Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1898 — MAY NUMBER ONE HUNDRED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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Slxty-NLne Bodies of Victims of Avalanche on the Talyn Trail So Far Recovered. K _ Seattle, Wash., April 11. —Later details received here Sunday from Alaska Increase the horror of the, avalanche in the Chilkat pass instead of lessening it. Sixty-nine dead bodies hav£ thus far been recovered and the names of 150 missing have been reported as unaccounted for. It is barely possible that some of these had succeeded in cross-

ing the pass before the avalanche occurred. A conservative estimate is that between 75 and 100 persons were killed. The work of rescue has continued night and day ever since Sunday week, being gradually more systematized, and consequently meeting with better results. Thus far work has been confined to the outskirts of the slide in the hope of rescuing those who are injured but not yet dead. The main body of the avajauche, which is estimated to be 50 feet deep* and 150 yards long, has not yet been touched. If there are any bodies underneath they cannot be rescued in time to save life. Four men were taken out alive after they had been buried for 19 hours. Eye-witnesses say that the great mountain of snow, ice, earth and rocks rolled down the dizzy Taiya heights with the speed and rumble of a mighty train, burying beneath its weight scores of human beings. To those who were in the path of thd destroyer escape was impossible. They were overwhelmed in an instant by the great weight of this mass of matter. In places the snow was stacked up from 30 to 50 feet in height. Tn nearly every ease death appears to have resulted from suffocation. The bodies of 14 were brought to this city on the returning vessels. There were two distinct avalanches, the main one about midway between Stone House and the Seales. The first, while resulting in three deaths, was a miniature affair as compared with the second.