Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1885 — BURIED ALIVE. [ARTICLE]

BURIED ALIVE.

Frightful Result of a Snow-Slide in Colorado. [Denver special.] A telegram from Tennessee Pass says news reached there at midnight of a snowslide near that place ir which eleven miners are supposed to have perished. The men had been working in the Homestake Mine, and, nothing having been heard of them for a fortnight, Frank Sanderson started out to ascertain if any harm had come to them. On arriving at the flat, where two cabins had stood, in which the men lived, Sanderson found everything buried by a deep snow-slide, that evidently came down in the dead of night. Not a sign of life was to be seen in any direction. A special train from Leadville carried a re ief party. Arriving at the point nearest the mice the party was met by a crowd of excited miners, who informed them that it was useless to attempt to reach the mine through the wilderness of soft snow, even with snowshoes, at that time of day. The next day the searching party begun work, and found ten bodies in the cabin. They had been crushed to death by the snowslide. The victims are Martin Borden and bro her Sylvester, of Nova Sootia; Horace W. Matthews and brother Jesse, of Iowa; John Loot nnd John Burns, of England; Charles Richards, of Nova Scotia; Chris Harvey, of Leadville; Robert Campbell of F p d Cliff, and John Bams, of San Franolsoo.