Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1882 — Forty Snow-Slides in Two Canyons. [ARTICLE]

Forty Snow-Slides in Two Canyons.

On the 15th inst. a snow-slide occurred in Lake canyon, burying many persons, four of whom were killed. The-e bodies were recovered and left on the snow, and were again buried by another slide the following night. Between last Wednesday and Saturday more than forty snow slides occurred in Lake and Mill creek canyons. Christian Habletzel was buried beneath eight feet of snow for nineteen hours. He was exhumed and found to be still alive, but there is faint hope of his recovery. At Tioga district a snow-slide buried twenty-one persons. All were dug out, but several are fatally injured. At Mill creek a snow-slide covered up ten people, -five of whom died. The storm impeded all travel. The stage from Hawthorne to Bodie, a distance of thirty-eight miles, was thirty-six hours on the road, and the stage from Bridgeport to Bodie was six hours making the last half mile into town.