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Charles B. Counts

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Charles B. Counts

Birth
Russell County, Virginia, USA
Death
13 Jan 1906 (aged 49)
Idaho, USA
Burial
Bonneville County, Idaho, USA
Plot
L-35-31-1
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Salt Lake Herald (Salt Lake City, Utah)
January 21, 1906 (Sunday)

"SNOW CAME RUSHING DOWN.

Short Line Surveyor Caught in Slide Up the South Fork of Snake River.

Special to The Herald.

Rigby, Ida[ho], Jan. 20. Reports have reached Rigby from up the south of Snake river to the effect that one of the men, Charles B. Counts by name, connected with one of the Oregon Short Line surveying gangs, was caught in a snowslide and killed. He was going up the canyon with a load of supplies and when he reached the point where the slide occurred, his horses stopped and refused to go any further. After trying to urge them on, Mr. Counts got out of his sleigh and went ahead to see what was the matter, when the slide broke loose and came rushing down the mountainside, engulfing Mr. Counts and his team, and carried them about 300 feet further down the mountain. The unfortunate man was under about eight feet of snow and was dead when discovered. His brother was near by working in the same corps of survey surveyors, and helped to rescue the dead man. He was a resident of Jackson's Hole where he had lived for about nine years, and was 49 years years of age. He was unmarried and on account of the deep snow and difficult traveling, his brother decided to bury him near the scene of the accident, which was done. The balance of the men engaged in surveying decided to move camp, and work in a section of the canyon where they would not te exposed to such danger." END
Contributor: Steve Harrison (46893586) • [email protected]
Salt Lake Herald (Salt Lake City, Utah)
January 21, 1906 (Sunday)

"SNOW CAME RUSHING DOWN.

Short Line Surveyor Caught in Slide Up the South Fork of Snake River.

Special to The Herald.

Rigby, Ida[ho], Jan. 20. Reports have reached Rigby from up the south of Snake river to the effect that one of the men, Charles B. Counts by name, connected with one of the Oregon Short Line surveying gangs, was caught in a snowslide and killed. He was going up the canyon with a load of supplies and when he reached the point where the slide occurred, his horses stopped and refused to go any further. After trying to urge them on, Mr. Counts got out of his sleigh and went ahead to see what was the matter, when the slide broke loose and came rushing down the mountainside, engulfing Mr. Counts and his team, and carried them about 300 feet further down the mountain. The unfortunate man was under about eight feet of snow and was dead when discovered. His brother was near by working in the same corps of survey surveyors, and helped to rescue the dead man. He was a resident of Jackson's Hole where he had lived for about nine years, and was 49 years years of age. He was unmarried and on account of the deep snow and difficult traveling, his brother decided to bury him near the scene of the accident, which was done. The balance of the men engaged in surveying decided to move camp, and work in a section of the canyon where they would not te exposed to such danger." END
Contributor: Steve Harrison (46893586) • [email protected]

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Born in VA 1856. Killed in snowslide. January 13, 1906

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He may have been buried in the Alpine Cemetery in Wyoming and then was moved to Ririe-Shelton Cemetery when the Palisades Dam was built.

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