Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1910 — CAUGHT IN SNOWSLIDE. [ARTICLE]

CAUGHT IN SNOWSLIDE.

Dr. Merrill’s Family Have Narrow Escape From Death On G. N. R. R. Dr. W. W. Merril returned Monday from spending a short time with his wife and daughter in Chicago. The latter had just arrived in Chicago from southern California where they had been spending the winter. They returned by way of Spokane, Wash., and started for Chicago on the Great Northern Railroad, and were held up by one of the numerous avalanches which has made so much trouble in the past few weeks for that railroad. They were carried back to Spokane by another train, having only gotten about thirty miles west of there, and started for the east on another roacj. This train was carried from the track by another great snowslide and all but the last three care were burned. They lost nearly all of their baggage, but finally reached Chicago, many hours late.