The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 2, 1910, Page 1

THE SEATTLE 1 ; , 12, NO. 6 WRVIVOR SAYS SIXTY-FIVE WE | HERE IS DEATH HILL, WHICH SENT T ONE CAN BE LIVE NOW HE SAYS A Down and Relief Train Is Lost Beyond . ish—Railroad Officials Admit That 23 Missing, Are Conservative Figures. vie ™ Ve re at least 65 passengers on the when our party left. Our party was the tio come out to safety from the stalled train. the number of passengers on the train as through it a hundred times in the week were there. JOHN S. ROGERS. I believe that there were more than 60 pas- on the train when I left. I do not see how them could escape. —GEORGE W. LOVEBERRY. Northern messenger is struggling through this afternoon from Wellington to Scenic with dead in the avalanche. At Scenic the list | d to Skykomish, where it will be put/ for Seattle and made public immediately. d at Traffic Manager Costello's of- this afternoon. same time the company officially announc- | 16 to 20 missing and 12 injured were 's latest figures. and railroad offices were flooded from agonized relatives of those sup- on the train, from early morning. The tely cut off from the world and the knows little more than the public. © wires extend only as far as Skykomish, fl *s are relayed to Scenic Hot Springs. fe to Wellington is an impassable barrier of miles up the steep grade of the mountain. newspaper workers to reach the wreck have been fruitless. Those few who t their way through the snow to the wreck of reach of the wires and unable to give the horror to the waiting thousands. THE MISSING MCNENY, atior id av., Seattle. MAHLER, real estate dealer; residence, 820 E, 45th clung to FREIGHT TRAIN Porter A. Smith, Porter L. Anderson, Brakeman Ross, Assistant Trainmaster W. Herrington, Engineer Osborne, of Seattle; Engineer FP. S$. Martin, of Everett; Engineer Carroll, Engineer Jarnigan, Fireman Dan C. Gilman, Fireman S. A. Bates, Fireman Fred Nelson, Engineer D. Tegtmier, Conductor M. O. White, of Everett; Fireman Mauk, A. G. Mahler, Seattle; John Mackie, Moyie, B. C.; Alex Chissholm, Rossland, B. C.; G. Heron, Van- couver, B. C.; Mr. and Mrs, William May, Chemainus, B. C.; A. Thompson, Presbyterian minister, Bellingham; Mrs. Davis and child, Seattle. (By Staff Special.) EVERET ; a swift death in an ava lanche of snow was the fate of more than a score of passengers on the ill-fated train that has held at Wellington at the Marion building; residence, |» beer ey, mith of the Great Northern tunnel for the past week Early yesterday morning the vast mass of snow which the et go. In an up like ch mountainside s and engine, were picked ps in a strear and ME BETHEL, cantractor and civil engineer: residence, ‘ ith av. and Jefferson st., Seattle. mM. A. COVINGTON Of the Washing: g down the canvor f Olympia; mother of L. J.) Children’s Home, Seattle. iad GE PF. DAVIS, 1 Seattle, Renton & South- |" #9929 Americus av., Senttle 8 8. ELTINGE, treasurer Pacific Witidence, 4515 14th av. N. W., Seattle. FOWLER, mail clerk, Seattle FRR) BOHN, mail clerk, Seattle 4 LEMMON, attorney ge BECK, WIFE AND CHILDREN, Pleasanton STARRETT, THR! E CHILDREN, MOTHER €M route to Be gharr iT, conde DIEHL, baggag kane JOHNSON, s: Tr COHN, Everett BOGART, of fon Train No, 27. me D, FOX, raitwa an Coast Pipe men struggled and d others to their stifling do Seattle. Cal 23 DEAD, 25 MISSING, 20 HURT ¥ 1idad, Colo clerk on one of the mail 4 N. 65th st WLEMON and w1 ne unknowr COULD ONLY WAIT [—- BERNAR) ENRY Wir p Co,, lives at I IDEN TnasTER A NGCOY, « US Wai Ki? KNOW in Preman LD. Kuraic , ; sell Cont Thr NOONDAY MO SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1910 instant the train,, - Capt. Spaulding.” “?) HI GILL RE MEETIN on sev TRAINS AND TANDS ONE CENT RE IN DOWN ON HEADS OF HELPLES we ONS OF SNOW ENGERS- PB os STANDING AT DEPOT IN WELLINGTON, WHERE TERRIBLE SLIDE OCCURRED PASSENGE MIGHT HAVE BEEN SAVED Two Men Who Walked Over Stormy Trail From Stall- ed Train to Scenic Ahead of Death-Dealing Ava- lanche, Tell Dramatic Story of the Tragedy. PPPOSOSESO SCHOO SSESOSOSESHSSSOOSOESEOESEOESS AS THIS LEOPARD CHANGED ITS SPOTS? POO PSO POSES OSES ESODESSOEDEDEOEDESODESSSEOOHEOOD® ot SOPSPSESCOSOCSEOCE® Qroceeorocecsoes j | (Frow Seattle Dail “If Mr. Gill me Apr ans to have it im interfering with the r his drink rter right to enforce th place, bawdy house and gar we will mit that May re least one member of the cou Had Mayor Mcore approved every saloon license which has been handed up to him since he became chief executive of the city alone in the Third ward, whose owners are among the supporters of Hi Gili—had Mayor Moore done these things, then we say Mr. Gill would probably have voted for the confirmation of had he let the blind pigs “Had the passengers on the train swept the avalanche at Wellington taken the tra made their way to Scenic Hot Springs. would have been averted.” nto the canyon by with my party and the fearful toss of life eal estate in, and of the Cas- e train ce. THE COUNCIL CLIQUE, HEADED BY IS THE POWER THWARTING THE POLICE |DEPARTMENT IN THE PERFORMANCE OF ITS +DUTY.” nyon had been of the den of vice f the Wwe tun- covered good A he At F THE NOT FATHERS EVERY COUNCIL.” ORIOUS HI GILL CLIQUE, WHICH CORRUPT PROCEEDING IN THE From th the Hi Gill has beer idition has re During time president of th t ouncil a worse c gned in that body than in an previous Seattle council as far is publicly known t THEY Y SIDE V FRI HAV! STAND SIDE B NCH AD (Continued Pag G AT THE Thee gm [Ey Ga re