A FRIGHTFUL SCENE.
A ten-mule team, drawing lumber, while coming from the vicinity of the lake, went over the grade near the head of King's canon. The driver sprang from the saddle, thereby saving his life. He then stood still, a horrified and speechless witness to one of the most terrible scenes possible to imagine. Tha mules, wagon and lumber pitched in one confused, rolling mass, nearly 2000 feet into the bottom of the gorge, wild cries from the crushed and mangletl animals rending the sir as tbey were hurled madly down the steep mountain side, until when nearing the bottom, and life becoming extinct, the agonizing Bounds ceased, and all became silent as death. The man says that after the first hundred yarda had been passed the entire mass became hidden in a great cloud of snow torn up and scattered through the air, but that he could distinctly hear all eouoda proceeding from the white cloud as it rolled swiftly onwardp, until it struck the bottom of the canon with a crash like lhat of an earthquake.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XL, Issue 186, 28 July 1876, Page 4
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179A FRIGHTFUL SCENE. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XL, Issue 186, 28 July 1876, Page 4
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