Amelia Clark could not have known that her trust in Lillian's new employers would save the girl's life.
It held that the rockfall had wiped out the entire town, save for one little girl, dubbed "Frankie Slide," who, according to various accounts, was found alive on a rock, on a bale of hay, in a crib, in an attic, in a pile of debris - or in her dead mother's arms. The river of rock spilled over the valley and about 150 m up the opposite slope before coming to a rest. Realizing that the Spokane Flyer, a passenger train, was due in from Lethbridge at any moment, Choquette scrambled for two kilometres over jagged boulders as big as boxcars. It's likely that meltwater entered fissures at the top of the mountain, then froze and expanded the cracks. Your message has been sent.
For his efforts, the CPR presented the brakeman with a $25 cheque and a letter of commendation. On the night of the slide, a cold snap hit. Around 110 million tonnes (120 million short tons) of limestone rock slid down Turtle Mountain.
Choquette reached the other side just in time to flag down the Flyer before it would have plowed into the limestone rubble. "I know a lot people say they would never live where we do," says Roy. Then there's William Warrington, one of the trapped miners, who had to be lifted out on a plank because he fractured his leg while digging to freedom. His wife and six of their children were crushed to death in the family cottage. Your message has been sent. See and hear first-hand what happened the night Turtle Mountain fell. But to the southeast of town, the rockfall decimated a row of miners' cottages, randomly killing some of the occupants while sparing others.
Her story inspired the tragedy's most enduring myth. Three of the miners who came to the surface shortly before 4 a.m. for their lunch break perished in the slide. Fifteen-month old Marion Leitch was thrown from her house and found in a pile of hay, the one most likely to be the "boulder baby." The actual death count might be even higher. A lifelong resident of the area bordering the CROWSNEST PASS, the 43-year-old Field grew up hearing the story of a great uncle who narrowly escaped one of the deadliest natural disasters in Canadian history. "But I don't think you ever get over something like that."
Every geological survey that's been done on Turtle Mountain has come to the same conclusion: another massive rockfall is just a matter of time. A rush of clean air greeted him as sunlight pierced his eyes. Lillian's mother and six siblings died in the slide. That story is untrue, but it is loosely grounded in fact. Shortly after dawn on April 29, a rescue party sifted through the rubble of their three-room cottage.
Warrington emerged only to discover his wife and seven children had perished in the slide. There were 23 survivors, mostly children. Geologists say a combination of factors caused the Frank Slide. In March 1903, the region experienced heavy snowfalls, followed by unusually high temperatures in late April. In the aftermath of the slide, stories of survival were miraculous, and have generated at least one urban myth. There was more snow than usual during the winter of 1902-03. For that reason, Field and others have pressed - so far, in vain - to have a sophisticated monitoring system that could give residents and officials fair warning that disaster is approaching.
The mine was re-opened within weeks and the buried section of railway was rebuilt.
Three little girls survived the slide. The sheered mountain and a vast field of rubble are reminders of Canada's biggest rockslide.
Realizing that one untouched coal seam reached the surface higher on the mountain, the miners doggedly dug their way upward through the soft coal. One problem is that proper seismic and tracking equipment could cost up to $1 million. The Frank Slide Interpretive Centre, in southern Alberta's spectacular Crowsnest Pass, overlooks Canada's deadliest rockslide.
Anyone who has heard of the Frank Slide has heard of the baby girl, the only survivor, found on the boulder. "Turtle Mountain isn't evil or anything. By nightfall, only 12 bodies had been recovered and taken to the temporary morgue at the Frank schoolhouse. Weather may have also played a role. Thank you. Another 50 or more men were said to have pitched tents on the valley bottom days before the slide while they looked for work in town. Signing up enhances your TCE experience with the ability to save items to your personal reading list, and access the interactive map.THERE IS PROBABLY no one alive who knows more about the horrific But the lessons are not just about the past. Field still marvels at the cruel ironies of that day. Lillian Clarke, 15, worked late at the hotel in Frank on April 28, so her employer offered her a room for the night.
Take the Leitch family.
Three little girls survived the slide. "Warrington went on to remarry and have other children," says Field. The 2000 metre high mountain was thrust up from the Rocky Mountains 70 to 80 million years ago, overriding structurally weaker deposits of limestone and coal. Lillian's mother, Amelia, had never trusted the hotel's previous owners and would never let her eldest child stay overnight, no matter how late she worked. Gladys was the last survivor of the slide when she died in 1995 in Bellevue, Washington. On April 29, 1903, at 4:10 am, in 90 seconds, 82 million tonnes of limestone sheered off the east face of Turtle Mountain and roared down into Crowsnest Pass. Chunks of rock, some as big as houses, sent off sparks as they struck each other.
Lillian Clarke, 15, worked late at the hotel in Frank on April 28, so her employer offered her a room for the night. The Blackfoot and Kutenai people knew Turtle Mountain as "the mountain that moves." The provincial Frank Slide Interpretive Centre, which opened in 1985, draws about 50,000 visitors annually. This labor-of-love pizza has to be started 1-2 days in advance, but the results will transport you to the famed pizzerias of New Haven, Conn.
Fernie Watkins was found in the debris. Thank you.
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