TERRIBLE DISASTER

Otago Witness, Issue 2921, 9 March 1910, Page 25

TERRIBLE DISASTER

NEW YORK. March ?

An avalanche the «lone of Cascade Mountain at Fver°tt. in Washington iStat-e. burying two trains deep under the snow.

It, was six hours before the rescuers arrived.

Twenty, dead* have so far been recovered, and many injured. Twenty-five are still missing.

March 3. Sirtv persons perished in the avalanche at Everett.

. The Everett expresses were snowbound for seven days. The avalanche hurled them a distance of fOOft. and buried them in the bottom of a canyon. The avalanche was a mile loner, and "devastated portion of the town of Wellin.'^ton.

The teleerabh lines were destroyed for 15 miles round.

An escaped ria.'wpnger -brousrht the first news to Snohomish. Several passengers were s<tved throiip-h sheltering in the hotel in«teftdi-of. remaining in the train.

The nurses and doctors sent by train from Everett wore unable to pet within 15 miles of Wellington, which is covered "deep in snow.

March 4

Three of the rescuers arriving from the scene of the disaster renort that the dead and missing number 64. There is

! little likelihood of further rescues, as the i trains are- burieS under 40ft of enow and • rock debris, and weeks will be required j to dig them out

March 6

Six hundred Japanese, Italians, and others are working the rotatory ploughs which are clearing the snowslide from the railway westward of Roger's Pass. • A fresh snowslide killed 50.

March 7.

Ninety-two persons were killed at Roger's Pass while engaged in clearing the snowslide that buried two trains.