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Show rcamp of the Carn-i.ir.te Vi'ii: MTn'.ng1 crmpan ntar ike -,5" i.ridje at Mnl-J Mnl-J Irn, IdAuO. fb'.iit noon Sunday. Tbreo miners are reported dead; GU3 B KRC LUNG. JOHN HOLM. TRICK HOLM, n The; Ixvfy . f , G i Bere'nr.d h-A1 "ivej reovcrr.!. : ,fnte n are' no"" known to bo d"ad In the aalanrti that tiearly obl!tra'ed the towns ot M.ae and Burke Idaho laci right and this morning and tic death lis: t!'I probably b- largely increased as the rercuers penetrate the debris. Tb flrht againsttlme and cold has been v.ed bravely and persistently by i the little army of men who are hoping hop-ing to find un.lr tbe heaps of ruin i.i ihe raJn"3 seme wfo hac c-taped c-taped dea'h. Although tho greatest of difficult le,? have thrown discouragement discour-agement In their paths the?" men have dug ami torn nnd strained fra.v' tie-ally for more than 21 hours, pausing paus-ing scarcely to varm their numbed hod;? before ngaSn seizing their t hovels nnd returning to their work. Old men, young boys and men of the cloth have Joined their efforts with those of the nble bodied In the common com-mon cause. Mace is situated on the creek bed and the mountains rise on either tide of the canyon. The f.lopes have been well denuded of tri-es by tbe mine. The main body of the avalanche, which started fro:n the top of Custer mountain, passed beyond the town nnd, striking the opposite slope wltb terrific fore, rushed up the mountainside. The caoyon Is filled up to a depth of froia 10 t 50 feet. Second Slide Follows. The damage to tbo town was done by an offshol off from Ibe mnh) slide which carried nway the construction con-struction train on the track ,in it ; dunged In'o the ravine. aDd shooting up the other side, demolished the houses in its path, stopping a short distance beycn.l tho Pascoo home. The boarding house of the Standard mine, where about 30i miners were i-leeplng. was missed by only about 120 feet. The first slide was that which wiped nut almost all of the lown of Mace, five miles up the canyon from here. This catastrophe occurred at 10-jr. Sunday night, while ;ill (be i population except the men on the night shift In the Standard and In the other mines in the locality were sleeping. The Burke avalanche occurred oc-curred at 5;3o this morning. Foreman a Hero. That more lives were not lost st Burke Is due. to tho presence of mind of Seaman Rowe, foreman of tho Hecla mine. Realizing tho danger which threatened the sleeping famine? fami-ne? a mile further up ihe utream. h? sent Bert Clement on lo Burke to rouse the Inhabitants nod urge them to seek safety. ; By a sad rs price of fate four of those who lest their lives at Burke v. ere members of tho rescue party which has been at work all night at Mace. They wero David Shop-perd. Shop-perd. Dick Rlchot, Wm Painter and James Rogers. These men wero among tho first to respond to tho call for succor, when the news of th$ Mace disaster reached Burke. They ptocurej tools and hurried to the scene of the accident where they Joined their efforts with the oth?rs and, stormed the mass of Ice nod e;;rfn which blocked the canyon A Utile after 3 o'clock helng Impressed with the same idea as Howe, thai the town of Burke was in imminent dr.ngT of being is!ted wUh a similar catastrophe at any moment, they started back to aid In getting the. womeu and children out of fhe path cf the danger. They arrived at Burke, just intime to be caught in the slije there. Woman Is Rescued. Among tjio last to be taken out of the snow 'alive at Mac? was Mre. George He..per, an old woman who lived em the outskirts of the town. She was burled under the snow K, foet. and li 'tod; four hours of tb hardest work to get her mil She haj suffered from the cold, but was not badly injured. v Many strange thoughts coursed through my mind while I lav buried In tho snowslide for more than two hours at the Missoula Copper mine." said R. J. McLeod of Mullin. wlu with his son, John A. McLeud. w.is rescued from his perilous position after only a force of men had shoveled shov-eled for soveral bours. ; "Ac the lime the slide occurred I was sleeping in a small bunk room jut off the compressor room. My rin was on shift on the compressor. Suddenly I was aroused from sleep by my sen running into the bunk retoni crying, 'papa papa.'" The slide struck th,o , building with great force and we were hurled under a whirling mass of snow and timbers. "My son was knocked upon the bed and lay upon me. With the exception ex-ception of my right hand 1 was un-r.ble un-r.ble to more. I worked Ibis free and managed to scrp.pe- nway sufficient riK'W to give us air." . The Flido Is approximately 3,000 feet long and -save for a few places la packed as solid as Ice. Tonight ii cold wind is sweeping tbe canyon end Impeding those who are working hcroclally In the hope that a fev. more lives may be saved. Those who have Journeyed from Wallace to .Mace and Burke tars that the dead probably never will be known accurately a tl'e huge slide, cau never he entirety removed. A linger sticking above the surface of the snow was responsible for saving sav-ing the life of Mrs. George Gibson, who was buried in the slide at Mace. For more tlnn an hour the woman lny burled with only a linger protruding protrud-ing above the snow. Rescuers stumbled stum-bled over the rough ground by tha ll;;ht rf lanterns, saw the finger and dug her out with great difficulty. She was hnlf smothered and almost frozen when rescued. Her condition is serious. se-rious. Tonight a survey of the Miuation ,v Mace shows that 12 dead bodies have been recovered and that 37 portions por-tions are injured :s a result of the s'ide while others are belCv.'d to b" boried under ta' snow aid debris. At Butko .Mr, and Mrs. Al Newman and James Rogers were among tbo eruight Jn the early morning iivn-laneho. iivn-laneho. They were rescued but are nut expected to live. Rogers was buried eight, hours before being rescued. THIRD TOWN WIPED GUI BY AVALANCHE Spokane. Wash., Feb. 'JS. It Is learned today that a third aralanch In. ade'ltion to thoe at Maoo and Burke, Idaho, destroyed tho mining |