Show E EN MINERS KILLED IN SLIDE AVALANCHE SWEEPS DOWN ON BUILDING smothering AND CRUSHING CRUSH INGMEN MEN men were sleeping ping when monster de strikes building Cirr carrying ying occupants ts down A mountainside halley idaho fifteen men dead fifteen others missing is the result of an avalanche which swept down the mountain and des destroyed troied the mine b bunkhouse unk house compressor and supply I 1 house bouse of the federal mining smelter company at the north star mine on february 26 25 forty five men were sleeping in the bunkhouse bunk bouse when a n monster without the slightest warning struck the building trapping the men and carrying them down the mountain mountain thrown from their beds and battered against the walls of the tumbling building the compressor and the supply house word were hit first and the bunkhouse piled on top of them the bunkhouse was a two story building about feet and when rescuing crews arrived only a small part of one corner was visible news of the tragedy was at once communicated to halley and every available man was rushed to tile the as el stance of the imprisoned men fifteen of whom were dug out of the bunkhouse with with only slight scratches the bodies of the fifteen dead were yso also recovered here ir the slide carried the bunkhouse oft off the lower floor leaving the floor in its original position the building being crushed to pieces |