Mining Review
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2011-09-02
issued: 1899-02-11
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note: 'I , it .<< /i ,���������" VOL 2. NO. 41. SANDOH, B. C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1899. FIVE CENTS. Il'iSSlIlI,, Un Avalanche of Dry Snow Started ������������������ by the Wind. .; Later details of thc catastropho at -vtoss' peak, Rogers'.Pass, are as follows : ) Thc slide, was composed of dry snow ���������jitarted bv the wind. The station, Ji-oundhotise and buildings, which were [('carried away, were situated between two sheds. The avalanche came down lhe track of an old s'ido from the '^northwest with appalling force and ,)rapidity and buried the building's and 'unfortunate inmates without allowing lany chanoc of escape. All the bodies were recovered without great dilli- \culty, except that of W. Gator, who 'was not found up to flute of writing. The appearance of the bodies of the two little children indicated that they 5,had been sull'ocalod by the snow. At /the time ofthe accident JErs. Cati"tr ".was milking a cake. She wns thrown '���������lagainst a hot stove and badly burned, j-besides being wound-d by a knife "���������which she had in her hand, Thc ap- ���������i'poiii'.uico of Ridley, tin; wiper, imli- LNcatcd that he had been struck on ihe *���������back of the head. He was in a small shack alone at tho timed the acci- fj dent. Frank Carson, the night oper- 1} ator, wns asleep in bed and whs smoth- 1? ereil. Thc bodies of the Gator family S\ are to be removed to Bowmanville, Ifi'.Onl, and nidlcy is to be buried at New Westminster. I* _. ��������� igff^ IjNew Process tor Treating Gold Ores. \y Considerable attention is at present, * being attracted to n new process I bromo-ehlorino mill whicli is being \built for the Golconda mine, near '*-' Baker City, Oregon, it the process i proves a juucuas it will imi'-o a great difference iu the mining operations of 'the north went. A I'..roe ot stonc- maions and mechanics is constructing this mill for tlm owners of the Gol- L condu, J.-G. and .1. T. Knglish of Dans- ville, Illinois. The mill is on the slope of a mount…
note: Print Run: 1897-1903 Frequency: Weekly
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Sandon (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0183203
language: English
lat: 49.975556
long: -117.227222
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Sandon B.C. : Cliffe and Son
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