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Show DEAD NUMBER EIGHTY-ESGSiT Horrors of the Avalanche Which Swept Away Two Passenger Trains on the Great Northern Increase a Particulars Are Received Rescue Parties Are in Constant Danger of Other Slides. ooooooooooooooooo o o O PROBABLY 100 KILLED. O o o O "Wellington, Wash , March 3. O O Twenty-eight bodies of ava-' O O lancho victims have been re O O covered. Sixty are missing O O whose names arc known, be- O O sides a number of laborers. O O Probably more than 100 per- O O sons were killed. AH In the O O ruins arc dead. O O O ooooooooooooooooo upon the snow. No attempt will bo made to bring them down the mountain moun-tain side. It is not unlikely the track will be operated from this side first, In which cane the dead and wounded will be taken to Spokane. Many of lb bodies are terribly mutilated. - Shortly before 2 o'clock Tuesday morning, when every one on the two side-tracked trains at Wellington were In bed, two part9 r.f the mountain side that towered above the trains Ivecame detached and, taking with It snow, trees, earth and rocks, the avalanche plunged Into the canyon. The trains were lifted as though they were trifles and the whole mass was piled In the bottom of the ravine several hundred teot below. Looking down today at the debris of, the avalanche, the cars are not In I th sight, being covered with fifty feet of enow, One glance at the iuiu explains why so many persons are missing, and give no hope that any of those burled are alive. The few men who arc working In tne snow accomplish little. It In not practlacble, If It were possible, to send an Briny of wreckers to Wellington, as food could not be supplied to them. When tf?o track Is opened the avalanche ava-lanche mass will be attacked by men equipped with machinery, and all the bodies will be recovered. '. v .' r All But One Mail Clerk Dead. ' Spokane, March 3 Definite advices received-'. by postal authorities bere teftvoj'no doubt of the death of all but Yrrie-tJf thenfihll -lerks on. the fast mall train that was burled by- a snow-tilde snow-tilde In the Cascades Tuesday morn-lnr. morn-lnr. Alfred B. HeViFell'B collar bone-was bone-was . fractured and one arm broken. The following. Spokane postal clerks are listed as deid: R. -C. BOGART, unmarried. LEE J. A HERN, unmarried. 15EO '' HOEFER, married. J. C 'TUCKER, married. CHARLES S..L. LADU. HIRAM TOWSLFY. . "two ScUtlo posttil clerks, ,Uhn P. Fox and Fred' Bonn, are listed ai kilted. Evorclt. Wash, March 3. Railroad men who have been at the scene of the Wellington avalanche say the rescue res-cue of any of iho persons reported inlssl would be a miracle, and that all are almost certainly dead, making the total eighty-four ' The report that another slide had descended upon the workers Is discredited dis-credited here, where word would be received If such ai accident had occurred. oc-curred. The difficulties of getting news are not decreased today. The snow Is melting and the mountains arc in tnmult, with snow, rocks, trees and earth rolling and plunging down the steep places. It Is hoped to have the telegraph line to Scenic Hot Spijinss restored today. i Everett, W ash., March .1. It is now almost certain that the death toll in tho avalanche that carried away two Great Northern trains and seven, steam ' and electric locomotives will rrrtaC-Hgrrryrfnrr--w 'v -Few bellevo that any of the sixty-four sixty-four listed as missing will be found alive, for It Is now more than 18 hours slmo they wore burled beneath the tons of snow and Ice and twisted wreckage that swept over the ledge of the high line and dropped in n twisted heap to the bottom of the can- .yon, 200 feet below. The rescuers themselves arc in a perilous position, for the danger from snowelldes Is not over. Warm winds, atomanlcd by fre-tpicnt fre-tpicnt showers, are working havoc with the loose- snow, which Is 18 feet deep on the level, and frequently ava-binches ava-binches are seen shooting down tho steep slopes Rumors current last, night that one of these avaJanrhos ! has burted the relief party cannot be j confirmed. No news of such a dlsas- I ter has been received at Skkoml.h. the nearest telegraph station to Scenic, and the Great Northern division di-vision offices here have received no word of IL Men who made the trip lo Scenle last nlglir, and who talked with the i.. ivivo s awaiting tellef trains there. . bring back remarkable fates of the mro.sni displayed by survivors who were so fortunate ns to escape the avalanche without serious lnjurv. Mrs. Shelton. wife of the night telegraph operator at "Wellington, and ; Mrs. "Rob" Miles, wife of anglneer. I were aroused by tho noise of the avalanche ava-lanche and worked diligently caring for the wounded until the doctors and nurses came on the first relief train. . W. R. nailey, who keeps the hotel at Welllncton, was Wteged by a I score of half-naked, bleeding men. who asked for clothes to wear so that they might go back in the cold and join In tho rescue work. It now appears that the avalanche, occurred at 1:45 a. in. instead of at 4:30 a. m.. as at first reported. Men who come from the wreck say that the first intimation the passengers passen-gers had of their danger was when the snow swept down upon them ami lifted the cars bodily Into tho air and then dropped them over the precipice. One survivor described the sensation as similar to that felt when on a stomi-tossed ship at sea. A storm was raging and tho lightning light-ning flaring Incessantly at the time of the catastrophe. The men who succeeded suc-ceeded In extricating "themselves from the wreck carried ;on relief work by the electrical Hashes ' On the severed hand of a woman found yesterday was a finger ring Gearing Initials which indicate that It was worn by Miss Katherine O'Reilly of Spokane, who is hmong the missing. miss-ing. The exact number of dead will not be known for weeks not until tho snow, which Is more than forty feet deep in the canyon, has melted. Wqrkmen digging in the snow and wreckage report the finding of dismembered dis-membered bodies, screred arms and bauds. FTequcntlv the first intimation intima-tion tbat thev are digging near a body comes when" tbey .uncover a large patch of blood-red anow. ' Undertakers' supplies nnd. more luen werrt -6i1C6h". rM train early todav. The bodies will be embalmed tied Kept at WeMnzton until the rall-road'llne rall-road'llne is open: as It-la Impracticable Impractic-able t6 -bring them out on sledges. When the snow, which blocks the tracks, will b-5 cleared away l8 uncertain. uncer-tain. A largo, force of men Is attack- , Ing the drift on the -wemt side, and snow plows are being brought from North Dikotft to be used In opening the line from the cet " , Dead Wrapped In B'ankeU. The bodies of the dead at WcIIIot-Un WcIIIot-Un arc wrapped 1u blaakeu and laid |