injured Sweeping down th? mountain bide, tl'O gitat mass of snow and earth nuh:d tho cabins and smill houses HVo eggfhells, burying the occupants in a tangled mass of logs, snow and earth. Not until the sun strikes the mountain moun-tain of f-now and wears It a.vay will ll'.e list of known dci 1 be ronip'et. So far thirty men, women and rhil-C" rhil-C" ren have been rescued" from Ihe Tince slide by the heroic miners, and, J-" human effort can accomplish anything, any-thing, it Is believed those still allvo w III bo rescued. At. Burke, the scene of tho second , slido, five lives wero lost and two rtisnns were badly Injured. Such is ' the chaotic condition of tho small mln. J l:ig town, however, that the list is not , hnlf complete. At Carbonate Hill a third tdlde swept two persons to death and Injured In-jured half a dozen others. It Is uot known how many more are beneath tho wreckage. The Carbonate Hill tilde was not so great in extent aa o'.hers in Ihe Couer d'AIene district, bit Us force was so great that it swept everything before it. Jamos Rogers, after -working desperately des-perately for tevernl houra aiding the workers to extricate himself from the snow, whs released, but his Injuries csuscd. hl.d'u-u few -hnurw -after ho was taken from the tnow, .A fourth slldf. a. the North Frank. l!n mine, near Burke, played a peculiar pecu-liar 'freak, when it descended upon the bunk bouse of the miners. Two men were sleeping In one room of the bunk house and the front part of the log st met ure was empty. The whole building was torn to KpHuters, save one room. In which the iwo men wero sic. ping, and was swept down the. mountain sldo and into the gulch below. be-low. Wallace, Idaho, March 1. Arrangements Arrange-ments have been completed for a public pub-lic funeral at 2:30 p. m. today for tho vlctlmi of the snowslldcs Biibtness will be suspended at 1 o'clock and the mining town will turn out in force to attend the public services at the WaJ lace theater. Refugees from the stricken camp are being cared for by Ihe business men and their families, and those who are able to be removed are being hurried hur-ried to Ihe Sisters' hospital, where n largo force of physicians aud nurses are on hand. |