Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1876 — Snow-Slides in Utah [ARTICLE]

Snow-Slides in Utah

Ih summer, Cotton-wood District is the icMavt Miwtoifte of cool retreats; in Whittle j i(Ry Snow bank, with here aid jjh'a )Ky projection. In the winter sSshineV would, but for the occasional Pfßches oH timber, present a painfnlly dfeling rapanse of white; and as it is, serious snow blindness is not uncommon. When S warm south wind blows for a day ! danger ot snowslides. In January, 1872 L aaow there without days, filling the deepest gulches, into which the gttMMnjmijlinißngiditond-Ihmadenxl essiy. In the circular mountain hoimmßzJbv?, leaving treesjqpklng like mere isiKwtsWßSs: stopped by s*oW- However. In the bestW* ™&'° axf°tergrbuna, all the side ebamhere and vacant ot ora as fast as it *as mined., In a few «(«■? daystUewm came out blight and clear, and though the tnermometer rarely rises above freezingpoint during the flret two months of the year in the higher camps, yet the warmth (feepis to have becd sufficient to looseb the •snow riot yet tightly*bablrett', and place where the slope wife great ihfl the timber notsufthdeilt to bind it, avalanches of from'iWe Wrwehtyfibres dime thunder"irig Into the canons;' sweeping iill ’before them. One dt the largest swept off that J pkH of Aka” City,' Eittl6‘Cottonwood. Hihg 'oil Vive slope. 1 ' Six persoriff were killed bnt- ■ right, either*N-bished 'by the timber of their own cabins or smothered iri*the snow, Aid iianymbre wtoM' or rfx fiiowri, until ralfef • parties.dog them out. One waman was found*>siM;ing tspJaigttt i® (her cabin with 'ft babe in her arms, both dead. The cabin badwlth.rteaditbeavalanktoe, but the mow. pdbred lia atotee .dbo* amd windowa, and* they were frozen or smot&eradi * Thirty-five viiyfifcWote AM* Mtedtitetonthlfc winter by si)OWrßiidrt4vAiJt «u*to*eete one guteh toidbuiMfutdv f«et .mndes packed ice and 3##w-i< »S*areto fw-,theaai f was,useless. But a leugib Jl*i jbmatb of JUuieideprived .their.snowy prison, and the bodies were revealed, fresh and fair as if they had just ceased to hranthp — J_ U Henris in Unv.