GREAT SNOWSLIDE.
mining camp, overwhelmed (Per li.M.S. Sonoma al Auckland. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8
A despatch from Nelson, British Columbia, dated December 27, tells a sad story or a snow-slide which overwhelmed the men of the Mollie Gibson mine on Christmas night. The mine is approximately eight thousand feet above sea level. Above it is a rocky ridge, then an immense glacier half a mile wide, then some bare ragged peaks. The slide started from the peak, swung around the cliff sheltering the buildings, and struck the bankhouse endways, sweeping jt and its occupants down a dry canyon. Of nineteen in the building ten escaped, more or less injured. Four survivors spent the night in the snow, wrapped in blankets. Would-be rescuers have not been able to reach the imprisoned men, ano it is believed that these must all starve or freeze to death.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 811, 28 January 1903, Page 3
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