| Summary: | Seattleits May Be Lost In Disaster:Horace C. Cooper Escapes Death In Moose Pass Avalanche,Leads Search For Others Feared Trapped. SEATTLEITES MAY BE LOST IN DISASTER Horace C. Cooper Escapes Death in Moose Pass Avalanche, Leads Search for Others Feared Trapped Escaping death from an avalanche of snow, Horace C. Cooper of Seattle today was leading search parties into the Moose Pass region of Alaska where six men were killed in the same slide last night. Five others employed by Cooper on a placer mining project may have been trapped in the mammoth earth and snowslide. Some of Cooper's employes were Seattle men, but most were from California, Oregon and Norway, according to Mrs. Cooper, 1028 Bellevue Court. Mrs. Cooper said she had learned of her husband's escape, but did not know the names of the men buried beneath the avalanche. This is her husband's fourth season in Alaska placer mining operations. "I'll hear from him before the day is over," said Mrs. Cooper. The Associated Press said the slide was two miles long and a mile wide, and twenty-five feet deep. Road crews and all available men were rushed into the search for the bodies. The Cooper operations are on Lynx Creek, sixty-seven miles from Seward.
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