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Show THREE LIVES LOST. Special to The Denver News. Crested Bl'tte, Colo , March 13. Another snow slide has occurred near here which has again plunged the town into sadiress and gloom. S C Robinson Atu mtt MrCllIliilllh rump toun fr.wn 1'itisbur this morning and reported that ' they had been uo to the Jacob Strader i mine to see how the miners there were getting along. They had to tunnel forty ftet to get to the Ctthins at the mouth of the tunnel and tiien could find no traces of the men. Thtie were three men at woik llicie, and they had been up there since Irtsi tall. There is no eflort being made as yet to fine the bodies.as thev had evidently, become liightened by the terrible snow tall of the past three weeks and were preparing to have. Everything was packed snugly. The tools. bellows,dri:ls and buckeis were stowed away in the tunnel and the blankets and all their household articles were snugly rolled up and packed away in the cabin. The woiking clothes were hanging on the wali in the ca; in, and they had put on I their good clothes, their snow shoes x eie gone and everything showed that they had abandoned the cabin. The whiJe country for miles had slid and the chances are that they were caught on the way to Pittsburg, which is only two miles distant' Knowing all this one can readily see tha't it is utterly useless to try to find them, as they may have been caught any time in the past two weeks. If there was any hope of rescuing them, dozens ot men stand ready to go at the risk of their own lives. It is learned that a large party will start up Irom here Monday to make a thorough search of Poverty gulch from Pittsburg to the Strad.-r. |