Pitkin, Colorado Snowslide
February 20, 1897
COLORADO SNOWSLIDES.
Pitkin Miner Killed.
Denver, Feb. 20,-- A special to the
Republican from Pitkin, Col. Says: A snow slide
this morning near the Cleopatra mine killed
MARTIN MENTLY
and seriously injured
J. W. Bingham. Two other men,
Frank McCarty
and Mike Mammon,
were also caught in the slide, but escaped with
only slight bruises.
The men were asleep in the cabin when the slide
came. The slide was 800 or 400 feet wide. It
swept away the cabin and inmates, burying them
under several feet of snow and debris.
Idaho Statesman, Boise City, ID 21 Feb
1897
Transcribed by Audrey. Thank you,
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