Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 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 but to ascertain if any harm had come to them. On arriving at the fat, where two cabins had stood, in which the men lived, Sanderson found everything bnr;ed 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 speciartmin from Leadville carried a re ief party. Arriving at the point nearest the mine the party was met by a crowd of excited miners, Who informed them that itwas useless to attempt to reach the mine th’.ougb the wilderness of soft snow, even with snowshoes, at that time of day. The next day the searching party beg in work, and found ten bodies iSJithe < abin. - They had been crushed to death by the snowslide. The victims arc Martin Borden and bro her Sylvester, of Noya Scotia; Horace W. Matthews aild brother Jesse, of Iowa; John Lock and John Burns, of England; Charles Richards, of Nova Scot a; Chris Harvey, of Leadville; Robert Campbell of Ped Cliff, and John Burns, cf San Francisco. ■ Pennsylvania has furnished eight Ministers to the Russian Court: George M. Dallas, Benjamin Rush. James Buchanan. Albert Gallatin. Welsh, of York; William Wilkins, ex-Sena*or Cameron, and ex-Gov. Curtin. The number of railroad accidents in the United States during 1884 is given at 1,191. Of these, 445 were collisions, and 681 derailments; 65 are reported, os “various." There we e in all 389 persons killed and 8,760 injured. Ex-President Arthur is still suffering from ah attack of sciatica.